0301 – Training

Slack allows us to use instant messaging so that we are always able to be in contact with one another. Unlike Facebook, Slack allows us to create channels to organize our conversations, add threads to those conversations and archive our channels so that we always have an easily searchable record of previous discussions. Slack integrates with Google Docs so we can share files easily.
A potential problem is that it may be difficult to find conversations when there are alot of different channels and private messages.

2. Document Sharing: Dropbox Business

Dropbox Business provides a secure cloud file storage and easy file sharing for people within the organization. It is a big-time saver in making the files available and synced on multiple device. It is user friendly with a functional search engine.
It is just more costly than other competitors for similar service.

3. Version Control : GitHub

GitHub is a software development platform that helps manage projects, build software, and host and review code in a private cloud with GitHub Enterprise or on-premise with your own server. Code changes can be very easily and clearly tracked.
Complex and bigger history log of the code become difficult to understand. It lacks a mobile app and it’s search engine need some improvement.

4. Prototyping: InVision

InVision is a product design platform that makes it easy to create incredibly detailed interactive prototypes of your website, web app, or mobile app, and then view the prototype on actual devices. InVision also allows you to share your work with clients to evaluate aspects such as page design, UI design, UX design, website architecture, and so on. You can also use InVision to gather feedback from other team members, and collaborate with them on your designs, testing your product before committing to a specific design.
The software will on occasions, experience slowdowns or crashes due specifically to trying to load heavy files with too much visual elements. InVision’s web application is quite heavy, which makes it quite slow and affects it’s mobile application on the same level too, which affects performance and workload.

5. Time Tracking: Time Doctor

Time Doctor is a time tracking SaaS tool that permits remote workers as well as employers to track their time spent working and send invoices. It tracks not only the time but also takes screenshots of your team’s computers to make sure that they’re working when they’re supposed to. This helps your team’s productivity flourish as your team is working instead of browsing the Internet in non-productive ways.
It’s mobile app lags a lot and it’s functionality isn’t as effective compared to the desktop version. It is an uncomfortable experience for those who don’t like pressure and constantly monitoring, which affects their performance and well being negatively. Some of the data doesn’t always give an accurate picture of someone’s performance.

6. Project Management: ClickUp

Clickup has a forever free plan with features for subtasks, reminders, task priorities, time tracking, Gantt charts, goals, dependencies and custom statuses and so on. ClickUp allows you to add comments to specific tasks or specific team member, convert the comment into a task and have detailed conversations. With the real-time collaboration detection feature, you can see who’s active and work alongside them.
The application features can be overwhelming for people who are not tech savvy or new users. Its free plan offers a limited amount of storage and goal-setting options.

7. Code Testing: TestProject

TestProject is the worlds first free cloud-based, community-powered test automation platform. It is used to create automated tests for web and mobile apps. It simplifies and enhances the use of leading open source tools Selenium & Appium.
Test Project lacks minimum improvement to documentation. The universal location consisting of all relevant tutorial videos as well as help articles is currently lacking. It is not always clear which topic / process flow of the helpful tutorials to follow.

8. Digital Marketing Analytics: Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the free go-to tool for every business with a website that provides a report on how website users interact with your site. Google Analytics provides the overall statistics of a website performance including a total number of visits, average spend time on the website, the bounce rate, your audience, and demographics. It helps you determine what content to create more of, which referral channels you should focus on, and what pages you need to revise.
It is a huge learning curve that requires a organized, easily accessible and better training tools and resources for beginners, which can be overwhelming and frustrating. So, it isn’t user friendly.

9. SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Google Search Console

Google Search Console is freely accessible for anyone with a website, that can help you understand how Google and its users view your website and allow you to optimize for better performance in Google search results. You get a list of all the keywords for which your site is ranking, common search queries used to access site, who links to your site, and the pages that are receiving traffic. It integrates extremely well with Google Analytics to get more detailed information.
It is complicated and not user friendly. Google Analytics and Google Search Console data sometimes differs. It provides only a global option of analyzing your website and does not allow you to choose to add a single target country.

Google PageSpeed Insights is a website speed test tool by Google itself that shows the website performance on mobile as well as desktop. PageSpeed Insights gives you a website speed score that ranges from 0 to 100. It not only gives you a score of how fast your website is, but also what you can do to improve it. Following these optimization tips can not just improve PageSpeed score but also your rank in Google search results.
Currently it doesn’t provide you with the option of analyzing your website from a specific location. Some performance requirements are somewhat difficult to meet. You don’t need to get a 100% grade to have a greatly optimized website.

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