Multi-Tasking: Questions Awaiting Answer
“How do I manage multiple outstanding queries with multiple SMEs (subject matter experts) who may/may not reply to my original message? Keeping track is a nightmare.”
I’m beta testing one solution: a free, secure weblog.
This just moved from Alpha to Beta, so you may encounter some glitches. But I think we are close to having everything critical fixed, and next, the developer will be tweaking the usability issues we brought up during our tests.
Wideblog allows you to post and view comments, just like a regular blog. The format makes it easy to pair answers with questions, and keep everything in one place instead of strung throughout your email folders.
Best of all, this blog is secure from the rest of the web. For SMEs who may be working outside your intranet, it solves the problem of exchanging information that may be time-sensitive and business-proprietary.
This developer also offers WideWord, a secure document platform that can be used to create documents that are encrypted to be opened only by those you invite to view and/or edit them.
The developer is Pelle Braendgaard a young fellow in Denmark, who is bootstrapping his business venture with these products.
P.S. This service hit a serious snag as one of my clients was brought in to help test. Internet Explorer has a bug that hangs on that browser.
Since corporate users generally can not change browsers, this is a killer bug for many proposal teams. Pelle hopes to work around it with the next release of IE.
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