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Tuesday Tech Tips - Latest Edition!

26/11/2019

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​Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
This week:                                                                                                                                       

1. Project Management Tool:
Asana combines elements of project management, file storage, and collaboration and helps to manage projects across a team without email. Asana is a really easy-to-use tool with a simplistic layout. If you’re a small team with not too complex projects, check it out.
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2. Communication app:
BlogIn provides an easy to use, out-of-the-box internal blog tool that enables employees to quickly share ideas and news, archive knowledge, pitch suggestions, ask questions and gain feedback. The Internal blog keeps all team members informed and up-to-date by collecting all relevant information and knowledge in one, organized and easily searchable place. 
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3. Video Conference:
Roundee is a video conferencing platform designed to be easily adaptable to any working environment, helping users maximize online meetings with powerful features on top of video conferencing, such as recording and meeting room branding. It is built to be versatile and seamlessly integrated, enabling users to video record online meetings and delegate tasks on the spot.

4. Mapping Tool:
If you want to create a map as quickly as possible, try Target Map. This is a straightforward and yet powerful solution for data visualization that allows to design a map in minutes. By joining the community of mappers on the site, you can create both public and private maps. For example, you can use a spreadsheet to create a map and then export the data to PowerPoint.

5. Diagramming Software:
draw.io is an online diagramming tool with integrations with Jira, Google, and Confluence available free online or at cost depending on integration chosen.

If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.
 
Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving
Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Friday Five Fun Sites for this Weekend!

22/11/2019

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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
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This week:​
  1. Britannica – General knowledge encyclopaedia. Britannica Group, Inc. is the world-wide leader at the forefront of the information revolution for 250  years. They have empowered the way the world teaches and learns, and they continue to pave the way in reimagining discovery and inquiry. 
  2.  CreativeLive – Take free creative classes from the world’s top experts. Whatever your level or passion, it will help you take big leaps, fast.
  3.  Kerb – A mobile collective of dedicated, innovative and darn tasty chefs, Kerb brings together the best food outlets on wheels in London’s fast regenerating Kings Cross most weekdays, and will open on a few Saturdays throughout the summer. From handmade chocolates and frozen yoghurt to burgers, pies, dim sum, doughnuts, pintxos and much more, you’ll never get bored of browsing KERB’s growing group of traders.
  4. Scientific American – Explores issues that matter including the human mind, earth, and space.
  5. InterestingFacts – ​Okay, let’s assume you aren’t into weird and morbid facts.  There are lots of great places to just get odd sorts of information. InterestingFacts is the best documented and diverse site among them.
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If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.

Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving

Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Tuesday Tech Tips - Latest Edition!

19/11/2019

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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
This week:                                                                                                                                       

1. Team Chat App:
Microsoft designed their Microsoft Teams chats app for meetings and documents. It works well for random conversations but is at its best when you're hammering out a proposal or outlining a project together with a team. Microsoft Teams organizes channels under teams. Invite everyone who should be in that team, and they'll automatically be able to join in every channel in that team. 
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2. Accounting Software:
Profitbooks is a cloud accounting software specifically designed for small businesses. It is a cloud-based accounting solution that lets you create invoices, track expenses and manage inventory, helping you save time and manage finances efficiently.

3. Time Tracker:
Among the best time tracking apps, Harvest is a top option for teams. Don't get me wrong. It's a stellar option for solo entrepreneurs, too. But it's built to handle a collaborative workload in a way that's clear and easy to understand. If tracking and organizing a team's time isn't your strong suit, then Harvest is a great app to help you get the job done.

4. Surveys:
Zoho Survey is a simple and straightforward online survey application that can be used for basic survey requirements. It offers a range of pre-built as well as custom templates that prove useful for organizations in conducting surveys in business areas such as marketing research, marketing, human resources, education, consumer satisfaction, and more.

5. Payments App:
Use the Skrill app to send money to friends and relatives, pay and play online, or make quick and easy international payments to merchants. Store your credit and debit cards and bank details securely. Spend funds instantly while keeping your financial details private. Send or receive money in 40 currencies across 200 countries. Each month, enjoy new merchant offers, deals, and bonuses.

