December 05 2008
Our Tool Box Partners
The secret to being a great technologist (apart from having innate diagnostic skills) is having a good “tool-box” of things to use to solve an opportunity. Take 50 years of solving technical opportunities, add it to our superior innate diagnostic skills, and mix it up with our keen ability to learn new things and I can assure you, we have a great set of tools to use in moving your organization to the Internet (really, solve any of your technical opportunities!)
Listed below are some of the tools we are currently working with. In reviewing the tool box of solutions we are familiar with, you will get an overall sense of how and where we fit in terms of helping your organization make the move to putting your business on the Internet.
The List Of “Tools”:
- Team Viewer - There is no reason to let distance separate us from helping and or supporting you. Team Viewer is an incredible solution for remote support, remote teaching, and remote desktop sharing. This product is very easy to use and overcomes the silly issues of Firewall’s, private networks, and technical configuration confusion.
- Grand Central - One number that can follow you anywhere and will take to all of your other numbers.
- ZOHO - This is tough to describe as there are so many parts to the ZOHO solution. Our best advice is to seriously check ZOHO out. In fact, we are seriously considering moving from Google Apps to ZOHO.
- MindMeister - Online MindMapping solution that allows us to collaboratively present ideas visually.
- Gliffy - Online drawing application (think cloud based VISIO).





GrandCentral was great —-> until Google RUINED it. Hasn’t had numbers available for a year-ish. Not to new accounts, not from current member referrals. DEAD. Snagged your blog with a google alert for grandcentral, watching to see when they deliver what they offer.
Michael, we too have noticed that there has or is a long delay in issuing new numbers. However, between all of our various accounts, we have had one that has been able to intermittently get additional numbers for our other businesses. So it is kind of hit and miss.