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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Review: Version 3.0 of Nimble's CRM helps you find connections and keep them

Nimble 3.0 $15.00 If you're managing a large social account, Nimble 3.0 can help you stay on top of your online presence and even expand it.

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Nimble is no newbie to the social CRM scene, and has been offering its unified social dashboard for several years now. Nimble 3.0, takes the system a step forward, doing its best to develop superpowers. Nimble 3.0 ($15 per month per user, feature-limited free version for personal use only) is not just about organizing your contacts and interactions: It's about finding the right people to interact with, and making sure you don't forget to do so.

Nimble 3.0 is not dissimilar to its previous version, and while there are no significant UI changes, in some aspects it looks like a brand new product. The former Activities, Contacts, Deals, Messages,  and Social tabs have been reworked, with the most prominent additions being the Today tab and the Signals tab. The Social tab is missing in action, but your social interactions are still available in other tabs.

Nimble 3.0 Today tabThe Today tab is a great place to get oriented and find important contacts and engagement opportunities.

As before, Nimble aggregates your online life from Gmail (or any contacts CSV file), Google+, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Twitter, making it equally easy to bore in on a single contact for a wide picture of their online presence, and to keep up with social activities from all your different networks.

The new Today tab is a start page of sorts, featuring engagement opportunities sorted by how good they are (e.g., if a CEO of a big company has a birthday today, that's better than some lowly worker trying to join your network). It also gives you a nice overlook of tasks due today, and upcoming deals--all of which can be added through Nimble or synced from your Google Calendar. The top of the page features today's "top 3," which are a daily choice of interesting contacts pulled from your networks. Every day, you can mark these contacts as important or not, and help Nimble improve. When you mark a contact as important, you get to set a recurring reminder to stay in touch with them, so the connection never falls through the cracks.

The second new tab in Nimble 3.0 is the Signals tab, aimed at helping you pick the signal out from the noise. This is all about social networks, and features as many of them as you added. From here, you can track your notifications, send or schedule status updates or personal messages, and track your own activity; but it also includes the Signals (Beta) tab, which is another way to find important people to engage with.

The Signals tab starts by showing you all important events, such as people who mentioned you, new followers, recently job changes, etc. You can then sort this list according  to four different categories (Birthdays, Job changes, New connections, and "RT, tweets, mentions, comments, likes"). You can also view only important people, to narrow things down, assuming Nimble managed to learn who is really important for you.

Nimble 3.0 Signals tabThe Signals tab helps you keep up with multiple social networks, see who's communicating with you and find out more about them.

The last significant new feature in Nimble 3.0 is Search, which is not entirely new, obviously, but was updated to include a sort by last date contacted feature. This is now possible in any contact view—not just when searching—making it easy to see at a glance when any member of the team last contacted this person. The advanced search is pretty powerful, letting you search inside a contact's name, company, address, social usernames, tags, last contacted date, etc.

Nimble was never really aimed at individuals, but these new features move it even further away from non-business users, and make it even more enticing for companies and teams. Nimble is not a perfect platform, though. Its biggest weakness, in my experience, is a considerable mix-up in contacts management, where I kept being offered the wrong social accounts for my contacts and ended up following random girls on Twitter instead of the contact I was looking at.

Its $15 per user per month pricing is relatively low, but doesn't include such things a Google Analytics integration. On the other hand, Nimble 3.0 now features integration with a host of new apps such as Quoteroller, MailChimp, Hubspot, Hootsuite, Salesforce, Shopify, and Wufoo, which can easily upgrade its abilities and features.

All in all, Nimble 3.0 is a nice improvement, and while the free trial is now only 14 days long (instead of 30), it's plenty of time to figure out if it works for you.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Review: Angry Birds for Pokki lets you play the Chrome version on your desktop

While known best for its mobile versions, Angry Birds is also available for Windows, but with its 50MB+ installer, a lengthy installation process, and a full-screen game that's hard even for medium-strength computers to haul, Angry Birds for Windows is not the best choice if you want to actually enjoy the game. Angry Birds for Pokki, however, is a delightful discovery, bringing the Angry Birds Chrome experience right to your desktop.

With one click, you can start playing dozens of levels of Angry Birds using half the RAM the full Windows version does, and with surprising responsiveness, even in full-screen mode. Since this is actually the Chrome version of Angry Birds, you need to sign in with your Google account in order to play most of the levels, and the available levels are mostly special holiday ones...but these include all the cool birds, all the mad piggies, and even the Mighty Eagle. The game is ad-supported, but you can get rid of the ads forever for $4.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page will download the software to your system. You will need the Pokki platform to run it.

