Saving time and money with the latest collaboration technologies David Strom [email_address] http://strominator.com (310) 857-6867 St. Louis, MO

Has this happened to you? You want to schedule a meeting, and you send a simple email to start things off Buried before you know it!

You want to schedule a meeting, and you send a simple email to start things off

Buried before you know it!

Collaboration benefits Save time and money Laser-like focus on your customers Become more competitive Create better products and help innovate

Save time and money

Laser-like focus on your customers

Become more competitive

Create better products and help innovate

Why is serial collaboration passé? Internet Transportation Applications

Internet

Transportation

Applications

Poll results How many bloggers are actively writing blogs for your company? How many times on average does your company post to its official blogs each week? Does your company have its own Facebook group or fan page? What percentage of people in your company's IT department use IM on a daily basis? Does your company have an official Twitter presence? Spiceworks.com Yammer.com Ping.fm Tripit.com Friendfeed.com Timedriver.com Etherpad.com

How many bloggers are actively writing blogs for your company?

How many times on average does your company post to its official blogs each week?

Does your company have its own Facebook group or fan page?

What percentage of people in your company's IT department use IM on a daily basis?

Does your company have an official Twitter presence?

Spiceworks.com

Yammer.com

Ping.fm

Tripit.com

Friendfeed.com

Timedriver.com

Etherpad.com

Transportation alternatives Use email for notification but move data in more flexible ways across the Internet Or consider other notification services like IM, Twitter

Use email for notification but move data in more flexible ways across the Internet

Or consider other notification services like IM, Twitter

Notification problems Email too slow IM best for one-on-one Chat rooms too crowded Consider Twitter!

Email too slow

IM best for one-on-one

Chat rooms too crowded

Consider Twitter!

Time to reboot!

There has to be a better way! Some ways to save money by using collaboration tools that really deliver bottom-line benefits

Some ways to save money by using collaboration tools that really deliver bottom-line benefits

BUT…. Your staff can’t keep up with their emails as it is They are too old/busy to tweet/IM/whatever Show some leadership!

Your staff can’t keep up with their emails as it is

They are too old/busy to tweet/IM/whatever

Show some leadership!

We want to avoid this disaster

We need something more agile

Twitter for business

Social brand index

How not to use social media!

Or the “Motrin Moms”

Other tools for collaboration Sharing documents and slide decks Presence-awareness Scheduling meetings Handling customers

Sharing documents and slide decks

Presence-awareness

Scheduling meetings

Handling customers

Facebook makes it hard sometimes

A better way to use Facebook

Is blogging right for you?

What do these people have in common?

“ Wikiality”

Medpedia.com

Data to share Spreadsheets Documents Databases Calendars and schedules Customer questions

Spreadsheets

Documents

Databases

Calendars and schedules

Customer questions

Let’s start with documents Many ways to share them without having to depend on email back-and-forth!

Many ways to share them without having to depend on email back-and-forth!

Google Docs

Google Docs

EtherPad

Sharing slide decks

Adding other real-time features

Scheduling meetings -- the old way

Google Calendar has tools that enable it to be share among several people and PCs

Google Calendar has tools that enable it to be share among several people and PCs

Google Calendar settings

SetMeeting is useful for finding a common time for multiple parties to meet

SetMeeting

is useful for

finding a

common time

for multiple

parties to

meet

Timedriver.com

Tripit.com

Tripit details

Yammer

One all-in-one solution: Socialtext

Why are databases hard to share?

Online databases $8/mo/user $250/mo/10 users $10/mo/user Free!

$8/mo/user $250/mo/10 users

DabbleDB Sign up for a free 30-day trial

Sign up for a free 30-day trial

Import your data

Finish and share your database

Ping.fm

Friendfeed

Network monitoring tools

Time to share your business card Pick one technology to get started on today : Twitter-like services Blogs and wikis Scheduling meetings Customer support forums Sharing spreadsheets or documents All-in-one solutions like SocialText, Zoho

Pick one technology to get started on today :

Twitter-like services

Blogs and wikis

Scheduling meetings

Customer support forums

Sharing spreadsheets or documents

All-in-one solutions like SocialText, Zoho

So in the end …

Contact David Strom [email_address] strominator.com (310) 857-6867 St. Louis, MO

David Strom

[email_address]

strominator.com

(310) 857-6867

St. Louis, MO