TeamUp Reviewed – Part Two
My uncompensated review is continued from Monday.
I have trained my team that when they complete one of the tasks that at the end they add -DONE. I have to say this has made my life much easier and has streamlined management for my social media manager. When you are working with many remote employees who each work when they have time, you need to know when something is DONE.
Sorting
I really like the option to show TeamUp calendar by day, three days, week or month. I typically use the day and three day.
Emailing Updates
I have set my team members up to receive calendared events that have changed. I also get an email at the beginning of the day with each event that has been updated. I encourage my team to drag items they don’t finish for a day to the day they will do it on. Allowing me to identify if I have a problem with deadline slippage or team members who may need additional intervention.
Repeat Events
This is a brand new feature that suddenly got turned on in my account last week and I have to say I am now using it all the time. I can now take and event and repeat it on my schedule – certain days, certain days of the week or even monthly. This has helped me move from user to advocate.
I have to say that TeamUp is a problem solver for my team management issues and allows my manager to know what deadlines are met and not without time consuming double checks. For me, while on travel, I can know what is happening with my team with minimal intervention.
I highly recommend this free app to you to try out too. Find it online at https://teamup.com/.
TeamUp – Reviewed Part One
TeamUp is an online group calendaring tool that I found and am now using heavily for my 6 person content creation team. My team works remotely. We share files via Google Drive and had tried using a joint Google Calendar, but that just never seemed to have caught on with my team.
So, before I went on vacation I started looking for an easy to use, user-friendly online calendaring app to keep my team on track.
First, I do want to say that I am not being paid by team up or receive any consideration from them, I am simply a user turned advocate.
In fact I am using the free version right now although they do have a premium version and I am carefully scoping it out.
Here’s what I like and why you may want to consider using TeamUp too.
Easy to set up
I was calendaring tasks for my team in less than 10 minutes and the application was intuitive. I did not even have to read the documentation, although they do have nice videos and startup guides.
Color Coded
Each team member has their own color. I can see at a glance who has tasks to do and each team member can click their own color and see only their tasks in the group calendar.
SmartPhone App
My team has Apple phones and I have an Android one. Whatever I selected to try had to have an app available for iPhone and Android. TeamUp’s app in Android looks prettier. The Apple version looks more like a daily agenda list.
Come back Wednesday January 25th to read the rest of my review.
Lookout App Reviewed
For several years I have had on my Android smartphone the Lookout app. I upgraded to Premium for $29.99 a year and wanted to share my experience in using this app.
First, I am not paid for this review. I like the app and wanted to share my experience with you.
Here’s why I like the app and went premium.
I like the security features. Before the market was flooded with antivirus and security apps, I had Lookout to keep me safe.
I like the integrated feature that allows me to find my phone, to wipe my phone if it is lost, and to sound an alarm to help find my phone. Although now Verizon and even Samsung have these as phone integrated features now for free,. Lookout had them became device standards.
I like the online interface that allows me to manage device files, backups, call logs and images. Although Verizon has this feature now with Verizon Cloud, it is buggy and does not always perform backups for days and weeks.
Lookout also protects against the following: chargeware, items billed to your wireless bill without your consent; adware; app dropper; bot apps, click fraud; exploits; riskware; root enablers; surveillance ware; toll fraud; and Trojans.
It also keeps you apprised of what apps see and use on your phone to help you be in control of your privacy.
Here’s what I like that they just introduced this year.
This year Lookout added a nice app that automatically opens up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) when I go online. Although I have NordVPN for this use, I do like the automatic feature and use it more than NordVPN. I like this additional feature for security and consider it a nice perk for using their product.
Although smartphones may have some of these features now rolled into their device software, Lookout is proactively adding features and services that devices do not have at this time to keep your smartphone safe from schemers, spammers, and thieves.
I consider the $29.99 a year price a real value.