If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.
 
Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving
Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Friday Five Fun Sites for this Weekend!

15/11/2019

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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
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This week:​
  1. Space Facts – At Space facts you'll learn scientific, historical, and cultural facts about space, galaxies, the planets, and other objects in the solar system. The latest discoveries and interesting space related features can be found on the blog, while the gallery highlights graphics and diagrams that illustrate more aspects of the the universe.
  2. Today I Found Out – With longer stories and explanations on things you never thought you'd want to know, Today I Found Out will certainly feed your brain.
  3.  Snapguide – Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, fashion tips, entertaining and more.
  4. Aeon – Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. A unique digital magazine, publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web. Asking the big questions and finding the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on science, philosophy, society and the arts.
  5. Zidbits – ​If you are passionate about uncommon knowledge, you will be happy to find a huge collection of fun facts or weird news on Zidbits.
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If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.

Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving

Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Tuesday Tech Tips - Latest Edition!

12/11/2019

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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
This week:                                                                                                                                       

1. Project Management Tool:
Basecamp is the preferred tool for thousands of project management teams, who enjoy its modern social media-like interface and carefree team collaboration features. Top features include projects to manage multiple users’ work, message boards for discussing new projects or ideas, in-app collaboration with team, reporting on project performance, separate dashboard for showing to clients, email and desktop notifications. 
What’s special about this tool is Basecamp is free for teachers and students! 

2. Communication app:
Slack has quickly become one of the most popular project management and collaboration tools, especially for companies with remote workers. This cloud-based team communication app actually originated as an internal communication tool for a small game development company. Launched in 2013, it’s now one of the most popular ways for internal teams to collaborate. Slack features chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. Files, groups, and members are all completely searchable, making it easy to pull up previous conversations. It’s available for web, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

3. Video Conference:
High Five is a video conferencing tool that offers versatile solutions for carrying out online meetings and conferences simpler and more enjoyable. This software tool can prove to be a major addition to your business especially if you deal with clients from another city or country. High Five evolved as an idea to improvise the way meetings are held. It has completely revolutionized the way online meetings and conference calls are conducted by removing clunky performance issues.

4. Mapping Tool:
Highly-interactive mapping is possible with InstantAtlas. It is a package of software that represents a powerful option for visualization of different maps. According to the official site of the developer, the tool is used by public health analysts, data managers, GIS experts, government departments and non-profit organizations to present data on diseases, trends, statistics in various geographical areas. Organizations like professional essay services also use this tool to map locations of a target audience.

5. Diagramming Software:
Microsoft has been working on Visio for a quarter century, and it shows: the Windows version of this application is polished. It doesn't matter whether you're hoping to make a flowchart, an engineering diagram, a floorplan, or a software mockup–Visio offers appropriate templates and shapes, more than any other option we looked at. The familiar Microsoft Office interface makes it easy to discover functionality, meaning you'll be creating something in no time. Creating a flowchart is fast and intuitive, as is creating other sorts of diagrams. And there's a wide variety of export options, including image formats and SVG vectors.

If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.
 
Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving
Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Friday Five Fun Sites for this Weekend!

8/11/2019

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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
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This week:​
1. Find your new favourite comic - Here  are some to get you started: SMBC, Dinosaur Comics, XKCD, Hark! A Vagrant, Married to the Sea, and QuestionableContent 
2. Astronomy Picture of the Day - Stunning photographs of space. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 
3. Duo Lingo -  The best new way to learn a language. Learn a new language for free. Learning with Duolingo is fun and addictive. Earn points for correct answers, race against the clock, and level up. 
4. Lizard Point - Browser-based educational activities. Lizard Point Quizzes are fun, free, interactive map quizzes to help you learn about the world around you. Hundreds of map-based quizzes to help you learn countries, states, cities, physical features and more. The quizzes are great for learners of all ages and are being used by home, elementary, middle and high schools, colleges and universities around the world. Even adults who want to broaden and maintain their knowledge about the world are using Lizard Point Quizzes for a fun way to achieve better comprehension of the news around them.
​5. Music Theory - Learn the language of music. Offered are enhanced versions of content for Apple mobile devices. Theory Lessons and Tenuto. 
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If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.

Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
Scope management- did everything get delivered
Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
Financials- did everything get paid ?
Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
Lessons learned
Documentation & archiving

Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
Video: How to price your project
Project delivery checklist
PMO Project checklist​
Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Tuesday Tech Tips - Latest Edition!

5/11/2019

1 Comment

 
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Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
This week:                                                                                                                                       

1. Team Chat App:
Twist, a team chat app from the Todoist team, changes that by turning all team chats into threads. It includes standard channels for group conversations—but when you want to say something, you either have to comment on an existing thread or start a new one. That keeps each conversation focused and helps you see what your team talked about while you were away.
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2. Accounting Software:
FreshBooks is one of the leaders in our accounting software category. The software is used by more than five million users around the world to streamline time tracking and invoicing. The vendor has recently updated the product to allow easy collaboration between team members and has added a redesigned dashboard where you can prioritize tasks and manage payments. The classic features have not changed and FreshBooks continues to offer top-rate invoice-to-payment functionalities, including direct payment gateways, overdue payment reminders, delay fees, and payment claims. 

3. Time Tracker: 
Everhour is an online-only time tracker and lightweight scheduling app that syncs with productivity apps you may already use. When you connect Everhour to a supported app, such as Asana, all the projects you've created in Asana show up as projects in Everhour. In that way, the work of setting up Everhour to reflect all your projects gets done for you automatically. You can get to recording your time on task much faster.

4. Surveys:
SoGoSurvey, a powerful program that is known for being able to create great surveys with a single click. You can share and download surveys that are created by the system, which are easy-to-understand. The solution is highly-intuitive, hence, no need for you to have extensive computer knowledge. Using the system, you get to hit the ground running and create surveys in no time at all. This is because the platform has pre-created templates. All you have to do is copy them onto your survey and the system does the rest.

5. Payments App: 
Venmo is actually owned by PayPal, however, Venmo is a very different app than PayPal. Venmo is an app designed primarily to send money to friends, with an embedded social aspect. And, while you can sign in and access your account on the internet, it is a mobile first experience built primarily for use on the go with your smartphone.

If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.
 
Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving
Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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Friday Five Fun Sites for this Weekend!

1/11/2019

2 Comments

 
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​Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
​
This week:​
  1. THIS AMERICAN LIFE – I’m sure you’ve heard of this. It’s one of the longest running podcasts. Created by WBEZ Chicago, This American Life shares stories that constantly engage – and often bring a tear to your eye.
  2. Stripgenerator – Stripgenerator is about comic creation, not clothing removal--though we wouldn't claim that the two paths have never crossed. The site lets you build your very own customized comic strip in a matter of minutes. Choose from an array of characters and objects, and then bring your strip to life, one square at a time. If you're feeling particularly adventurous, sign up to start your own "strip blog" and have your content featured on the site's home page.
  3. Difference Between – Want to learn the difference between, for example, socialism or communism? Or a violin and fiddle? Try this site.
  4. FailBlog – "Fail" is the blogger-adored modern stamp of disapproval for anything that falls below whatever arbitrary standard a critic feels like imposing. The proprietors of FailBlog.org open the "fail" doors to the world, encouraging readers to submit images of people, places, or things that in one way or another didn't work out right, and then inviting all visitors to vote on how many thumbs down the depicted blunder deserves. Whether the specimen under the FailBlog microscope is a poorly designed building or a curious case of inconsistent pricing, the site's findings are sure to generate some laughter wins.
  5. Popurls – ​Popurls makes it easy for you to keep up with all of the Web's headlines. The jam-packed aggregator presents the most popular content from social media sites, news sites, and even video sites in a simple-to-use single page.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ​
If you have enjoyed this week's brief but carefully curated walk through the web, please feel free to share or forward this email.

Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:
  • Scope management- did everything get delivered
  • Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
  • Financials- did everything get paid ?
  • Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
  • Lessons learned
  • Documentation & archiving

Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.
  • Video: How to price your project
  • Project delivery checklist
  • PMO Project checklist​
  • Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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