Boldacious Digital Consultant
Early 4WD landrovers were simple strong vehicles - they broke down but you could usually fix them with spanners and fencing wire.
But modern day cars need sophisticated tools.
Small business (and modern life) are like that now: we need modern sophisticated tools to help run them.
Luckily many of these tools (Cloud Collaborative Software or Business Apps) are available, cheap and usually easy to implement/use.
consult with you to:
- save you time and money with business apps;
- implement cloud software tailored to suit you;
- automate and build business efficiencies;
- stop double-handling;
- automate the mundane.
be there to train people:
- in new software;
- to find information fast
And provide on-going instant support
Trello is project management electronic whiteboard. Collaborate with your team anywhere. Free version available, easy and intuitive to use. Extremely customisable. “Trello lets you work more collaboratively and get more done.
Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible and rewarding way.”
“With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place.” It’s free, works on all platforms, and is collaborative. You can have multiple calendars eg work and home and your voluntary organisation.
Slack is the ultimate team communication tool. You can chat with your teammates; video chat; screenshare; share images; search efficiently, and much much more.
Slack has made a virtue of “playing well with others” and integrates with other apps and services.
Google Docs is the best collaborative tool for creating and editing documents currently available. It’s quite magical to be editing a document, and to see your teammate also editing the document in real time. You each can either edit directly, make comments, or make suggestions. The documents auto-save and you can track the history of changes.
“Feel organized without the effort. Evernote helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects, and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks.”
Seamus, the Digital Magician, can setup and train and consult you in all these products, and also can connect all the programs seamlessly where needed.
Using a product called Zapier he can make magic happen in the background.
Stop any double-handling of data, stop copying and pasting data from one program to another,
“With the evolution of open ecosystems, apps that would have previously competed, now integrate and work together. This comes as a result of the expectation that data will flow in and out of their apps, fostering collaboration and communication. Gone are the days where software was kept on servers, inside operations on lockdown from your potential competitors. Today, refusing to collaborate in marketplaces fuelled by open APIs holds the potential to withhold a world of opportunity.”
from: xero.com/blog/2016/08/new-era-software-collaboration/
The businesses that will thrive in today (and tomorrow’s) world are the ones that embrace these open ecosystems.
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