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See and hear a 5-minute video of a real person using your site. It's super fast, and totally free. Via Robin Good
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great way to use crowd to perform a very important task. Could this not be applied to more than just websites?
Robin Good's curator insight,
February 13, 2014 12:29 PM
Peek is a new online service which allows you to get a real human to visit your site and to record a custom video in which your site is explored with the eyes of a first time visitor and with the recording of his own voice recounting his first time impressions. The result is invaluable for any serious web publisher wanting to improve the organization, usability and design of its web site. To use Peek you only need to type the URL of your preferred web site, and then wait for an email that will provide you a link with the video. Your response time may vary, but in my case I got the video in less than hour. The clip is 6'+ minutes long and provided me immediately with lots of useful insight about what I could improve right away. Free to try and for three verifications every month. Extremely useful. I'd say invaluable. Every web publisher should try it once. Try it out now: http://peek.usertesting.com/
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Yellow Pages Group turns to New Relic as its go-to tool for boosting the speed and relevance of its web and mobile applications. Via André Boisvert
Farid Mheir's insight:
New Relic tool gives more insight into web and mobile application performance. An essential component of any professionally run web solution, it goes hand in hand with the devOps approach which gives developers a greater insight - and responsibility over the online software they deploy.
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The origin of the service that taps into humanity's collective psyche
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good review of Google's invention that taps into the large database of information it collects about searches and makes it available to all of us to save time. I use Google autocomplete for other purpose than to simply save time. I use it for product research, trend analysis, and sometimes competitive analysis. I use it as inspiration and sometimes for guidance, when I am not sure exactly what to search for. An invaluable tool.
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Most Customer Relationship Management or CRM implementations are governed by an incomplete vision, one that is far too internally focused, and as a result, they are quietly failing to live up to their potential.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Just goes to say how important system integration is within an organization. Solutions such as CRM or SFA (but also ERPs, eCommerce, and many others) that can pull information from all the sources that an organization has about its clients, from inside (field service, customer support, etc.) and from the outside world (linkedIn, twitter, websites and more), is essential. This requires an enterprise strategy and architecture around the client data, which most do not have yet. This is the real challenge.
John Presutti's curator insight,
October 16, 2013 3:31 AM
But successsful implementation of CRM means Marketing, Corporate Srategy, Finance, and IT working together and speaking the same language!
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Farid Mheir's insight:
a good reference to use when looking for software tools.
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Excerpt from review article by TechCrunch:
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
Farid Mheir's insight:
For my technology friends, you may know of this already, if you don't I find it interesting.
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Farid Mheir's insight:
First entry into my 100% digital theme. Harvest is my timesheet and invoicing solution. Litterally saves me hours avery month in invoice production. Must have for any small business that still produces invoices manually using excel and word.
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Oshyn's WCM Implementation Guide takes you through the process of implementing a new CMS. Drawing on years of experience, Oshyn's team covers what you'll need to do before you start your implementation, what activities are usually left out of the design phase that require special attention, and how to handle the development. The content is great for those new to an implementation or those who have gone through it before but have experienced issues, as it covers the basics and more.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Great reference guide for project managers and business people with little experience, it presents the steps that organizations should consider when changing or redesigning their Internet website.
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The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build;...
Farid Mheir's insight:
There are multiple images and a great video with the product designer and manager. Great interview and review from someone outside of Google on this new product. Use of the glasses appears to be fairly basic: take pictures/videos, read emails, navigate to a destination. In themselves, each or all could become killer apps for personal use of the device. Question I ask is: are there killer apps in a business context? Warehouse personnel already wear devices to help them pick the right products. Sales teams use CRM & SFA tools to prepare for meetings. But what about being able to recognize someone's face, then lookup his LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter and company feeds for the latest info (that's been done BTW in an experiment). Great for sales reps who need to remember, on the spot, personal informations about people they meet. Or police officers to look for criminals in a crowd (as will be the case in the upcoming 2014 soccer world cup). What do you think?Could there be applications that transform business? I am thinking they would require hands-free or connectivity to outside resources. Am I missing something?
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Read Robin's comments. Then try some of the classes. Very basic or more comple, they provide insight that are essential for businesses that are going digital. Visualization has become very important, with recent flood of infographics (not all good) and visualization toolkits. They are transforming the way the press reports the news in certain cases - The Guardian UK paper even has a section Show and Tell dedicated to it.
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
June 22, 2013 6:29 PM
great for preparing data and analyzing it.
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Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don't get hacked. Sites that support 2 factor authentication: Google/Gmail, LastPass, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft (some), Yahoo Mail, Amazon Web Service, Wordpress, DreamHost
Farid Mheir's insight:
Based on the idea that security is improved if you are required to provide 2 pieces of information. In most cases, it means something you know (a password) and something you have (a cell phone). Takes a bit of effort to setup but essential for anybody or corporation that is seriously going digital.
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Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Trello changes the project management by bringing a simple solution based on cards and the Kanban approach. they have 1M after 16 months and they provide a free solution. Trick with Trello is simplicity. It replaces a whiteboard with post-it notes. It is visible on multiple monitors, iPad, iPhone, Android. It just works.
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A great list of tools, very useful. I am amazed at how many I do not know... and to think that I thought I knew many. Goes to show how little I know!