I believe that onboarding plays a critical role in the success of any company. Get it right and employees ramp up quickly, adding momentum to company goals. Get it wrong and you’ll have turn-over and months wasted as new employees slowly ramp up. One of the reasons that onboarding gets neglected at companies is that… (more) 5 Qualities of a World-class Onboarding Manager
Behemoths Google and Microsoft dominate the document category, with G Suite and Office each used by millions of people, every day. Yet in spite of their dominance, new document apps keep launching with their own unique twists. Airtable is a reinvention of spreadsheets so people can make applications without writing a single line of code.… (more) Why Coda Believes The Future of Software is Documents and Makers
We recently analyzed 51 product manager job postings and found that the number one thing Product Managers own is documentation. I wanted to understand more about Product documents, so last week I emailed thousands of Product Managers and asked: “What are the product documents you create and who do you share them with?” We learned… (more) The Documents Product Managers Spend the Most Time On
G Suite helps us collaborate quickly and easily. We’ve seen several common business problems just disappear, and when we need extra functionality that doesn’t come with the core apps, we just head to G Suite Marketplace. The Problems that G Suite Business Solves We’ve found several common business problems just vanished when we switched to… (more) Why G Suite Business is Perfect and We’ll Never Go Back
I’ve personally used Evernote for years. It’s one of my favorite note-taking apps. Even with the difficulties they ran into along the way, I’m still a fan. However. And it pains me to say this. I cannot recommend Evernote Business under any circumstance. The short story: Evernote Business is fine as a basic document tool.… (more) Evernote Business Review – Read This Before Purchasing
Notion has been making a lot of noise recently, lots of folks have been switching to it. With a lot of people singing Notion’s praises, it’s one of the most popular new document apps right now. What is Notion anyway? Notion is a document app. It combines note-taking, documents, wiki-like functions for a knowledge base,… (more) Are the Notion Pricing Plans Good Enough to Make the Switch?
The Office 365 pricing plans get a bit confusing. There’s personal Office 365, business Office 365, editions available for a one-time purchase, subscription versions, and multiple plans for all the above. It’s a lot. To cut through the confusion and help you pick the best plan, we’ve sorted everything out below. When looking at Office… (more) Simplifying the Confusion of the Office 365 Pricing Plans
Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of apps for productivity, collaboration, and communication, hosted on the cloud and accessible anywhere. Essentially it’s a web-based version of the classic Microsoft desktop office setup: productivity apps like PowerPoint, Word and Excel, Outlook for email, and an increasing number of add-ons for more expensive packages that help you… (more) What Is Office 365 and Should You Get It?
In 2000, Marc Benioff staged the first theatrical protest that Silicon Valley had ever seen. The CEO of a tiny startup that no one had heard of paid actors to carry “anti-software” signs. They marched in front of a user conference for Siebel Systems, which sold customer relationship management software. Later that year, Benioff hosted… (more) How Salesforce Built a $13 Billion Empire from a CRM
“We’ve had a lot of smart people who wouldn’t join the company or give us money or advise us because [our business] made no sense to them.” — Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian co-founder When Atlassian was founded in 2002, the founders had a choice to make. They could jump through the standard hoops and do the… (more) How Atlassian Built a $10 Billion Growth Engine
