NOZBE PODCAST SOFTWARE

Nozbe is a web-based tool with apps for all the major platforms. Michael Sliwinski is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals and their teams. It's unique features make it stand out from the crowded field of project management apps and the low price point will be attractive for the budget-conscious nonprofit team.This podcast was first published in 2017. Taskade is fun to use, easy on the eyes and gives your nonprofit team that 'one source of truth' where you can do your work. Also, it can do a better job in future versions of letting you know where (and what) your work is when you first log in. I'd like to see it's paid versions be simpler and more clear.

NOZBE PODCAST SOFTWARE

Taskade isn't perfect as no software meets every need that your nonprofit team may have. You can work on a different project on each tab so that you don't necessarily have to close out and go back to your home screen and locate the other project. Tabs: instead of one 'canvas' where you may be working on a project, Taskade allows you to have many tabs open at the same time. That's very unique for a tool as powerful as Taskade. Rather, it's made for writing and allows you to think through your writing. Simplicity and UI: as Asana, and ClickUp can quickly overwhelm the user (with like a billion options!), Taskade feels like a child of Notion and Todoist- simple enough to use quickly and yet powerful enough to do whatever your team needs it to.Ī backbone of writing: John Xie told me that Taskade, at its core isn't a todo list manager. Here are the different views available within a project, accessed through one click of a button: Some are more complex and require a richer depth of planning. After all, not every project is simply a list. While I've been using Taskade, the multiple views help me to think differently about my projects. Multiple views: Taskade allows you to build out a project and see your work from different perspectives. If your team would benefit from one less tool to use (adios Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet), the video calling feature inside Taskade will accomplish that. What makes it truly unique is a built in video calling feature. They are committed to making Taskade the best tool on the market and they are well on their way.Ĭhat and Video calls: Taskade has a built-in chat feature which is becoming common among project management apps. When I spoke with John Xie, the CEO and CoFounder of Taskade, I appreciated the company behind the tool even more. While Asana, Basecamp, Nozbe Teams or ClickUp may get more headlines, I've found Taskade to be wonderfully effective as a project management tool. One tool that I've been using lately is Taskade. And, while we have regularly-scheduled meetings, we don't use them as the first option for our work. While we still use email, it tends to be for those outside of our staff. Chat: we use the built-in chat feature for quick questions that we have for one another. CRM: we map out 'next moves' on donors and prospects for our board.Ĥ. Donations: we track donations and scan in checks within a shared project.ģ. Meeting prep: we post agendas on a shared project.Ģ. When he and I spoke at the 2021 Nonprofit Productivity Summit, he reiterated the point: trust your systems.ġ. David Allen of Getting Things Done fame has spoken of this often over the years. What he means is that it's critical for teams to park their work in a piece of software (a system) and then let the tool make their work even more effective. They do this in order to have what Michael Sliwinski, CEO of calls, 'one source of truth'. The thing is this: great teams appreciate the value of a trusted system. I've heard everything from, 'we just use meetings to do all of this' to 'email and phone calls'. Putting it simply, nonprofit teams need one place to use for their projects in order to: The key is this: what's the best way to do so at a high level? Every team, from the animal shelter staff to the volunteers who coordinate a 5K race, execute projects. Many nonprofits, whether they be church staffs, school faculty or soup kitchens do not implement a project management approach to their work and yet, they should. If using a tool for project management is a foreign concept, you're not alone. My answer came quickly enough, 'that not enough teams have a single project management tool in place.' He asked me what the biggest surprise or challenge was for nonprofit teams. Tim Stringer of LearnOmnifocus and I were talking recently.

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