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Friday, July 23, 2010
BP8_Chatter
Chatter (http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/) is Salesforce’s new tool for business to collaborate online. Whether you need to collaborate about projects or customer service it allows you to talk to everyone at work in real time.
I would love to use Salesforce’s Chatter for team collaboration. It allows you to create groups within your organization for team projects and post up-to-date comments on projects ongoing. You can share documents with each other and give real time feedback instead of waiting for an email that everyone in the group needs to respond to. No more forgetting to hit “reply all” in an email or forgetting someone in the group when emailing important information. You can even bring in other Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And for people always on the go there is a mobile version so you can continue to get up-to-date feeds on what is happening with the team.
Project management can be streamlined, assigning tasks, posting dues dates, and uploading your work to the group’s collaboration page and most importantly it all safe and secure. It is important to be able to talk to everyone on your team especially when they all work different schedules for from different locations. To have everything in one location is wonderful and you can belong to more than one group.
My organization currently uses Salesforce but we have not taken advantage of this new tool “Chatter” but I believe it would make us more effective with communication within the organization.
The Cost... it is a subscription based service and it varies depending on how many people you have in your organization and what there needs are.Monday, July 19, 2010
BP4_Issuu
Issuu.com is another great web 2.0 tool. This tool is great for publishing presentations, student reports, books, magazines, etc. It is a free service but of course if you want to be able to customize all your publications without the Issuu logo you can upgrade to Issuu Pro for a monthly fee of $19. Once you create a login you are all set to create your own personal library. You can upload your own documents or add other Issuu publications to your library which all can be stored in one location. Issuu will also recommend publications to you that might interest you.
Your library could look something like this:
Upload any pdf document to share or make it a private document that you distribute out.
Uploading a document is easy, just click on upload document and tell about your document, like the name of the document, who it is for, keywords that describe the document, and a short description. Additional features that you can add to the uploaded documents are audio, share (email) button, download, rate it and add comments. I found that uploading a document is very simple but it does take a little more time than what the website says. It took me about 4 minutes to upload a document and then it converts it to the easy online viewing.
Here is an example of an uploaded document:
Issuu also has different embedded codes depending where you want to share the file such as Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, and Joomal
One of my favorite features is the statistics page. After your document has been distributed you can track how many people viewed the document, what day they viewed it and how many pages where viewed.
I really like this web 2.0 tool and think it has great potential for me to use this tool. This tool can come in handy for sales and marketing. This allows me to create an online catalog that has the ability to be emailed or added to our website. I give this tool a thumbs up!
Friday, July 2, 2010
BP3_Spicynodes
Spicynodes - http://www.spicynodes.org/
What is a Spicynode you might ask…a Spicynode is a interactive graphic organizer. They can add interaction to a website or in the classroom. By adding a Spicynode to a website it allows the organization to clearly state what their product is in a simple way and with the interaction it creates the visitor will be more inclined to stay on the website. So, you might be asking, “Who uses these Spicynodes?” There are a number of different people who could use this tool: Non-Profit Organizations, Designers/Developers, Educators, and Businesses.
Some examples of how the Spicynodes can be uses is as follows:
1. Students could use it to organize their thoughts for studying.
2. Poets could use it to organize their thoughts
3. Researcher could use it to provide a visual aid.
4. Business could use it to add interaction to a website or to add visual aids for a presentation/training session.
This tool is very easy to use and create. There is a draw back to using this web 2.0 tool it is still in the beta form so there are kinks to be work out. If you aren’t afraid to use the tool and provide feedback to the creators then this could be a great find for you. If not, you should wait until they officially launch the tool to start using it.
The cost of this tool is free to individuals but comes with a monthly fee for businesses, which allows the business to have the rights for the use. Included in the monthly fee a business then has the ability can customize the nodemap to match their organization’s style.
Spicynodes would be a great tool for anyone to use!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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