Yaara Lancet

Yaara is a foodie, horse-lover, and biologist who enjoys being a geek as a full-time job.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Review: Angry Birds for Pokki lets you play the Chrome version on your desktop

While known best for its mobile versions, Angry Birds is also available for Windows, but with its 50MB+ installer, a lengthy installation process, and a full-screen game that's hard even for medium-strength computers to haul, Angry Birds for Windows is not the best choice if you want to actually enjoy the game. Angry Birds for Pokki, however, is a delightful discovery, bringing the Angry Birds Chrome experience right to your desktop.

With one click, you can start playing dozens of levels of Angry Birds using half the RAM the full Windows version does, and with surprising responsiveness, even in full-screen mode. Since this is actually the Chrome version of Angry Birds, you need to sign in with your Google account in order to play most of the levels, and the available levels are mostly special holiday ones...but these include all the cool birds, all the mad piggies, and even the Mighty Eagle. The game is ad-supported, but you can get rid of the ads forever for $4.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page will download the software to your system. You will need the Pokki platform to run it.

Yaara Lancet

Yaara is a foodie, horse-lover, and biologist who enjoys being a geek as a full-time job.
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Review: Angry Birds for Pokki lets you play the Chrome version on your desktop

While known best for its mobile versions, Angry Birds is also available for Windows, but with its 50MB+ installer, a lengthy installation process, and a full-screen game that's hard even for medium-strength computers to haul, Angry Birds for Windows is not the best choice if you want to actually enjoy the game. Angry Birds for Pokki, however, is a delightful discovery, bringing the Angry Birds Chrome experience right to your desktop.

With one click, you can start playing dozens of levels of Angry Birds using half the RAM the full Windows version does, and with surprising responsiveness, even in full-screen mode. Since this is actually the Chrome version of Angry Birds, you need to sign in with your Google account in order to play most of the levels, and the available levels are mostly special holiday ones...but these include all the cool birds, all the mad piggies, and even the Mighty Eagle. The game is ad-supported, but you can get rid of the ads forever for $4.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page will download the software to your system. You will need the Pokki platform to run it.

Yaara Lancet

Yaara is a foodie, horse-lover, and biologist who enjoys being a geek as a full-time job.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Create a Website Easily With Wix (Even the Free Version)

With the first Beta version of its original service released in 2008, Wix is no newcomer to the website creation arena. But Wix (free, Premium plans start at $5 per month) has just reinvented itself: Its previous offering was entirely based on Flash, and this current release leaves Flash behind for the power and ubiquity of HTML5. With the new Wix, you can create beautiful, modern-looking personal, portfolio, and business websites, without writing a single line of code and without running Flash.

Wix template screenshotWix features dramatic, beautiful templates that make it easy to get started making a website.To start you off, Wix offers dozens of ready-made HTML5 templates, subdivided into categories such as Kids, Music, Fashion, Food & Drink, and more. There are also single-page personal profile templates, competing directly against services like about.me and flavors.me. The templates are beautiful, and don't look anything like Wordpress or other content management systems. Like Weebly, Wix uses Web fonts, so it's not all Arial and Times New Roman: Titles are sometimes rendered in playful script fonts, and some themes use with thin, all-caps sans serif fonts for dramatic impact. The templates avoid Lorem Ipsum, opting instead for placeholder text that's in plain English and more closely resembles actual copy. In the rare event that no template catches your fancy, you can always start with a blank slate and create your website from scratch.

Wix image insertion screenshotWix lets you customize individual components, such as image galleries.The Wix editor is a joy to use. Click an element, and you can drag it around, change its text, or edit its appearance. You can customize just about anything: A template I was editing used ribbon elements that appeared to "fold" across the left side of images. With the editor, I was able to change their direction and color scheme so that they folded onto the image from the right. Since everything is based on CSS, I only had to change one ribbon, and Wix applied the change across all of the others. For many elements, the editor offers presets you can pick from, but also lets you create your own settings from scratch for your own unique look.

Wix also makes it easy to create new pages and arrange them in the menu, as well as customize the menu itself. Pages are arranged by types, such as a gallery, text pages, a Services page, and so on. Unlike Weebly, Wix does not let you create a blog as part of your site, nor bring in other editors to help you author content and maintain the site.

Wix fonts screenshotWix supports Web fonts, which means your website can break out of the familiar Arial and Times New Roman.The other side of the coin for Wix's ease of use is that you can't get at the actual CSS and HTML that drive your website. Even if you know what you're doing and want to customize things by coding, Wix will not let you do that: Everything is locked behind the editor. This also means that when you design you website with Wix, you are effectively married to the service. Wix does not support exporting your content, and monthly plans are relatively expensive for a simple web hosting service.

Wix does have a free option, but it displays a Wix banner at the bottom of your website and will not let you use your own domain name. Even the Connect Domain premium plan that costs $5 per month leaves the banner intact-to get rid of it, you must upgrade at least to the Combo plan, which is $10 per month. If you don't mind the rates (or the banner and Wix branding), Wix's new HTML5 version offers some of the best visual website creation tools I have seen to date.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can use the latest version of this Web-based software.

--Erez Zukerman


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