Simple Tools Group

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simple tools and real solutions

These are examples of how appropriate tools - and processes - can make the difference in helping your organization become more effective.

-- An East Bay Yoga studio wanted to provide better service for its members – it chose a blog to give its services a community ’voice’. The studio’s blog not only provides teacher and class information but also acts as the venue for the studio’s philosophy of Yoga.

-- A School Fundraising Committee chose a wiki – an informal online collaboration space — where parents and teachers could add their ideas about ways to improve their after-school music program.

-- A Real Estate Appraiser with over 20 years experience, selected a simple web site to act as an online brochure.

-- A Ceramics artist uses a web site to describe her work and she uses GoogleBase entries to bring potential customers to her studio.

-- A New Mom’s Group wanted to provide help for women returning to the office work force selected a wiki as a kind of ongoing community bulletin board where anyone could add job leads and job-hunting suggestions.

-- A local coffeehouse needed to differentiate itself from the national and regional coffee ’chains.’ By using a blog, the coffeehouse not only established its voice as a contributor to local causes but also became known as venue for local writers to give readings.

-- A moonlighting graphics designer uses a simple web site to display some of her work and to describe her qualifications in order to attract customers to her ‘Creating better Power Point presentations‘ service. .

Did you know that fewer than 5% of all large software application features are ever used?

Maybe, just maybe, our tools should be simpler..