posted24/02/10

Fast Online Flowcharts Video Demo

Creately Video Tutorial #4 - Fast Flowcharts with Creately

Today, we show you how to create a fast and easy flowchart to share with your team and clients. In 3 mins flat, we’ll show you why our 1-click Create-N-Connect buttons, easy collaboration and built-in commenting features make Creately the best online flowchart software.


Creately Video Tutorial #4 - Fast Flowcharts with Creately

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posted18/02/10

Ten Categories of Social Media - A Simple Framework

For any business, especially a web startup, having a sensible and comprehensive Social Media strategy is key to online success. To help you work out a comprehensive strategy, we’ve put together a simple framework with Creately that captures the basic aspects of the Social Media landscape that you’ll need to consider.

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Social Media today goes well beyond social networking and blogging. It consists of  many categories, but here we have chosen to highlight 10 key aspects which should be your business’ focus as you start on your Social Media journey. I’ve included two tools for each category to help you put your social media strategy into action.

@Induja

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posted13/02/10

New Project Management & Web Design Templates

Hi, it’s been awhile since we added new Templates to Creately - well at least not in this New Year. So we thought we’d hand out some treats just in time for the Lunar New Year (it is the year of the Tiger after all).

Project Management Templates

First off - a couple of new business Templates to help you with your Project Management diagrams. Every Project Manager needs a good Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Project Team Organizational chart - so @Induja put mouse to pad and created these templates to make your Project Management tasks a wee bit easier.

Work Breakdown Structure Template

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Project Team Organizational Chart

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Matrix Structure Template

We also know many of you today work in cross-functional teams with fairly complex reporting structures - so we’ve added a Matrix Structure Chart to help you and your managers visually capture the who’s who in your project teams.

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Web Design Templates

Don’t worry we never forget our Developer and Designer fans either. This week - 3 new web design templates to help to deliver on your project milestone faster.

First off, a new webpage Wireframe Template that uses a wide range of UI elements to demonstrate the extensive shapes and UI elements we support in Creately (including a Video Player, Google Maps Widget and Breadcrumbs). Besides this, we’ve added 2 new templates to quickly create web Sitemaps and web page flows.

Webpage Wireframe Template

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Website Page Flow Template

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Web Sitemap Template

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Check out how easy it is to work on website wireframes and mockups with Creately. As always, you’ll find these new templates right there in the “Create New Diagram” window in Creately - so login to check them out.

We hope you’ll benefit from these templates. If you’ve got suggestions for new Templates - just drop us a note or send us a tweet - We’re always listening.

@Charan

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posted08/02/10

What’s going on @Creately

As Twitter becomes more popular and pervasive, it has become an essential tool for start-ups to engage with their customers. Here at Creately, we actively engage our users, supporters and even the occasional detractor on Twitter.

Recently, we wanted to understand what our customers say to us on Twitter so @Indu went through our Twitter archives and put together this simple connections map of our @Creately Twitter account to capture some of our more active users and what they’re been talking to us about.

Who’s Talking to Creately & What are they Saying.

As @Indu worked on the diagram, she decided to pull together some recent Tweets about Creately to share with the team and you - our customers.

  • b3nw: saved by a javascript app creately - http://creately.com after MS Visio just refused to link things, whew. Best $5 i’ve spent in along time.
  • UrbanHaiku: learning how to use creately.com to make a flowchart for my blog. I like it.
  • JasonStoddard: Highly recommend @creately & checking out their mindmapping/diagram solution. Hosted. Elegant. Stupid-simple. #FF
  • megormi: I made some interesting graphic organizers today using creately.com thanks to the suggestion by@socratech
  • nocash: Been looking for something like this for a while: Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Creately -http://creately.com/
  • Rohlund: I highly recommend checking out creately.com if Microsoft Visio is not your friend. #ittools

Thank you for all your tweets. We try to respond to each and everyone of them - so if you’ve enjoyed using Creately - tell us - we’re always listening on Twitter.

If you’re not following Creately on Twitter - now’s the time.

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