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Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

JobBlogs: Facebook for business

By | November 12, 2008, 2:38pm PST

Summary: I’ve been a little busy over the last few weeks, but it hasn’t all been drinking and partying. I’ve been looking into JobBlogs, which has a highly innovative SaaS appliance, which blends together customer relation management and project management, with social media within business as a main selling point, into one central application. As they [...]

jobblogs.pngI’ve been a little busy over the last few weeks, but it hasn’t all been drinking and partying. I’ve been looking into JobBlogs, which has a highly innovative SaaS appliance, which blends together customer relation management and project management, with social media within business as a main selling point, into one central application. As they so delicately describe it:

“It serves up an intuitive, comprehensive and fast workspace tailored to meet universal team challenges. Contacts, plans, activities, tasks, documents and schedules, are easily organized and tracked throughout the work flow.”

But it’s not just that. It feels, from the very beginning of using this application, like an online operating system; a mesh for the masses, or a screen away from your computer. The user interface is fantastic. It has a very Windows-style feel to it, making sure the user feels safe and comforted knowing the environment even before they use it. You can even customise the wallpaper that you have - a very un-business like quality, but gives it that edge over other competing products.

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It’s a fresh way to look at things; integrated blog management to keep on track of projects and let others know how things are stewing. You can create and manage workspaces, tags, business processes - someone even quoted this as being “like Facebook for business”. It also boasts:

“…customer relationship management (CRM), intranet, contact database, content management system and file server requirements.”

jobblogs2.pngIt runs within your browser with a SaaS element to it, is incredibly easy to set up and worth the cheap cost to run it all. This could well be a user integral part of any organisation - keeping people connected, up to date, understanding and safe knowing their storage is secure.

It’s worth looking into at very least. This’ll be something I’ll personally be keeping in my bookmarks for a later date.

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JobBlogs Rocks!
Kathleen Howard Updated - 12th Nov 2008
We are a six person sales team that migrated from GoldMine to JobBlogs. Not that it was an easy product to find. In our quest to replace GoldMine we scoured the web and eventually vetted dozens of online competitors, none of which provided the seamless, affordable, product that we needed for sharing contacts, activities and projects (blogs) across our team.

Quite by accident we found the predecessor to JobBlogs and lucked into working with the Beta.

We were hooked from the first. JobBlogs is actually fun to use and there is nothing out there that can begin to touch its capabilites nor its affordabilities.

This app will work for single users on up.

And, no, I don't own stock in the company but I sure wish I did.

Joblogs Rocks! Try it.

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