DeskAway has been mentioned in the Mint (web as well as the print edition) as one of the tools that can help you become fitter, happier and more productive.

Learn how to ignore the World Wide Web’s many distractions and get down to work…with the help of the Web.

This might sound familiar: You’re at your desk, finally having dispelled every distraction to the corners of your mind, and just about to get some actual work done when someone pings you on chat. Intrigued, you change tabs—and there are three new emails waiting for you, including a comment on a photo you’d just uploaded on Facebook. One tab leads to another, and soon you’re neck deep in three IM conversations about the contents of your lunch box.

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DeskAway was chosen as one of the 10 best Indian web startups of 2009 by Indian Web 2 blog.

DeskAway is one of the best Project Management Tool available online, free as well as paid its one of the first such web start-up from India that made mark on web inspite of already available competitors such as BaseCamp, Collab, Zoho etc.

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Thanks Indian web 2 team!

We are all geared up for 2010 and hope to feature in these lists for next year too!

DeskAway was recently reviewed by 20:20 Social a social business strategy firm based in India. They provide solutions for Indian and international clients.

We found the interface easy to use, clean and inviting. It was easy to get started without really digging deep into the How To tutorial /video and it was nice to see how tips and tutorials were generously placed on various pages but with the option of closing them all in one go in case you felt confident of finding your way around independently.

Always feel that a tabbed view makes an app largely clutter free and easy to navigate and at the same time allows a lot of features to be packaged in well. DeskAway scores high marks on this account and makes good use of a tabbed UI and frames.

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Thanks Abha and the 20:20 Social team!

The Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) offers a Paragon Fellowship for 100 entrepreneurs from Asia. The profile of the Paragon 100 fellows includes young entrepreneurs and social changemakers of up to 30 years of age who are an inspiration to other young people.

Paragon 100 members are young people who dared to stride out by setting up their own business, social enterprise, NGO or sustainable project. They have overcome challenges by realizing their vision and believing in themselves.

Amongst the top 100 for 2009 is DeskAway’s founder Sahil Parikh!

What is also really cheering is that 48 of the top entrepreneurs are from India! Wow, India is proving itself to be one of the top countries in entrepreneurship! Check out the top 100.

Will keep you updated about the activities happening within the fellowship.

Pluggd.in is a blog about startups, entrepreneurship and tech in the Indian sector. Sahil recently contributed a guest post on common SaaS myths and ways to overcome them.

Using online software to increase productivity and grow your business is a no brainer. I can’t imagine why any small business would not readily adopt SaaS. What’s holding them back (besides poor bandwidth penetration in some areas) when they can pay a monthly subscription, not have to worry about installation, upgrades and have access to the same tools that their competitors have? This is close to having ’software utopia’ for the small business!

Lets go back in time….

- People might not have been prepared to put their money with other people’s money when banking was established. Banking and online banking is mainstream now.

- People were probably afraid to get on an aircraft which weighed a few tones and promised to soar like a bird. Today, air travel is a given.

Back to the present.

Currently, we are witnessing one of the biggest shifts in enterprise software (software used for business) and as everything else, it comes with it’s own set of myths, mindsets and confusion. Here are a few I have experienced over the last few years from people who are still not ready to adopt online software for their business.

“My data is more secure with me than putting it on someone else’s server”

Your data is more secure at your vendor’s data center than your own internal network. Security is more than just about taking daily backups, maintaining uptime and setting up a firewall. It’s about password policies, encryption, intrusion detection, offsite backups, secure transmission, software updates, patching etc. If hosting or maintaining servers is not your core business then you are better off renting out software from a reputed vendor who understands all these things. This will ensure peace of mind in the long run.

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