A year ago I wrote about testing Wrike for project management. My staff and I eventually abandoned it, only to give it a second try a few months later. In the end, we still disliked Wrike for the terrible user interface, useless smartphone app and lack of features. We assume there would be more features with the paid version, but the free version was so bad that we didn’t even bother with any kind of trial.
Now we’re onto Trello, another freemium project management software. After several months, we really like the ability to create client accounts (in this case, boards), project categories (lists) and individual projects (cards). We also can easily assign staff members to the projects, share notes and set deadlines. We also can share boards with people outside our network (e.g. clients).
One missing feature–apparently something many other users want, judging by the forums–is a way to mark a card as complete. Right now, you can either archive it or move it to another list (e.g. “Completed”), but there’s no notification feature.
I was really disheartened earlier this week. A person in the world on PR–I’ll keep him nameless–seemed like a affable guy. I had attended a presentation of his, and I read his book. His theme was “I’m approachable. Call me. Email me.”