About Jose Maria Delos Santos

Jose is a subject matter expert in the project management field. He has gained vast knowledge by having written hundreds of articles including project management software reviews, books reviews, training site reviews, and general articles related to the project management industry.

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 |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-AsanaAsana 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 |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 MessagingBasecamp 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 |2016-06-22T13:38:03-04:00June 22, 2016|

Asana News: Put Comments on Project Status Updates

AsanaAsana 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 |2016-06-21T17:02:41-04:00June 21, 2016|

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

Basecamp In Tne NewsBasecamp 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 |2016-06-20T07:16:19-04:00June 20, 2016|

AceProject Software Review – Features and Pricing

Overview Presentation

AceprojectAceProject 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 ManagementAceProject 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 |2016-06-07T14:43:09-04:00June 7, 2016|

Trello News: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Social Media Teams

In-The-News-Trello (1)Trello, a visual online project management and work organizing tool, continues to make a huge global impact, and now more so, being available in 20 languages and counting. In this news list, an author/blogger shares a shortlist of 6 tools every successful entrepreneur should use before testing every app available on the market. Also, a resource site for search engine optimization recommends 8 tools for your social media team to work better together and accomplish social goals.

6 Tools Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Use

On the Daily Two Cents site, passionate author and blogger Norman Arvidsson lists 6 tools for entrepreneurs to get started in improving their productivity, communication, and other business processes. Instead of randomly trying different apps every day to see whether it can help simplify their tasks and workflow, these 6 tools can cover the basics for creating and sharing online documents, listing to-dos, organizing tasks and tracking projects, among others. Trello comes in at number 3, described as the best app for online project […]

By |2016-05-31T07:55:34-04:00May 31, 2016|

Asana News: Customer Success, Task Manager For Teachers, and Essential Summer Workload Tool

In-The-News-AsanaAsana team application provides people a fast way to track projects in a highly visual way from start to finish. In this news list, surprising use of research and focus on customer experience will be shared in an upcoming webinar titled How Asana’s head of customer success has built a cult following. Also, a resource for educational web tools recommends 3 excellent collaborative task management tools for teachers in collaborating with colleagues on various tasks and projects. Finally, an article shares 16 essential tools to help streamline your workload this summer, so that people can have more free time to enjoy the season.

How Asana’s Head of Customer Success Has Built a Cult Following

In this Venture Beat article, Brian Boroff, Asana’s Head of Customer Success and User Operations, gives some information of how companies like Intel, Dropbox, Airbnb and Uber remain devoted in using their popular app. He revealed that through the hard work and feedback of a research team who looks at user profiles and identifies […]

By |2016-05-30T20:16:08-04:00May 30, 2016|

Comparison with Asana; Localization and Global Marketing Success

In-The-News-TrelloTrello is a popular team productivity and collaboration tool with more than a million of daily active users. In this news list’s first section, the tool’s features are compared to another popular cloud application’s features in the article Trello vs Asana: The Best Project Management App? Next, Trello’s International Marketing Lead was interviewed for tips on the product’s success in Trello Teaches How They Nailed Localization and Global Marketing.

Trello vs Asana: The Best Project Management App?

Business 2 Community is a business blog site whose mission is to create an open community for business professionals in sharing their thoughts, increasing exposure and networking with others. In this article, Benjamin Brandall, a content writer for Process Street, presents Asana first, then Trello, in terms of each app’s features and usability. He provides background information of each application, discusses their most important features, and lists each app’s pros and con. Making the comparison from the point of view of a user of both apps working on projects with a team, […]

By |2016-05-25T07:57:55-04:00May 25, 2016|

How Bloguettes Improved Organization and Productivity With Trello

bloguettes logoTrello is an online productivity app that lets users manage projects and organize work in a flexible and visual way. In the first section of this article, we learn about how the team at Bloguettes, a social media training and resource company, is using Trello and loving the way it has made work for them easier. In the second section, marketing director Nina shares how she uses Trello on a weekly schedule. Finally, a before and after app review of the productivity tool is presented by three team members. To know more about their latest posts, follow them on their Twitter account.

Why We Love Trello

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Bloguettes is a site/company that helps people develop their personal or their business’s online and social media presence. They manage and share a great amount of information such as articles and videos which require organizing and easy collaboration. This first video shows how the different department heads use Trello. Nina at marketing described how the tool helps her create […]

By |2016-05-24T11:59:11-04:00May 24, 2016|
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