Staff appraisals have become a bit of a regular thing over the last ten years or so, especially in larger companies. But, while it is a very useful tool to find out where your staff is going right (or wrong,) it can become a time consuming job to oversee, conduct and analyze. Appraisd is a new business management application that offers easy to use, online staff appraisal templates and performance and feedback reports to monitor your team's progress. This staff appraisal app is built to serve both large and small businesses and even offers the chance to import your own ... Read more
London is a very big city and on any given week there is something like 600 concerts to choose from featuring everything from Irish folk to top 40 to the very best classical orchestras in the world. There's also around 30 different theatrical performances playing not to mention the 11000 bars and restaurants at your disposal. So if you are a visitor to the 'Big Smoke,' as it used to be known, it's almost a full time job to research where to go. You could pick up a copy of Timeout and a bunch of other mags or log on ... Read more
It's a bit sad really. The fact is, the days of the spreadsheet as we know it, are pretty numbered. While they have served us well, they can be a little cumbersome and better results and analysis can be achieved using other methods. Whether we are using them as an inventory at home for books and cd's or in a business sense to log personnel details or research documents it makes more search now to use a data management application instead. Flextory is an easy to use Software as a Service management system where you can create a spreadsheet for ... Read more
If you have just the one domain that you monitor it's not too much of a problem to see that it is running 24/7. But when you have multiple sites it's verging on becoming a full-time job to try keep track of them all. If your site is monetized and has some downtime while you aren't looking then it is costing you money and nobody wants that to happen. Dominder is a new internet management application that lets you monitor all your domains from one single easy to navigate control. This makes your workload somewhat lighter and gives you more ... Read more
To steal from David Fincher's excellent film Fight Club, what's the first rule for your website? The answer is, of course, to never have any downtime. When your server or browser is down and you don't know about it, there's a pretty good possibility that your visitors will go elsewhere and possibly not come back. Appfail is a cloud-based error monitoring system that enables online businesses to discover, diagnose and track failures in their websites and immediately let's you know about it with an email or message straight to your device. Organizations invest significant resources to encourage customers and ... Read more
Developers Bizelo have made their name by creating accounts, supply and business management applications, so they know what they are doing when it comes to delivering a good, solid and innovative set of business tools. Centralized Inventory is an easy way to manage your stock inventory across all your stores and warehouses whether they are Main Street retail or online stores. And coming in at under twenty five bucks per month it could be the best way of knowing what you have in stock and what you might be almost running out of. Bizelo are well known for their ... Read more
Using Invokit is a bit like hiring a time and motion study for your business without your staff getting upset by the intrusion. This set of business management tools is aimed at smartening up the way work gets done from the creation of your product catalog right through to the point where you get paid. It offers a complete customer relations management platform and is totally accessible from your mobile phone wherever you are in the world and whenever you need to access it. Invokit is a business application that lets you track sales and easily create estimates and ... Read more
Knoodle derives it's name from a combination of Knowledge and Noodle - as in 'using one's noodle' or, the art of creative thinking. What it is, to back up that idea, is an intelligent union of old school outcomes and new technology. Knoodle delivers a comprehensive set of learning tools designed to keep everybody up-to-date and moving your business in the right direction. It uses your previously created videos, presentations and documents to inform and manage your business ecosystem of employees, customers and partners Knoodle provides a cloud-based social presentation, training and learning management system in a single application. ... Read more
Do you remember those organizers that you always used to HAVE to have before the new academic year began to plan out proceedings. It had great little personalized sections with pockets for all sorts of things and came enclosed in a very cool leather-looking pouch. Student T.A. Is the modern day equivalent to the old organizer. It's essential that you have one and it's the perfect gift for the students amongst us for balancing your academic, social and personal lives. Student T.A. is up there with the best personal organizers on the app market and it's absolutely free. The ... Read more
Do many of you keep your professional accomplishments up to date on a regular basis or do you only update them when you are applying for a new job? Personally, it's the latter I'm afraid but I totally agree that it would be far more organized and sensible to keep an ongoing record. WorkSimple Individual Edition is a free business and portfolio application where you can detail your working career and then adds a bit of a LinkedIn-style social side to share your efforts. WorkSimple's Personal Edition is the easiest way to manage your career. It's a simple professional ... Read more