Tuesday Tech Tips - Latest Edition!

​Here are some amazing random cool stuff that I found on the internet this week - just click and enjoy!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Everett
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1. Chat Software:
SendinBlue offers a powerful yet beginner friendly live chat software. Simply set up your chat box under your account and then add it to your website using a WordPress plugin. SendinBlue allows you to easily convert your website visitors into customers by answering their last minute questions via live chat. The chat integrates with SendinBlue marketing automation which enables you to capture more leads.
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2. Candidate screening:
TalentRecruit Software is an automated cloud-based recruitment platform and is driven by artificial intelligence is one of the most agile recruiting software. It works with dual efficiency. It streamlines recruitment with managing application, interview, candidate, recruiting management along with assessments, onboarding etc.

3. People Search:
PeopleFinder is a people search engine that provides a few details for free, like the person's aliases, age, family members, and sometimes the first several digits of their phone number. You can pay a few dollars for the full search report (it's a trial of the full membership), or more if you want a full background report.

4. Task management:
Wrike is web-based Task Management software and it does not require any installation or download. It can be easily used just by creating an account. All the tasks are managed under one real-time Wrike workspace. Achieving better results, Team collaboration, Time tracking for the task, Progress tracking, Task scheduling, and planning, Sharing of workload, etc are few parameters of Wrike or say Wrike features.

5. Customer service:
Zendesk is a cloud-based help desk management solution offering customizable tools to build customer service portal, knowledge base and online communities. The solution offers a customizable front-end portal, live chat features and integration with applications like Salesforce and Google Analytics. Zendesk is used across a wide range of vertical markets including technology, government, media and retail, from small to large. Zendesk’s online customer portal helps support agents to keep track of tickets raised and their status. 

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Still want more ?
Project Close Checklist

You finally delivered the project and had the go live drinks. The team is now breaking up but there are a few things the project manager needs to do to make sure the project is closed and wrapped up. These are grouped into:

• Scope management- did everything get delivered
• Risk and issues- what is still outstanding
• Financials- did everything get paid ?
• Resources- have resources been re assigned ?
• Lessons learned
• Documentation & archiving

Further reading you can check out my blog.

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.

• Video: How to price your project
• Project delivery checklist
• PMO Project checklist​
• Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.