Posted in Commentary with tags Teamup on September 18, 2016 by itnerd
One of the most tiresome activities for those working as part of a team is keeping track of the various moving parts of an ongoing project. Whether for the same company or as part of an assignment, it’s difficult to avoid versioning issues, missed appointments, resource availabilities, confusions of meeting times and a myriad of other problems associated with groups working together to meet important deadlines.
Calendars, designed to organize and remind, have come a long way since the days of scribbling notes on tiny boxes on the page of the month. There now exist are a multitude of web-based and downloadable calendars available. Many of them are adequate for individual users. However, when it comes to group calendars, they fall far short.
Applications such as Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar grew out of the consumer marketplace. Yes, they have enterprise features, but they are essentially the same product as the consumer version with a few enterprise bells and whistles cobbled on top. That’s why you see continual glitches like timezone mess ups or team members revising an older document version.
What separates Teamup from Google and Outlook calendar products is that it was designed from the very start with groups in mind. Its ease of use group functions takes it way beyond the capabilities of a mere personal calendar. The goal of Teamup is to help groups manage their time and resources effortlessly.
How does it simplify group calendaring? What often happens is that one user prefers a certain web-based calendar and invites the other members of his team to collaborate on that platform. However, they then have to create an account or download a program. This can turn a spur of the moment “let’s all meet in a few minutes” into long delays while people figure out how to register or struggle with the install. The reality is that, frankly, many people simply do not want yet another account.
Customized Calendaring – Simplified
Teamup, on the other hand, makes sharing a calendar a rapid and hassle-free experience. Each user is simply shared with a unique and secure URL – no downloads, no accounts, no registration.
Each link used to invite people to the group calendar is created and maintained by a group administrator. It can then be shared with one user or a whole group if multiple users are involved.
Furthermore, the administrator has granular control over who has access rights to which events on the calendar. Teamup has nine access levels ranging from read-only, add-only, modify-from-same-link to those that limit access to sub-calendars. This enables the administrator to easily customize access rights for different members of the group. Granting access to a new member or removing access of a departing employee can be done in a matter of seconds.
On the user side, individuals can toggle calendars on or off to filter what they see with the click of a button. This makes it easy to focus on specific tasks without clutter.
Creating an Event
Creating an event is done in a similar fashion to how it is achieved on other popular calendars. You simply click on a specific date and a pop-up window appears. From the pop-up, details can be added such as who, when, where, duration, and recurring options.
The description box is used to add more information, but it also allows HTML for even more customization. Images can also be added to the calendar. Events, too, can be assigned to more than one sub-calendars. e.g. a training session can be assigned to the calendars of the teacher and the classroom. This ensures consistency when an event with multiple associations is created and updated.
Every now and again, events include people that aren’t part of the group. There is no reason to invite them to take part in a calendar as a majority of it is not relevant to them. Every event on a Teamup Calendar has its own event page URL that can be called upon by all users of the calendar so that individual events can be shared as an independent web page or added to their personal calendars.
Plans and Pricing
Teamup offers plans ranging from Basic (free), Plus ($8 per month), Premium ($20 per month) and Enterprise (contact for pricing). The basic plan includes a majority of the functions Teamup offers with an unlimited number of users, up to 8 sub-calendars and one year of historical data.
The Plus plan includes everything in the basic plan as well as a daily agenda, 12 sub-calendars and five years of data history. The Premium plan includes everything in Plus as well as file and image upload, up to 50 sub-calendars and 10 years of data history.
Regardless of the size or type of group, Teamup is a simple, efficient, and flexible web-based calendar solution that ‘”just works.”
Teamup Helps Groups Manage Calendars & Events Effortlessly
Posted in Commentary with tags Teamup on September 18, 2016 by itnerdOne of the most tiresome activities for those working as part of a team is keeping track of the various moving parts of an ongoing project. Whether for the same company or as part of an assignment, it’s difficult to avoid versioning issues, missed appointments, resource availabilities, confusions of meeting times and a myriad of other problems associated with groups working together to meet important deadlines.
Calendars, designed to organize and remind, have come a long way since the days of scribbling notes on tiny boxes on the page of the month. There now exist are a multitude of web-based and downloadable calendars available. Many of them are adequate for individual users. However, when it comes to group calendars, they fall far short.
Applications such as Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar grew out of the consumer marketplace. Yes, they have enterprise features, but they are essentially the same product as the consumer version with a few enterprise bells and whistles cobbled on top. That’s why you see continual glitches like timezone mess ups or team members revising an older document version.
What separates Teamup from Google and Outlook calendar products is that it was designed from the very start with groups in mind. Its ease of use group functions takes it way beyond the capabilities of a mere personal calendar. The goal of Teamup is to help groups manage their time and resources effortlessly.
How does it simplify group calendaring? What often happens is that one user prefers a certain web-based calendar and invites the other members of his team to collaborate on that platform. However, they then have to create an account or download a program. This can turn a spur of the moment “let’s all meet in a few minutes” into long delays while people figure out how to register or struggle with the install. The reality is that, frankly, many people simply do not want yet another account.
Customized Calendaring – Simplified
Teamup, on the other hand, makes sharing a calendar a rapid and hassle-free experience. Each user is simply shared with a unique and secure URL – no downloads, no accounts, no registration.
Each link used to invite people to the group calendar is created and maintained by a group administrator. It can then be shared with one user or a whole group if multiple users are involved.
Furthermore, the administrator has granular control over who has access rights to which events on the calendar. Teamup has nine access levels ranging from read-only, add-only, modify-from-same-link to those that limit access to sub-calendars. This enables the administrator to easily customize access rights for different members of the group. Granting access to a new member or removing access of a departing employee can be done in a matter of seconds.
On the user side, individuals can toggle calendars on or off to filter what they see with the click of a button. This makes it easy to focus on specific tasks without clutter.
Creating an Event
Creating an event is done in a similar fashion to how it is achieved on other popular calendars. You simply click on a specific date and a pop-up window appears. From the pop-up, details can be added such as who, when, where, duration, and recurring options.
The description box is used to add more information, but it also allows HTML for even more customization. Images can also be added to the calendar. Events, too, can be assigned to more than one sub-calendars. e.g. a training session can be assigned to the calendars of the teacher and the classroom. This ensures consistency when an event with multiple associations is created and updated.
Every now and again, events include people that aren’t part of the group. There is no reason to invite them to take part in a calendar as a majority of it is not relevant to them. Every event on a Teamup Calendar has its own event page URL that can be called upon by all users of the calendar so that individual events can be shared as an independent web page or added to their personal calendars.
Plans and Pricing
Teamup offers plans ranging from Basic (free), Plus ($8 per month), Premium ($20 per month) and Enterprise (contact for pricing). The basic plan includes a majority of the functions Teamup offers with an unlimited number of users, up to 8 sub-calendars and one year of historical data.
The Plus plan includes everything in the basic plan as well as a daily agenda, 12 sub-calendars and five years of data history. The Premium plan includes everything in Plus as well as file and image upload, up to 50 sub-calendars and 10 years of data history.
Regardless of the size or type of group, Teamup is a simple, efficient, and flexible web-based calendar solution that ‘”just works.”
Here’s a video of Teamup in action:
To learn more about Teamup visit www.teamup.com
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