Archive for the ‘Web tools’ Category

Cool tools for image resizing

Monday, September 21st, 2009

A very common requests we get at Simply is regarding the resizing/editing of images before uploading them to the CMS or the email marketing tool.

Anton has added an easy to use tool to the Simply site that will hopefully help you along the way.

Go to http://tools.simply.com.au/

Have fun, its pretty easy, upload the image then use the icons above it to edit in any way you see fit. Any questions you know you can just give us a call.

Another great tool (Charlie eluded to in an earlier post )for editing images that is also free for most features can be found at http://www.picnik.com/

Join up for free and try it out.

Getting a handle on workplace compliance

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Got a lot of paper flying around? Lots of people scratching their heads saying I didn’t know, I wasn’t told or can you train me? Yep, like most fast growing companies you are approaching a point or already at the point where compliance safety and training can no longer be handled in an adhoc manor… ahhh bring back the old days of when we were small and the lunches were long eh!

Business Control was originally developed for NCSS, a hardware maintenance company with 100 employees & 100 agents australia wide, dealing with multiple vendors like HP, Sony, Apple, all with their own rules and regulations that must be followed. Communicating this to the service providers nationally was darn near impossible the old way and there was certainly no visibility on who was up to date. “Not good enough” say the big boys.

Enter Simply with Business Contol!

Business Control is a compliance and elearning solution that provides managers with a true gauge of the employee’s understanding of policies and business procedures. It allows managers to identify areas of risk and act/train/communicate online -  proactively, before problems occur.

Business Control provides:

  • centralised company documents on the internet or company intranet. Automating the effective distribution of policy and business procedure documentation to users inboxes
  • a record of receipt and consumption per employee
  • a score of their understanding of the policies
  • assurance that all employees read policies within the time frame set
  • measurement & understanding by means of an online multiple choice exams
  • grades and records employee’s exam scores then reports them back to management
  • email alerts to management of exceptions or employee failure to comply.

For a self paced demo go to - www.businesscontrol.com.au

online workflow tools

Friday, September 26th, 2008

here’s a good selection of online tools to help streamline your web-productivity.

web browser - firefox 3.0
word processor & document management - adobe buzzword
image editing - picnik
file sharing - drop.io
presentation - Sliderocket
survery and polls - PollDaddy
embedded video streaming - Vimeo or youtube
embedded documents - scribd
screen sharing & collaboration - adobe connectnow

any more? feel free to add them in the comments.