Even when your whole workforce is situated on site it's still not the easiest thing to get them to collaborate efficiently. They might be working in the adjacent room and still not be able to get their message across to an individual or the team. Thats why so many companies are using intranet social networks to keep everyone on board. Now imagine how difficult it must be when some of your team members are scattered over different areas of the country or on the other side of the world. Sqwiggle is a video workroom that is always turned on ... Read more
There are plenty of businesses where customers virtually demand to have an ongoing relationship. By that I mean occupations like real estate agents, networkers and financial advisers. It's almost as if your client is sitting on the phone waiting for your call and, if they don't get it, they are either going to be mighty peeved at you for not keeping in touch with them or they will take their business elsewhere. Either way you can lose a good client for life or, at the very least, a sale. Musubi takes the difficulty out of relationship building and gives you ... Read more
More and more businesses these days are adopting the idea of an internal business social collaboration network to aide communication in the workplace. For a start, most people are pretty familiar with the social network concept and use it on a regular basis so the learning factor is minimal. But secondly, it allows your workers to communicate in individual teams as well as across the whole business and negates the need for endless emails and time spent in meetings. Communifire is a new enterprise social collaboration application that makes for superb real-time communication between your staff while still retaining control ... Read more
We seem to have reached a point in software and app development where it is now as equally important to present a user friendly platform that people will feel comfortable with and actually use rather than the old way of packing your product with neverending features - many of which never get used. And with online marketers now being inundated with business as more and more customers divert their advertising dollars towards the smartphone and tablet revolution of the last couple of years, it is more important than ever to be able to plan, organize and track all your projects. ... Read more
Fancy yourself as the next Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry? Cutetown won't quite give you the same freedom of expression as some of the buildings created by either of those great two architects but it does provide a hell of a lot of fun. The app is a beautiful 3D map editor that allows you to transform GPS maps into highly detailed three-dimensional maps of real places on iPad. Its a bit like using a digital version of Lego, I guess. At the moment, as the app is in its early stages, there are only a few places to ... Read more
There have been some great cloud-based project management applications released over the last year. We, at the FeedMyApp offices particularly liked AtTask Mobile App, Bitrix24 and MYCO Suite and now we have another to join them. Volerro is a comprehensive set of powerful project management tools that goes under the byline of Teamwork Simplified and it's easy to see why. The app makes easy collaboration within teams and lets you create, refine and distribute every type of content securely and smoothly. it is available for web browser and the incredibly work-friendly iPad. Volerro is simplifying the way teams create, ... Read more
The RealtimeBoard is the digital equivalent of carrying a white board around with you. The difference between the days of the white board and now though are vast. With this 'whiteboard' there is a neverending canvas, pictures and illustrations as well as copious amounts of rich media tools to create your vision. But the biggest twist between then and now is that you can share and collaborate with team members in real time making RealtimeBoard a great app for creative teams. RealtimeBoard is a new application for creation of projects and collaboration with colleagues in real time - it's ... Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation have built a reputation over the last twelve years as being an excellent interactive reference for everything from Civil War battles to reality TV shows. The whole idea of Wiki being to allow everybody and everybody to input information into the system. Every year of their existence the Foundation have released a new project and Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project. It's a free, worldwide, online travel guide and, like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads and is built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Regular FeedMyApp ... Read more
Design is such an arbitrary science that it's never easy to get two parties to agree 100% on the way a project should look. When the two parties are the client and designer that can provide problems. When a designer sits down to have a first-up meeting with the client it is to thrash out all the basic details of what needs to be done and how the design should look. But how can both sides have all the criteria in front of them so that both teams are on the same page all the way down the line? Osmosis ... Read more
The bottom line for this collaboration and business application is that it provides the tools to create a community where you can videoconference, share files and collaborate with others online all in one place. This makes it perfect for online teaching whether it be a small local group or a full worldwide audience. BigMarker is a cloud-based mix of social network and collaborative credentials and is a great 'all-in-one' solution to your online classroom needs. Lets face it, any community can make a visible and lasting mark on the world, the classroom, the office or any other sort of ... Read more