Short-term, Virtual, Collaborative Projects...
Situation: You Need a Lightly Structured Way to Collaborate Virtually --- and Temporarily. Sometimes you need to work with a group of contractors for a short time period. Let's say its an important project, but its happening with people outside of your organization with whom you might never work again. Huddle gives you a quick way to make that happen.It's great for: - brainstorming, using a whiteboard application. - broadcast communications (using blogging tools) - assigning and tracking tasks (via a group calendar and individual task lists) |
Posted on: July 15, 2007 12:58 PM
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Effective Group Task Lists
Situation: You Need a Simple Way to Organize Small Group Activities.  Sometimes you don't need a full-blown PM software package to track things. Especially with smaller operational projects and for people who are more in a team lead position. For those situations, tools exist that are more like a hopped up version of outlook.For example, Project360 is a very simple online collaboration tool that includes: Task Management— task assignments to team members, set start and end dates, priority level, and a clear view of task level status. Milestones—identify and review key accomplishments related to individual tasks. Calendar— a schedule at a glance, highlighting overdue tasks, etc. File Sharing—a shared team repository. Time Tracking—Simple time tracking. (probably redundant to your ordinary timekeeping system) Gantt Chart—The Gantt Chart gives you a visual representation of your project timeline. (just at the task level) Project Templates—This time-saving feature allows you to create projects based on already existing projects. (for projects you engage in repeatedly) General Project Calendar—This feature allows you to see all of your projects in a single calendar. |
Posted on: July 15, 2007 12:35 PM
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More Ways to Find WiFi HotSpots
| Situation: You Need to Get Connected Away from the Office (or Home) In earlier posts, I've written about WeFi and keychain-based WiFi detectors. Here are a couple more options I've run across. WiFiFreeSpot, Like WeFi is another directory that's useful if your good at planning ahead. If planning ahead isnt really your thing, Jwire offers a database or WiFi HotSpots that you can download. That way you can find a "connection" before being "connected". Kensington also produces a really inexpensive (again key chain) WiFi Finder that looks pretty interesting. |
Posted on: July 07, 2007 11:29 PM
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Another Free WEBEX Alternative
Situation: You Need to Conduct an Online PowerPoint Presentation (with no budget) With WEBEX, you can not only only deliver ppt presentations, but also chat, enable audio, record sessions, etc. Slidelive limits its offering to basic (but free) online delivery of PowerPoint presentations - which is what most people want anyway.If you don't have WEBEX, it's not a bad alternative to emailing the file over and saying "now on the next slide..." every 2-3 minutes. Delivering the presentation online gives you more control over the flow of the presentation. The signup on this tool is pretty painless as well. |
Posted on: July 07, 2007 01:32 PM
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Get Your Team Organized - With Little Overhead
Situation: You Need to Have All of Your Project Documentation Organized and No One Has Time To Do It. Foldera is an interesting SAAS (software as a service) product that might change the way you interact with software. In the traditional world we live in, every thing is "me"-centric, meaning I manage everything on my computer. My computer is where:- all of my documents are created - all of my documents are stored - all emai I generate is created and stored. ...then I categorize and organize everything (or hope google desktop indexed it) Foldera allows you to create and store things within the context of a project folder. When you do that, it's automatically stored in a way that relates it (and later versions of "it") to the project itself. This is an interesting approach that's worth a look. There's a cute video on the web site that explains some of the benefits of the software. |
Posted on: July 01, 2007 01:25 AM
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