As a candy store manager and/or business owner, you have a
number of projects on your plate at one time. Therefore, this week’s tip
provides some of our favorite tools to manage projects online. One of the
benefits of using online tools is that you can access the information from
nearly anywhere and team collaboration is amplified. Plus, the online tools below
have accompanying smart phone apps, making access even easier.
- Trello – Trello is a simple and visually pleasing way to organize projects. Add images, checklists, due dates, attachments and more to keep your projects organized. You can have multiple boards, or projects, and organize tasks, or cards, within the boards in whatever fashion you choose. Additionally, assign collaborators to tasks to easily track who is responsible for different pieces of the project.
- Freedcamp – Freedcamp provides project templates to help you get started as well as a group wall to communicate with all users within your projects. The system also makes it easy to choose what your employees and clients can see with a fully customizable user permission system. Freedcamp includes a great dashboard providing an overview of projects, important tasks and recent activity.
- Teambox – Teambox has thought of nearly everything when it comes to project management. Keeping track of conversations, workloads, files and notes and documentation are just some of the features. Users may also view a Gantt diagram of a project’s status, share calendars and connect projects via email. Teambox is free for up to five users and utilizes a “pay as you grow” structure for more than five users.
- Evernote – Evernote is essentially an idea board for managing projects. It’s great for visually focused projects. For example, if you’re looking to redo your packaging soon, you may begin collecting photos, links, documents and notes about what you want your new packaging to look like and accomplish. Note that Evernote is great for you to organize projects and ideas, but to collaborate with others, you’ll want to use Evernote Business which is fee-based.
