Quick way to research and make decisions online with Skimbit

Reviews, Opinions June 2nd, 2008

Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Skimbit helps you:

  • Gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress)
  • Collaborate and get feedback from friends
  • Make and act upon a decision.

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How are people using Skimbit?

  1. Organise a group holiday and get your friends to help pick the best accomodations.
  2. Buy a new house - So many different priorities. How will you make a decision?
  3. Find a wedding venue and share with your fiancee, bridesmaids and parents.

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Get feedback on your project with Backboard

File Sharing, Reviews, Opinions May 17th, 2008

Backboard is a simple utility designed to help you get feedback on whatever you are working on:

  1. Managers might use Backboard to gather input on product plans.
  2. Marketing teams can collaborate and gather feedback on graphic designs.
  3. Web designers can get client feedback on their latest concepts.
  4. Students might discuss and evaluate ideas for class projects.

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What type of documents do you support?
Backboard can gather feedback on documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WPD, ODT, Text and PDF), images (GIF, JPEG and PNG), web pages or other URLs, and free-form text.

Who will be able to see my documents?
Your documents are protected by url obfuscation–we locate your backboard at an extremely difficult-to-guess url. Watch for a password-protected version of Backboard in the future.

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Harness the Wisdom of your crowd with UserVoice

Office, Webware, Reviews, Opinions May 3rd, 2008

UserVoice provides a simple, functional page where a company’s users can make suggestions and vote for suggestions other users have made. The users may also comment on and track changes to their favorite suggestions.

UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas so we get more quality than quantity.

Key Features

  1. Listen to your users - they want to make your service more useful — get consensus on what that means!
  2. Respond to your users - from one place, with less overhead and support tracking
  3. Your users will feel empowered - they will feel more invested and become more fanatical about your service.

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Use SuggestionBox.com to send your suggestions.

Community, Networking, Reviews, Opinions May 2nd, 2008

SuggestionBox is the exciting new way to send suggestions and watch ideas turn into action. SuggestionBox created one place where individuals can share ideas with every company, group, organization, and product on the planet. The best part of a free individual membership is that it’s interactive.

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What makes SuggestionBox unique?
SuggestionBox fills a gaping hole in the feedback loop using the power of the internet. It’s the simple solution that people can use to let organizations know what they really want.

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Manage proofs on designs and documents with ProofHQ

Content Sharing, CMS, Reviews, Opinions April 15th, 2008

ProofHQ is a web based application that makes it easy to manage proofs, reviews and approvals of designs and documents.

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Here’s what you can do with ProofHQ:

  1. ProofHQ can used to proof PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP and TIF files. Use PDFs if you want to send multi-page proofs.
  2. ProofHQ is designed so that any number of people can review a proof at the same time.
  3. You can invite anyone with an email address and internet access to review a document. Each reviewer gets an email with a link to the proof.
  4. Reviewers can add and share comments, can view older versions of your proof and set a status such as Not Approved or Approved.

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