Eating our own dog food

At Ripped Orange we train on many applications, we also use the tools we train and many more on a daily basis.

Here is a quick overview of some of the applications we use daily. For some applications it’s a bit like a builders house that is never finished, for others we are really happy and have the application adding real value.

File Sharing SharePoint Dropbox Google Drive SkyDrive	Social Media Hootsuite Facebook Twitter Linkedin Blogger	Office Applications Office 365 Word Excel Access PowerPoint OneNote Google Apps Project Visio
Financials Xero Workflow Max	Marketing and CRM Microsoft CRM - 2011 Mail Chimp Survey Monkey Eventbrite Google Analytics Google Add Words	Communications Linc Skype 2 Talk Last Pass Outlook Gmail

The challenge we have is similar to many organisations. How to evaluate what is available and what will suit our needs. For some tools this is easy for others there are a variety of comparisons and trade-offs to be made.