Eating our own dog food..

At Ripped Orange we train on many applications, we also use the tools we train and many more on a daily basis.

Here is a quick overview of some of the applications we use daily. For some applications it’s a bit like a builder's house that is never finished, for others we are really happy and have the application adding real value.

File Sharing

• SharePoint

• Dropbox

• Google Drive

• SkyDrive

Social Media

• Hootsuite

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Linkedin

• Blogger

Office Applications

• Office 365

• Word

• Excel

• Access

• PowerPoint

• OneNote

• Google Apps

• Project Visio

Financials

• Xero

• Workflow Max

Marketing and CRM

• Microsoft CRM – 2011

• Mail Chimp

• Survey Monkey

• Eventbrite

• Google Analytics

• Google Add Words

Communications

• Linc

• Skype

• 2 Talk

• Last Pass

• Outlook

• Gmail

The challenge we have is similar to many organisations. How to evaluate what is available and what will suit our needs. For some tools, this is easy for others there are a variety of comparisons and trade-offs to be made.

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