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Intranet, CRM and Document Management Software Review

stickyNoteManAre you one of those people that have sticky notes all around your screen? It begins with only a few things to remember – call designer, eat lunch, pants first then shoes, but it rapidly gets out of control. Pretty soon you can barely see the screen and you are stuck to your desk with fluorescent paper squares.

You need a better system, so you start using your email as a to-do list. 4653 emails, 3000 files and 31 billion spam messages later; this method also begins to crumble as an effective task management system.

Email is messy and unreliable. The real issue with email occurs when a team member leaves. All their valuable communication and IP is lost with their email account, not that you could find anything anyway. If that person was a project manager, suddenly you’ve lost all history of their projects. Not an ideal situation.

Here’s the answer to your sticky, fluorescent hell – Get yourself an Intranet. [Read more →]

OurDisk is turning 2! (V 2.0 that is)

Version One of our document management software, OurDisk has been very well received across a range of different markets with our client base growing every day. Thanks to valuable feedback from our customers over the last 9 months, we now have a whole bunch of feature requests that have gone into the melting pot for OurDisk V2.0.

We are very excited about the result getting closer to release as we continue to echo our passion for building user-friendly web software that makes doing business easier.

Whilst the core of the app remains the same, improvements include;

  • revised file navigation to cater for hundreds of categories, files and users,
  • smarter communication tools for notifying your clients of file updates,
  • and, rich reporting for administrators are also added to the mix.

For the techies out there, we are also adding 2048bit file encryption – the best on the market – to ensure security of your documents.

So, when is the release I hear you ask? Early November is the target.

To find out more visit the OurDisk website

Support Website Launched

We have decided to create a clean, simple to use support website to help all our clients (or anyone with Internet access) to access support articles on questions and issues we face on a day to day basis.

Check out http://support.knd.com.au and bookmark it if you wish.

If you still have issues or queries after visiting the support website, don’t hesitate to comment on the article or simply give us a call on (07) 3832 4077.  Suggestions for articles are also welcomed.

Reality TV and Internet Marketing Strategy

Web Content and the ‘Hard Sell’

absloute-reality-tvOur information is no longer ‘manufactured’ for us in behemoth news factories, then filtered by the government’s opinion and played out in full colour HD dramatisations for us all to passively feed on. We are becoming blind to advertising and keenly astute at detecting agendas. We are numbing to high-gloss news and current affairs and turning to ‘reality’ for entertainment.

This is reflected in our penchant for reality TV and flash-in-the-pan celebrities like Clare Werbeloff, the Chk Chk BOOM girl. We are more engaged in the lives and (mis)fortunes of ordinary people because they seem more believable than manufactured and scripted celebrities. [Read more →]