Ah, Seth Godin. If you're involved with marketing, branding, or life online, his blog is required reading. Seth has a very inspiring, no-nonsense way to think and express ideas. In an interview he gave for the Spark 97 podcast, he was talking about how to get from living life offline to getting on the bandwagon [...]
There are two schools of thought with project management tools: project management OR collaboration. Why should project teams have two tools, one for project management and one for collaboration? Shouldn’t both these uses be united in one tool? Project management is not about secrecy, quite the contrary. It’s about sharing information with everyone who needs [...]
Seth Godin has a very insightful post about ignoring your critics. I agree with him. From a sales standpoint, critics are everywhere. People who are shopping for project management software often have a very definite set of features they would like to see in their tool. And when they are faced with the reality of [...]
I just watched this nice video on how to trick Excel into making a Gantt chart. It’s not that the process seems difficult, it’s just very time consuming: Create your task list, with start dates, durations and end dates. Create a stacked bar chart form this data. Modify your bar chart to make the start [...]
Last month, Melinda Cline gave a presentation about using AceProject to teach her students about management information systems and project management systems. Here are her conclusions: “Using AceProject, students have an effective tool to increase their understanding of planning, organizing, controlling, and monitoring projects in a global environment. It is a cost effective way for [...]
I’m in charge of both sales and marketing at Websystems. This is highly irregular: at most companies, sales and marketing are kept separate. However, in a small company like us, it makes more sense to have one person do both sales and marketing. Since our business is online, I can do live demos and write [...]
