When communicating to new clients, investors and staff, it’s vital that you can get your point across effectively. How do you know that this has been done successfully? Well, usually, you can tell by ‘reading’ the person you’re talking to, if they’re looking at you like you need to be sectioned, then you probably need to take a different tack. Sadly, the lady in the video doesn’t have a clue about how far off track she is.

http://www.ireland.com/search/?rm=listresults&filter=datedesc&keywords=crm

(…) at last SageCRM.com, the software-as-a-service version of the popular customer relationship management software, is now available in Ireland. Although built and managed by the Sage Global team in Dublin (…) p

Published: Fri 01 February 2008 - The Irish Times - Finance

Athough based in Wales, UK - with a name like O’Sullivan, I still have a “soft spot” for the Emerald Isle! But I think anyone who takes the stereo typical “soft spot” view of Ireland and of its people and economy is definitely looking through “sentimental, rose-tinted glasses”.

The investment by SageCRM.com in Ireland not only shows the Irish awareness of the importance of ICT (esp CRM) to its economy, it also demonstrates that the Irish Govt (http://www.entemp.ie/enterprise/stateaid/regional.htm) encourages ICT investment in a way, it could be argued, that is more positively aggressive and enticing for potential and new SMEs (covering most, if not all, of the bases required by new start ups) than most political regional development programmes based in the UK. Is it any wonder that the Irish are leading the way in ICT and CRM (saas)…vive la Celtic Tiger!!

I’ve always seen the inbox area of Woosabi as being key to the product and key to where the product will be driven. This is probably because I’m an engineer and communicate with my clients almost 100% through email - we do face to face meets too which are vital but once we’re working email is the main link really.

Which means my user experience of Woosabi is focused almost totally around the inbox (using jobs and invoices to make sure i get paid ) . Where Woosabi already has a leg up  on solving the ‘overloaded inbox’ problem, is that email (in the Woosabi world) is either connected to a contact or it isn’t (in which case it’s a new contact and Woosabi will ask to create an association or do something with it spamwise).

 What this boils down to is with Woosabi that your inbox is usually only a 10 or 20 messages deep, and messages are either marked with reminders to reply (important) or not (not important) - sounds simplistic? It is and it works really well!

 At the moment I believe Woosabi email is at least as good as the current webmail offerings (gmail, hotmail, etc) but our architecture means we can do so much more and in particular aggresively attack the problem of spam, volume and response times to email.

The problems and perceptions of which are neatly summed up in this techCruch post

2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur 

Shooting Stars

Be it the Fab Four or the Dirty Dozen, the group has combined talents so the business is starting to take off and could be aiming for the stars. Time is precious, the right moves are crucial and wise decisions will rely on accurate visibility of the entire business.

With personal user accounts each member can tailor woosabi to fit their own working style and unique business responsibilities. Personal productivity is one thing, but woosabi captures, organises and keeps everything coming in and moving out of your business in sync - making sure that everyone has access to the same, up-to-date information at all times. Woosabi presents everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

I wonder how many visitors to www.woosabi.com understand the term ‘Beta test’?

Rather than a drivel-ridden explanation from me, check out developor/journalist Cyndy Aleo-Carreira’s post: Alpha, Beta Soup. What Does an App’s Status Mean to You? on Profy.com

One Man Band

No, not a street musician with a ukulele, large bass drum and cymbals strapped to the knees. That sounds like fun, but we’re actually referring to those talented people out there who simultaneously juggle every role their businesses needs to make it a success.

Sales, marketing, accounts… the list can be endless and the work involved in managing all these roles can itself hinder the work you really prefer and enjoy doing each day. We have a better idea that will change all that and free up more time for what’s really important both in your work and your life. Woosabi is simple and easy to use, building all the essential business tools in to a prescriptive system that is organised, accessible and allways working for you.

As we’re now in beta, we’re also doing a little ’spring’ cleaning - and this is what Woosabi looks like when it’s style sheets are removed

woosabi.com is officially “clean”….www.woosabi.com currently appears on SCA-Tork Hygiene site

http://www.tork.co.uk/september8

Living up to my social trend of ‘lowering the tone’…..

“With New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer allegedly caught nibbling the fruits of a high-class, tech-savvy prostitution ring, it’s clearer than ever the world’s oldest profession is doing a fine job of harnessing the latest technology.

The red light site at the center of the Spitzer scandal is EmperorsClubVIP.com. Now offline, it’s described in FBI files as a professional online storefront offering conveniences like e-mail confirmation of appointments, and linking clients and prostitutes across the United States and Europe.”

 http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/worlds-oldest-p.html