June 2016 - Bridge24

Trello News: Trello For Freelancers, Integrating The App With TalkSpirit And A Comparison Between LiquidPlanner And Trello

Trello_News Trusted by millions of individuals all across the globe, Trello is a free, flexible, easy and visual way to organize anything including managing your projects. This news article shares three great uses of the app that make it more versatile. Christy, an expert freelance writer, lists 6 apps that she cannot live without, and one of them is Trello. The second post is on integrating Trello with talkSpirit, which helps you to receive your desired notifications without any technical knowledge. The last article in this news series is a comparison between Trello and another exciting project management tool, LiquidPlanner.

How Trello Can Be Effectively Used By Freelancers

Christy O’Shoney is an established freelance writer who was criticized by many people in the earlier days of her career corroborating that it was not at all possible to make money online. However, she gave such things a deaf ear and with enough help from her friends and mentors, she took a conscious decision to stop listening to her critics. As a result, […]

By Pankaj Mondal|2016-06-29T09:09:58-04:00June 29, 2016|

Trello Introduces App for Slack

When two of your favourite collaboration tools come together, the outcome is a powerhouse of productivity. This has happened now, as Trello and Slack join forces to bring collaboration and task management in one place. Beginning immediately, you can now check up on any of your projects in Trello while still inside Slack communicating with your colleagues. Not just this, but you can also convert conversations in Slack into task items in Trello. It’s safe to say, the users are in for a treat. Looking for a brilliant extension to Trello, we suggest trying out our own tool Bridge24 for Trello.

The Trello Bot

Simply inviting @trello to your Slack channels will add the Trello bot, which saves a lot of time and unnecessary keystrokes. Just merely adding the Trello bot to your Slack channel brings you the details about your board and tasks, adding perspective and knowledge to the conversation, while maintaining the conversational flow. The best part is that the @trello bot saves a huge chunk of time spent […]

By Moiz Noorani|2016-06-28T11:53:27-04:00June 28, 2016|

Asana News: How to Organize Clients and Manage Projects

In-The-News-Asana As a free online project management tool, Asana is a popular application especially with freelancers, small teams and startup companies of up to 15 people or less. In our first article on the list, a freelance designer and coach shares her experience in using the tool with a guide on how to really use Asana to organize your clients and projects. It is followed by a step-by-step guide article written by a marketing director who has given up on email and instead learned and shares how to manage projects with this project management tool. Last in the list, an entrepreneur shares a complete guide on how to use it for project management, whether for team projects or for personal organization.

How to Really Use Asana to Organize Your Clients and Projects

The site ByRegina hosted an article written by Nesha Woolery, a freelance designer and coach, about how she is successfully organizing her clients and projects with the help of Asana. She shared the challenges and difficulties […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-27T08:23:44-04:00June 27, 2016|

Asana News: Team Management for Organization Admins

Asana project management and collaboration tool continuously updates its features to provide users the tools to not only manage their projects and tasks, but also their organizations and teams. Usually, Asana accounts are tied to individuals. However, Asana can create an organization based on a company’s shared email domain. Organization membership is based on the domain associated with a member’s email address. Therefore, people who sign up with an email address with the same email domain are automatically created as members of the organization. Organization administrators play an important role in creating and managing teams within the organization as well as protecting data and monitoring people’s access to it.

New Feature – Team Management

Asana has two versions, the free version and the premium version. Organization administrators of the premium version have more tools and capabilities in managing their company’s Asana organization. An organization connects all employees, but users within that organization can further be grouped into teams. As teams, users can then collaborate on projects and tasks. To […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-23T10:18:36-04:00June 23, 2016|

Asana News: The Perfect To-Do List, Conversion Rate Optimization Tools, and Android Productivity Apps

In-The-News-Asana Asana is a web-based productivity tool that helps users track their work. It is a versatile application that can be used in a variety of professional and personal work settings, including creating the perfect to-do list. It can be used alone for organization and efficiency, or together with other applications from among 36 conversion rate optimization tools that help keep websites in business. Rounding up our news list, Asana makes it in the best 10 awesome productivity apps for Android, helping even users on the go move their work forward.

