This post was written by one of our customers (BridgeVine). It is from their blog and describes how they are using GroupSwim. Enjoy.
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“Marco”
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Too often, office communication is like a child’s game of “Marco Polo” with executives calling out blindly with initiatives or projects, and only some of the team hearing the details or reporting back on progress.
Every company suffers from “communication dissonance,” that random feeling of disconnectedness that comes from not trusting that everyone is on the same page. How may of your employees know all of your company initiatives? How often do employees get stuck using old forms or contracts? How can you monitor what remote teams are doing to collaborate on projects or programs?
GroupSwim, a great online tool, helps bring together the various forms of communication across your company and foster team awareness of issues, large and small.
My company is using GroupSwim for a Intranet Portal in order to keep everyone connected. We have two offices and a variety of remote workers, each of which has different ways to connect to our network. When that happens, we can’t always trust that having information available to the network is the same as having information available to all of our team members.
So, GroupSwim offered us a single point of virtual contact for keeping people informed and keeping information at the fingertips of all of our team members. People can log on, read updates and special messages, get progress reports on current projects, see achievement towards our corporate goals, get the latest phone list or office supply forms, even submit suggestions to our e-suggestion box.
GroupSwim offers much more, though, than just a repository for information and basic file sharing. GroupSwim has functions like a blog or electronic bulletin board where users can start discussions, contribute to projects, and collaborate on any number of programs within the company. It’s a moderated function, so managers can stay in tune with what’s going on in the enterprise.
One of the core tenets of The Business Perspective is finding low or no cost online services to improve productivity or efficiency in your business. GroupSwim offers big value, as they include a free trial, and their monthly fees are very affordable for all businesses.
I recommend GroupSwim for you to try, and I’ll keep people posted on how it works at our company in future editions of The Business Perspective.
Tags: BridgeVine, collaboration, customer, Enterprise
