This document discusses how companies can save time and money by using modern collaboration technologies instead of relying solely on email. It provides examples of tools that can be used for tasks like scheduling meetings, sharing documents and spreadsheets, communicating with customers, and more. The document advocates starting with one collaboration tool to try it out, such as using Twitter, setting up blogs/wikis, or sharing documents, rather than attempting to adopt all tools at once.

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

2. 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!

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

9. Why is serial collaboration passé? Internet Transportation Applications

10. 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

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

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

13. Time to reboot!

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

15. 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!

16. We want to avoid this disaster

17. We need something more agile

18. Twitter for business

19. Social brand index

21. How not to use social media!

22. Or the “Motrin Moms”

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

24. Facebook makes it hard sometimes

25. A better way to use Facebook

27. Is blogging right for you?

28. What do these people have in common?

29. “ Wikiality”

30. Medpedia.com

31. Data to share Spreadsheets Documents Databases Calendars and schedules Customer questions

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

33. Google Docs

34. Google Docs

35. EtherPad

36. Sharing slide decks

37. Adding other real-time features

38. Scheduling meetings -- the old way

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

40. Google Calendar settings

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

42. Timedriver.com

43. Tripit.com

44. Tripit details

46. Yammer

47. One all-in-one solution: Socialtext

50. Why are databases hard to share?

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53. Import your data

54. Finish and share your database

55. Ping.fm

56. Friendfeed

57. Network monitoring tools

59. 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

60. So in the end …

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