The Perfect To-Do List – And How to Make One

In this recent Turbine blog, an attempt was made to describe what the perfect to-do list would look like. Turbine is an application that allows simple online purchase orders. About 7 characteristics and features were listed, first of which is that the list should prompt the owner to action. It should be concise, containing not more than 3 tasks, and clearly worded as specific accomplishments, not as […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-22T14:31:18-04:00June 22, 2016|

Basecamp Software Review – Features and Pricing

Overview Presentation

Basecamp is a web-based tool to manage projects, groups and client work. Basecamp 3 is the latest version and included a new, redesigned and improved features that help users to stay on top of all their work. It aims to keep people on the same page, organize and disseminate information, discuss ideas and make official decisions while keeping things in the application still simple and straightforward. It is being used by over 100,000 companies across the globe, by freelancers, small shops, mid-sized companies and large multinational organizations, providing a private, secure space online where people can work together and get projects done. If you need a great extension to Basecamp, we recommend you use our own tool Bridge24 for Basecamp

Features, Benefits, Product Strengths

Transparent Communication, Real-time Messaging – Basecamp has a unique mix of six tools that help users organize and discuss everything they need to get work done. The Message Board allows users to post important topics such as announcements, proposals, or ideas […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-22T13:38:03-04:00June 22, 2016|

Asana News: Put Comments on Project Status Updates

Asana team workflow and project management software recently announced the final feature being released for Polish Week. It is an Asana tradition during Polish Week when the company focuses on smaller but important issues to further improve or ‘polish’ the application. The final instalment focuses on the status update feature, in itself, an already powerful tool for providing teammates and stakeholders vital information. Polishing this feature further, users can now put comments and take the information to a higher level of engagement.

Project Status Updates

Asana enables project owners to communicate the current state of their projects through project status updates. This visibility is important to the project team and to the stakeholders who want to know how things are going on with the project, whether things are going on as planned or whether it needs additional attention or help. It is therefore essential that project owners update their project’s status on a weekly basis, and the application allows them to set up reminders to do exactly that. […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-21T17:02:41-04:00June 21, 2016|

Basecamp News: Defining a Movement, Tools for Delegating, and Content Marketing Tips

Basecamp In Tne News Basecamp is a pioneer in the cloud-based project management software market. With a unique work philosophy and an effective PM solution, this news article shares the narrative of how Basecamp defined a movement and stayed at the top over all these years. Also in this collection, project managers and leaders in charge of managing teams and groups are advised to work smarter, not harder with tools to help you delegate. Last in the list is an article that provides 6 outsourcing tips to add nuclear power to your content marketing, a complex activity that when done right, could lead to great rewards.

How Basecamp Defined a Movement – and Stayed at the Top

At the start of this PCMag article, Lean Startup contributing writer Rachel Balik takes readers back at the time when Basecamp started in 2004. Some of the company philosophy and work ideas of Jason Fried, CEO and founder of Basecamp, were shared and discussed, which Fried believes is the reason why the […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-20T07:16:19-04:00June 20, 2016|

AceProject Software Review – Features and Pricing

Overview Presentation

AceProject is a web-based project management software that covers most business processes of an organization. It is a comprehensive business and productivity solution for teams and enterprises in helping them organize their projects, tasks, documents, expenses and time. Users are able to minimize time spent on administrative processes, get updated in real time with email notifications, and effectively communicate with everyone involved in the proper context of project work. If you need add-ons for AceProject, we are offering Bridge24 for AceProject.

Features, Benefits, Product Strengths

Project Tracking and Task Management – AceProject has comprehensive interactive Gantt chart that is helping users visually manage tasks, and set dependencies between tasks. It has project portfolio management, allowing users to view and monitor the work progress across multiple projects using custom task reports. You can set up recurrent tasks, or start new projects using templates.
Timesheet Reporting and Expense Tracking – AceProject has an integrated time management solution that allows users to track time of resources across all projects. It […]

By Jose Maria Delos Santos|2016-06-07T14:43:09-04:00June 7, 2016|

Basecamp News: How to Use Basecamp to Manage Website Design Projects and Everything Else

Basecamp In Tne News

With thousands of users worldwide, Basecamp is one of the most popular web-based project management solutions on the market. It is widely used in many industries and for a variety of different types of projects. If you work in an agency that develops websites or creates website designs, Basecamp can be a powerful tool to manage your projects. Let’s take a look at how Spinweb, a website development agency, VIEO Design, a website design company and Hines Digital/BEAG Co., use Basecamp to get their projects delivered on time—without a hitch!

How to Use Basecamp to Manage Your Website Projects

Spinweb has been using Basecamp for a number of years for its project management needs thanks to a variety of its features, including: user-friendly interface, features to interact with both colleagues and clients, calendar syncing with Google calendar, file management, task lists and powerful search capabilities.

Starting a website project in Basecamp is easy. You can either build one yourself or use one of […]

By Tracey-Lee Batsford|2016-06-06T09:29:31-04:00June 6, 2016|