FountainBlue-Recommended Productivity Tools Envisioned, Developed and Distributed by Our Members
At FountainBlue, we profile
innovations envisioned, developed and distributed by our members, particularly
if we think that it could be helpful to our community in general. Below are
some tools offered by our community. A list of past offerings is below for your reference. Members may submit *your* hardware or software solution for consideration as part
of a future newsletter, complete the form above.
Sound decisions
require insight and intelligence.
Assessment Leaders http://www.assessmentleaders.com (AL)
provides a wide range of best-in-class assessment products to help managers and
HR professionals tasked with hiring, developing, and promoting talent in your
organization.. Join our global network of customers and see how easy it is to
discover the untapped potential in your job candidates and employees. But
that’s not all. AL also offers background checks, skills testing, and eLearning
solutions, as well as specialized services for consulting companies. AL can
even provide custom audits for leadership, compliance/SOX, culture and HR.
Check us out at www.assessmentleaders.com
to see how our solutions can make your job easier and more productive. CALL TODAY TOLL FREE 1-866-864-8200
Sign up for your own account on Constant Contact.
FountainBlue
leverages Constant Contact for its ongoing e-mail marketing needs, sending out
event invitations, newsletters, and other communications regularly.
Sign up for your free account now!
Foundation3's Private
Share Network™ Collaboration App - PSN™ sends you regular Silicon Valley news
of interest to you, as you define it. The news articles highlights a company,
and highlights any LinkedIn contact you might have impacted by this news,
making it easy to remain connected with your contacts on timely, relevant
information of mutual interest. For your free trial, visit www.foundation3.com.
Sign up for your own Google Voice account.
FountainBlue leverages Google Voice to flow telephone
communications more clearly and directly to us. Our Google Voice number,
650-395-8177 will call our work and mobile phones and send an e-mail
voice-to-text translated message to us, thereby increasing the likelihood of a
quick response to your telephone call and inquiries.
FountainBlue leverages LinkedIn
to identify panelists, conduct market research, and connect and support
community members. With a total of more than 100 million registered users,
spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, it is imperative
for business professionals to post an updated profile on LinkedIn and leverage
it to find other professionals for networking purposes.
We at
FountainBlue conduct events for clean energy, high tech and life science
entrepreneurs and women leaders and leverage LinkSV with its database of over
10,000 companies from start-ups to M&As to IPOs, that are involved in
Biotechnology, Communications, Computers, Environmental, Internet, Medical,
Outsourcing, Peripherals, Semiconductors, Semiconductor Equipment, Software,
and Storage sectors. The search and filter functionality of LinkSV allows us to
quickly identify relevant trends and key companies and speakers for our
upcoming panels.
We at
FountainBlue leverage Ooma in our home office for all US-centered calls. Set-up
was reasonably easy and there has never been any technical issues unless we had
a general internet access issue.
FountainBlue leverages PDFescape to manage PDF documents, as a free
PDF reader, editor,
and form filler with no downloads and no
watermarks.
Sign up for your own account on Quora.
FountainBlue leverages Quora as a
crowd-sourcing tool that would gather information and input from the larger
community on topics raised by FountainBlue events. We will create a link to
Quora questions as part of our web site and invitations, and create a link to a
compilation of answers following an event.
Executive onboarding or executive assimilation is becoming increasingly
important in today's marketplace. Onboarding is the process that supports new
executives in becoming productive quickly in their new environments. The new
employee is guided through a structured process that helps them to focus on the
right activities in the right ways during their first few months on the job so
that they are working in concert with their boss, setting the right direction
for their team and making significant progress towards the most important
deliverables. We are pleased to partner with and recommend Fortune 50
Executive, Leadership and Career Coach and Ironman Triathlete Bobbie LaPorte,
to community members who are in need of onboarding services. http://www.bobbielaporte.com
re.vu (pronounced review) is a
great visual supplement to your LinkedIn profile. It helps you establish your
personal brand and enables you to tell your career story using social evidence,
infographics, interests and achievements. re.vu is free to use and a simple
profile can be setup in 1 click as a LinkedIn import. You can then customize
themes, backgrounds, and add widgets to best represent yourself. http://re.vu
FountainBlue uses Square-Up for all on-site event purchases. We have found the
solution very efficient and easy-to-use and a cool tool besides!
Sign up for your own account on TimeBridge
FountainBlue leverages TimeBridge to
coordinate meeting times with single individuals or whole groups of people, for
example, in coordinating panelist prep calls for our various events. This free
tool allows the user to suggest up to five meeting times and designates a
call-in number and code for each of the callers. It also sends a confirmation
e-mail, reports about the call, and a daily brief of appointments.
Sign up for your own account on Wild Apricot!
FountainBlue leverages Wild Apricot as a
member management tool which ensures that only members receive membership
benefits and manages many different levels of membership and different benefits
associated with each membership level.
We at
FountainBlue use Outlook extensively, and find that Xobni helps you find and
track people, attachments and conversations and better and more quickly track
who is doing what in our large and growing community.
We welcome your recommendations on additional productivity tools which may be of interest to us.
