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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.

New Whitepaper on Optimizing Project Team Productivity


Intuit QuickBase recently wrote up some thoughts, compiled into a white paper, on seven ways you can improve team productivity with customizable web-based software. The first of those tips is shared below. Access the first, and find out more about the series, here.

Or, if you’d like to get all the tips now, click here to request a copy of the white paper – “7 Ways to Optimize Project Team Productivity: Using Customizable Web-based Software to Your Business Advantage.”.

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

New free web app from Intuit to help you get more done

Need help in getting organized? Want to keep things from falling through the cracks? Check out this free and simple to use online "To-Do List" called Intuit Task Manager, offered by our sponsor Intuit QuickBase. Sign-up is easy so you can get started with it right away.

Check out Appopedia, a new section of The AppGap we've just launched that pulls together the scores of app reviews we've published here since we launched. Appopedia organizes the reviews into 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.

QuickBase wins PC Mag Editor's Choice!

Intuit's QuickBase, the sponsor of this blog, has just been named an Editor's Choice by PC Mag. Check out the review which calls QuickBase a "a surprisingly simple and elegant application."

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