Teh Interwebz
Technology is the lifeblood of Fifth Column. We started filming completely on digital media two years ago and if our clients didn’t expect DVDs, we’d probably get rid of them too. We use Facebook and LinkedIn to find our clients. We use YouTube and Vimeo to show off our work. We twitter, all of us, for no reason at all and we blog. But we also use a lot of web based services that have been really helpful at organizing our buisness. Here are a few:
Remember the Milk – RtM is a task/project management service that is great for keeping personal tasks as well as sharing tasks with a group. This should not only keep colleagues accountable to tasks and deadlines but also give everyone a clear idea of the full picture.
Mindmeister – Mindmeister is a Mind Map program that allows you to share with your maps with others. These are great for brainstorming.
Sugarsync – Sugarsync is mostly used to share files among multiple computers but we use it to share documents throughout the company. Its a very efficient system for sharing documents.
Dreamhost – Dreamhost hosts all of our websites. They are extremely cost effective and efficient.
Mobile Me – We used to use Microsoft Exchange to host our mail, share our contacts and sync our company calander. Bust since we almost exclusively use Macs, working with exchange was always a chore and we were glad to find an alternative on the mac side. Combined with Daylight, a CRM program that syncs our calanders and contact list, Mobile Me works to back up our contacts and give us mobile access to all of our company resources.
Google Buisness Apps – Google hosts all our company email accounts and allows us to collaborate easily and effectively on documents.
Tags: Dreamhost, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mindmeister, Mobile Me, RtM, Sean Jaques, Sugarsync, Technology, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 am and is filed under Office Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
A shift to google business apps was quite effective.
Google documents keeps my work flow alive.
I have experience a few problems with Mobile Me, but find that for the Mac world is binds everything nicely. Really, however, why does one need to pay for it? Can you answer this?
Daylight is perfect for charting motion with clients, and most specifically in our industry.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Let us not forget a few runner ups and potential Fifth Column candidates.
http://www.drop.io – A promising CMS portal with secure login to preview to clients and partners. I recently used it to communicated various ideas and themes to our department heads on the AquaDeco commercial.
Evernote – so far just a personal app but it’s been invaluable in keeping track of meeting notes and ideas.
Curio – very expensive but a promising previz app. I could never really get the whole FrameForge 3D apps. It’s just to much damn work.
Daylite – is definitely becoming a staple of the data overload and a good replacement to MobileMe as a CRM.