Chris Peters, founder of Functional Methods has prepared a pretty in-depth analysis on
(a) why his company chose DeskAway as their primary collaboration and project management platform
(b) how are they using DeskAway in their consulting business with their internal teams and clients
(c) what value is it providing and how DeskAway is helping them grow their business.
Today, we uploaded a revamped version of our website. If you noticed, a major overhaul has been made to the navigation with tabs that look like the tabs we have inside the application. A few of the less clicked links have been moved to the top and only the major links have been given priority on the tabs.
There were other few cosmetic changes that we made - basically, using more of the bluish tones…
Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback on our old site. 
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The following post is from Jon Davis’s blog - System. Reflection. Emit
A while back, I posted a blog entry mentioning a couple project management web sites I had found that were inspired by Base Camp but seemed to have things done up right. I got a comment from the folks at DeskAway.com, suggesting that I check that service out. I found some really annoying issues up front, and I was very vocal about how turned off I was by the otherwise fantastic site because of those issues.
Those issues have been dealt with, though, and although the site is not bug-free nor flawless, it is now proving to be by far the best project management web site I have ever touched. I initiated a big project at work on the site and after I added a few co-workers and my boss to the project and dropped $10 for a month of “Personal” service (mainly so I could replace the plain and boring DeskAway.com logo), my boss came back and told me he was buying a $100 (year) subscription for our company instance because he liked the site so much.The company is surprisingly responsive to flaws mentioned on the site. I often get e-mails from the CEO himself, the same fella who posted a comment here on my blog recommending that I check it out. I tend to wonder if he is really just a signature a whole staff is reusing, because the responsiveness to my issues — even performance issues and my own complaints about down time — have been responded to and addressed within days.
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Clay Spinuzzi, associate professor of rhetoric at The University of Texas at Austin, checks out DeskAway at his blog:
“DeskAway follows the familiar Basecamp model for web-based project management, but it adds several features, some of which have become common in more recent web-based PM software and some of which I haven’t seen.
- Contact sharing
- Team blog
- Robust time tracking
- Reporting and analytics for project summaries, project timelines, time tracking
- An issues summary for managing and tracking breakdowns
- Project wiki
I have not yet signed up for the free trial, but hope to do so soon. It looks like an interesting product, and I like the emphasis on reporting and analytics.”
Thank you Clay!
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