Project Management Bantam Live: A Social Project Management Dashboard Published on 19 July 2009 - Revised on Another interesting article that I came across. Having easy ways to share information with your teammates is absolutely crucial when your office is wherever you happen to set down your laptop. Various tools have emerged that let you share a dashboard of sorts with your teammates. Many of them have the ability to share files, to provide instant updates on what you’re doing, to assign tasks to team members — but one feature that I’ve been looking for just hasn’t made it into many of the tools I’ve tried. Bantam Live has made good on that missing element: the ability to manage shared contacts. Customer relationship management (CRM) software is a crucial component of Bantam Live’s dashboard, and for good reason. Whether you’re building a web site or selling a product, you never do it in a vacuum. Instead, there are a wide variety of people that must be contacted at various points. Bantam Live does far more than just keep a central file of phone numbers and email addresses, though: for every given contact, you can track their social media presence on sites like Twitter and LinkedIn. At a glance, you can see what your contacts have been up to and communicate more effectively with them. Bantam Live takes other cues from social media, too. The first opportunity to interact that you see is a field for status updates. Those updates show up in a real-time activity stream, along with newly created and completed tasks, notes, events and updates to contacts. You can easily interact with each item that appears in the stream, accepting event invitations, commenting on status updates, and so forth. Rate this article: No rating Print Arjun Thomas Arjun is a consultant with expertise in areas like Strategy and Operations within the field of Knowledge Management, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media. He is an Architecture and Design Specialist with expertise in the area of Knowledge and Enterprise Portals and Web 2.0 tools and services. He has a background of implementing large scale Social Networking and other Web 2.0 tools that are now being used rather extensively to promote Knowledge Management within most organizations. Full biography Full biography Arjun is a consultant with expertise in areas like Strategy and Operations within the field of Knowledge Management, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media. He is an Architecture and Design Specialist with expertise in the area of Knowledge and Enterprise Portals and Web 2.0 tools and services. He has a background of implementing large scale Social Networking and other Web 2.0 tools that are now being used rather extensively to promote Knowledge Management within most organizations. x Contact author Linked In
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