AllinTogether

PROFILE: Erica, 31, Project Manager

About Erica: Organized, task-oriented, detailed and often works at several different client sites.

Erica’s Requests:

• No time for excessive bells and whistles – she wants current information and easy interaction
• Manage her data and show her what is relevant
• Keep her teams informed without overwhelming her with manual tasks
• Put all of her data in her hands and make it easy to find information

Some ways Erica can benefit from Convos include:

• Setting up a Convos group to manage her team and also to connect and collaborate with the client
• Assigning tasks to team members
• Sharing files and a collaborative group calendar
• Providing team members with access to a group directory
• Team members can send weekly reports to Erica using pre-defined forms
• Setting up meetings and receiving RSVPs
• Organizing information effectively by labeling files and events

PROFILE: Denis, 21, College Student

About Denis:

An intelligent, disorganized and extraordinarily busy guy in his senior year at NYU. Denis keeps track of assignments and appointments on post-it notes and by writing on his hand. He is majoring in English and is a member of several on-campus social organizations. He wants to be more organized but he does not want to waste time or energy to do so.

Denis’s Requests:

• Something to organize his life as a student, a fraternity brother, a teammate, and a friend
• No more advertisements cluttering the page
• Simple, fast interface that minimizes the time he needs to spend organizing
• Have all of his email accounts go into one central inbox

Some ways Denis can benefit from Convos include:

• Managing all fraternity-related activities in a simplified, secure, powerful intranet-like environment
• Connecting to his snowbarding club, intramural basketball, and sister sorority for information sharing, collaboration, event planning, polling, photo sharing etc.
• Maintaining current contact information of friends that have graduated
• Integrating his class and work schedule into Convos — to help him manage his time
• Compiling reports that need to be transmitted to the national headquarters of his fraternity

PROFILE: Bill, 45, Volunteer Organization Leader

About Bill: Dedicated to his causes and attempting to leverage technology for the good of his organization. Bill is not very tech savvy and needs something that is both comprehensive and simple.

Bill’s Requests

• An application that is easy to learn and fun to use
• Being able to keep his volunteers informed of new events
• Connect to other volunteer organizations to boost membership

Some ways Bill can benefit from Convos include:

• Maintaining a distribution list of over 3000 volunteers to communicate community service opportunities
• Keeping the group up-to-date via collaborative group calendars
• Automatically building a public-facing website to attract new volunteers
• Electronically connecting his organization’s group to various other organizations for increased visibility and information sharing

PROFILE: Sandra, 29, Small Business Owner

About Sandra: Tenacious, entrepreneurial and addicted to the internet. She owns a company that specializes in making unique home furniture and accessories.

Sandra’s Requests:

• Sleek interface that looks good even when it’s not in use
• Instant information updates – no more refreshing the inbox
• Seemless integration with an external website

Some ways Sandra can benefit from Convos include:

• Managing all of her personal information, online interactions and work-related files in one place
• Connecting her business with furniture store distributors, enabling her to send updates on her products and collaborate with her vendors
• Communicating directly with her customers
• Posting store events on a shared calendar
• Using an internal calendar to ensure all employees are aware of upcoming shipments
• Allowing her assistant to use it to maintain financial files in one location
• Automatically publishing her store’s content to a public-facing website