5 Web 2.0 Tools to Immediately Make You a Better Manager
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September
At Promethius, we’ve done a whole lot of searching for ideas to improve our service and our customers’ experience. After much experimentation and testing, I feel very confident recommending these tools to any business manager:
- Basecamp - This very intuitive project-management software by 37signals is a very affordable way to immediately gain control over multiple projects and staff members. It even has restricted login functionality for clients as well.
- Zoho CRM - One of the great stable of products coming out of Zoho. It’s free for up to three users and is quite affordable as you add more users.
- Netvibes - If you do one thing this quarter, get netvibes and learn how to use it! A savvy manager will make it his browser Home page and will fill it with relevant RSS feeds, bookmarks, gmail and so much more.
- Omnidrive - This universal web storage platform lets you easily store, access and share files of any size over the web.
- Google Analytics - Google is at it again with its great web stats tool. Just drop a little code behind each page of your website and you’re off to the races. This tool is especially good if you are running an Adwords campaign.
Why should you worry about bettering your managerial skills? Ron over at Buzzoodle had a great post yesterday about why this should be your number one concern!
Tony
Tony Valle
Promethius Consulting, LLC
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3. James Clark | September 28th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Great list. We are power users of BaseCamp, NetVibes and Google Analytics. I’ll have to check out the others.
I’ve got to mention a product we love and that is BlinkSale.com. Great online invoicing system for our firm. It’s really easy, sends auto reminders of late payments and gives people the ability to pay via PayPal.
James
4. tvalle | September 28th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Blinksale!! Good one James! I’ve heard a lot of great stuff about it. I wonder, does it integrate with accounting apps like Quickbooks?
Tony
5. mindserve | September 29th, 2006 at 6:31 am
You may want to consider a world famous graphic organizer as well. It’s called Inspiration Software and it used by more than 16M K-12 & their teachers in North America alone.
The secret? It’s used by thousands of business and professionals. Why? It’s clear, crisp interface allows for both linear and graphical respresentations of WBS or ideas, or just about anything you need to think about or explain. Try using it to chart a project flow. It’s more ‘real’ than real.