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:
Olark claims to be the “world’s simplest live chat software.” Its ease of use comes in the form of real-time reporting, automated messages, and straightforward team management tools. The platform is also highly customizable, so you can adjust it to fit your exact live chat needs.
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2. Candidate screening:
Freshteam is an intuitive, easy-to-use, affordable Applicant Tracking System and Recruitment Software that helps recruiters source, interview and hire great talent. With Freshteam, recruiters can set up jobs pages, share job postings, solicit employee referrals, collaborate with the hiring team to shortlist candidates, schedule interviews, gather feedback and make offers. Freshteam is part of Freshworks, whose products include Freshdesk, Freshservice etc.

3. People Search:
Zabasearch is a free people search engine that scours freely accessible public information and records. Everything found at Zabasearch is culled from public domain information, such as databases, court records, and phone directories. It's a smart place to start a search because of all the public information it retrieves and shows in one place.

4. Task management:
ClickUp combines amazing simplicity with enough customization to fit any person, team, or organization who is looking to be more productive. In ClickUp, you can set up different teams and spaces–some can be personal, for your work, or anything else you can think of. The feature that helps ClickUp do this best is the option for multiple views (list, board, box and time). What makes that special is that you can view the same tasks and projects through any of these lenses while keeping the same task details, statuses, due dates, and task dependencies.

5. Customer service:
​If you’re looking to provide professional IT service to your customers, Samanage may have you covered. The winner of our Great User Experience and Supreme Software Award is rapidly becoming the favorite system in all industries, mostly due the intuitiveness and beautiful appearance that provide an unmatched user experience. The IT desk is fast, combines all necessary asset management and reporting widgets to be used in corporate environments, but most of all it is well integrated to work in every software ecosystem.


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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.