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Get heard on Xamun with Get Satisfaction!

Get Satisfaction is known as a customer community software platform that caters to customer-centric discussions and information exchange. In its conception, it showed results of customers wanting to help each other out by answering questions, posting queries and offering suggestions.

As a business solution, Xamun found GetSat to be an intuitive and friendly environment that in turn reflects our philosophy as a company. Such philosophies that mirror ours are: receptiveness to opinions and ideas, transparency in discussions, and providing simplified answers to complex questions. If you’re following our twitter feed, you’ll see that we’ve housed a more elaborate FAQ section on GetSat where you can post follow up questions and discuss best practices on approaching certain roadblocks. The community is up and being maintained by our earnest Support Team and we will continually build other sections such as videos, tutorials, etc.

You don’t have to sign up for Get Satisfaction although it is greatly recommended especially if you like to proactively participate in the community. You can easily log in with your Twitter, Facebook, Google Account, Windows Live, and OpenID and you can already start posting!

We like to hear what you want to see on Xamun’s Get Satisfaction community. We hope to see you there!

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Project Management Software for Consultants and Freelancers: Is it enough?

Project management is one of the central cohesive sources of support of project managers and consultants alike. If the project is the heart, project management methodology is the process that maintains and sustains the project. Luckily enough, the present market provides project management software that help consultants on achieving essential activities, deadlines, and tasks that need to be delivered. The question though is that are their requirement boundaries meeting the consultants’ needs?

There are approximately 140 project management software available in the present market, most focusing on functionality like collaboration, scheduling and other threshold features. They mostly meet the basic essentials of project management but are those all that they need? Among the 140, 87% are designed for collaboration, 82% run online, and 67% are developed with issue-tracking systems. Other features include Schedule Management (76%), Resource Management (72%), and Document Management (75%) while license types fall evenly on proprietary, SaaS, and open-source.

Recent trends are now considering interface as a basic requirement for effective project management software along with easy navigation and project status overview; providers like Basecamp and Teamwork offer satisfying results for project consultants who work in the corporate segment. But this only reaches the project maintenance part. How about freelancers who require a network of community for opportunities? Project maintenance is one thing but sustainability is another. It’s great that they can manage their projects but the business side is left bare.

This is where social network integration comes in. We know that communication within the team is vital to project management but joining networks to reach out to clients and prospects is equally important. Integrating social network and leveraging on its power will help in this evolution. And with that, expect the additional task of tracking and updating leads and no other apps seem to be offering that kind of package. There is also the headache of feeling segmented; sure there is the option of integration but the stress of jumping among apps and getting lost on tabs is a pain. What’s also missing is the function to be able to gauge skill standards and a similarly important part of the business aspect, billing and invoicing. To put it safely, the signs are here: in the future of a strengthening consulting industry, the rising number of freelancers, and the cloud migration, there is a genuine need of converging these needs in a single platform where freelancers and consultants alike can optimize their benefits.

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