Zapier: Workflow Automation for Business

Zapier Workflow

I never realized that I’d have to wait 6 years before we’d begin seeing applications that intelligently visualized application programming interfaces… but we’re finally getting there. Yahoo! Pipes launched in 2007 and had some connectors for manipulating and connecting systems, but it lacked integration with plethora of web services and APIs that were exploding across the web. Zapier is nailing it… enabling you to automate tasks between online services – currently 181! Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of … Continue reading

Infographic: The State of Online Collaboration

networking business people

The world is changing. The global market, off-shoring, remote workers… all of these growing issues are hitting the workplace and requiring the tools that go with them. Within our own agency, we use Mindjet (our client) for mindmapping and process flows, Yammer for dialogue, and Basecamp as our online work repository. From Clinked’s Infographic, The State of Online Collaboration: Our experience, and that of our competitors, is absolutely unequivocal: 97% of businesses using collaboration software have reported being able to service more clients more efficiently. But the biggest benefits are … Continue reading

27 Enterprise Social Communication Platforms

Enterprise Social Collaboration

Online project management systems have evolved into social collaboration platforms, incorporating activity streams, tasks, scheduling, document management and integrations to external systems. This is an industry that’s progressing quickly and there are many players in the industry. We attempted to identify the top players in the enterprise social communication platform market here! Azendoo is the social task management solution that simplifies teamwork. Effortlessly share projects, organize your time and manage priorities. Reduce your inbox and get things done. Bizzmine – Online app for contact management, document sharing, calendar, to-dos and … Continue reading

Workstreaming with Yammer

Yammer

Before our conversation on Friday with Harold Jarche, I had never heard of the term workstreaming. Since last September, our inbound marketing agency has been a certified ROWE workplace. ROWE is a Results Only Work Environment… one in which employees are empowered to work as they wish as long as the requirements of the work are completed. As a small team, the one challenge we have with ROWE is communicating with one another. Some of us respond by email, some by phone, and some not at all (like me!). When … Continue reading