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Back in October last year, I wrote about an interesting web service called Bitrix24. Basically, it's a project management service and allows for teams to assign tasks, track progress and discussion, as well as providing a platform for interaction between employees -- in other words, a social intranet for companies. Today, almost every cloud service is accompanied by some sort of mobile platform; and Bitrix24 is no different. So in this review, we'll take a look at their free Android application which is available from Google Play. What's more, we'll also be giving away 25 Bitrix Startup licenses, and a HTC Butterfly!
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I'm sure many of you have thought about whether you're doing the right things every day, whether you're getting anywhere, and whether you're headed in the right direction. To-Do lists and organizational apps will help you keep all of those daily tasks and projects well-organized, but they don't really help as much with future planning.
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Streak is a powerful Gmail project management add-on for Chrome. It comes with templates for many different types of projects, for example customer support or event planning. In Streak, projects are called pipelines. You can add boxes to your pipelines, fill the boxes with information, e.g. incoming and outgoing email, comments, people responsible etc., and track the progress of each box.
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Today, we'll look at Bitrix24, a cloud service that will allow you to create a social intranet for your company within minutes. Bitrix24 provides the tools to interact with your fellow colleagues, assign and manage tasks, assign tasks, share files, collaborate on projects together, and in doing so, glue the entire company together. We'll be giving away 25 Startup licenses (a exclusive, customised plan), each valued at $1200/year for a total giveaway value of $30,000! Plus, we'll also be giving away a 16GB Slate iPhone 5 to commemorate the launch of their new mobile application. More information about the giveaway after the review.
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As web developers, a lot of the time we tend to work on local development sites then just upload everything when we’re done. This is fine when it’s just you and the changes are small, but when you’re dealing with more than one person working on something, or on a large project with lots of complicated components, that’s simply not feasible. That’s when we turn to something called version control.
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WeDoist allows small teams to manage up to three projects for free. It helps you collaborate with your group on coming up with tasks associated with a project, and assigning those tasks to members of the team. It's one of the fastest and easiest ways to manage small groups .
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Even the most seasoned WordPress enthusiast can't have seen all of the free themes going around, so there's every likelihood the P2 theme passed you by too. But, the P2 WordPress theme is not like other themes at all. The way P2 works, it fundamentally changes the ways in which WordPress can be used and opens up a world of possibilities.
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As a virtual assistant you potentially work for clients across the world. For the most part, you will work  virtually and communicate with clients and colleagues via email, telephone, or video chat, rather than meeting them in an office. With the right tools, you need nothing more than a computer and a mobile device to [...]
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Does the name Joel Spolsky mean anything to you? If so, you’re going to want to read this post, because it showcases Spolsky’s latest and greatest project. And if not, you should know this is the man behind Stack Overflow, WebPutty, Joel on Software and several other notable projects. His latest project is called Trello, and it’s a project management system.
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One great thing about an application as useful as Dropbox is that other people find interesting ways to utilize it and make it even more useful for others. For instance, you can use Dropbox to share files, manage your photos, sync files on various platforms, and cut time off your school work. You can even recover your lost files with it. Now I'm going to show you how to chat with it as well.
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We highlighted a few great websites that facilitate meeting with your team members in our roundup of online meeting tools, but the web keeps on growing, presenting us with handier web apps every time. The field for project management is no exception. There are many more such applications to help you collaborate with your teammates [...]
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