About

The AppGap is a blog and resource on the future of work and how new tools are addressing age-old challenges of organization, collaboration, and creation. But it is also an idea: that there remains a gap between the toolset that exists and what’s needed.

This site’s intent: to serve as a resource for shedding light on the tools, trends, processes, and practices that can help and provide a forum for related discussions. Its intended audience: those in organizations, small, medium, or larger, who are looking for guidance, hoping to keep their ear to the ground, and seeking out answers that help them do their work more efficiently and profitably.

Here you’ll find commentary on effective tools and business practices, observations on emerging innovations, prognostications on where it’s all headed, reviews of new products, and pointers to tips, mash-ups, and the occasional amusing diversion.

We hope you tune in often and engage frequently – your insight, learnings, and tips greatly enrich this conversation.

Blog Policy

We invite you to read our blog policy.

Online Database Reviews

Be sure to catch Bill Ives' ongoing review series in which he looks at online, sharable database apps. The focus of Bill's reviews: web-based business software that enables companies and individuals to better organize, track, and share information, as well as better manage projects, processes and workflows.

Among the Web-based tools he's reviewed: Zoho, QuickBase, and TrackVia.

Looking for apps that help you and your team get work done?

Check out the AppGap's Appopedia, an ever-expanding section with reviews of more than 150 of today's best tools to help you better manage projects and collaborate. Reviews are presented in a useful directory that breaks down tools by category and function, e.g., online crm, project management, human resources, security, etc. Check it out here.

The AppGap Webinar Series

The AppGap has hosted a series of discussions with leading thinkers and doers intended to illuminate how new apps and approaches are changing the way we work and help companies and individuals implement better collaboration, project management, and productivity practices and solutions. Access, via the links below, the recordings, each about an hour long, of the discussions.

- 5 Big Ideas for Getting All That Work Done
- Should Your Business be Friends with Facebook
- The Future of Work

Recent Comments

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The AppGap is a blog and resource on the future of work and how new tools are addressing age-old challenges of organization, collaboration, and innovation. But it is also an idea: that there remains a gap between the toolset that exists and what's needed...

Can today's project management software be done better? What can online CRM help companies companies accomplish? Which development platform can help individuals and organizations build better online databases, Web based applications, and HR solutions? And what are the processes and best practices that help organizations large and small achieve success. Find out more.