On January 5th I quickly wrote a short post about how then President-Elect Barack Obama uses blist. That post was published just a few minutes after the CHANGE.GOV site first went live with a blist widget. In that post I described why publishing data in a blist widget greatly improves upon a basic HTML table. [...]
Continue Reading →I wrote a post about how the Obama Administration is using “web 2.0″ software from innovative companies including Google, Facebook, Salesforce, twitter and blist in creative ways. TechCrunch liked the post and offered to run it on their site with a byline of me as guest author. From there, the Washington Post picked it up [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s how to set up a sales tracking application for multiple sales reps in blist using Pick Lists and Lenses. First you create a blist tracking all of your customers, leads, or sales. Then you create and add a Pick List column to your blist with the names of all your sales reps. Lastly, you [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve been a long-time subscriber to the blist blog – you know how insightful and compelling Kevin’s posts on entrepreneurship, startups, technology and venture capital are. Kevin does a great job taking specific lessons learned from his career, telling the stories, and explaining clearly and entertainingly how others can benefit from his experience. Now [...]
Continue Reading →Dan W. is the most tech-savvy board member of a small non-profit charity organization in Toronto, Canada. Dan brought blist into the organization to help plan events, collaborate and organize all the lists: volunteers, donations, etc. that non-profits live and breathe every day. Dan’s organization already had a hosted Microsoft Sharepoint site that they intended [...]
Continue Reading →Recently we released a number of enhancements to the way blist handles copy and pasting, including improved support for copy/paste of cells, multiple columns, and copy/paste between blist and Excel. To get the benefit of these improvements you need to have Flash 10 installed. To determine which version of flash you have running, visit http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ [...]
Continue Reading →In 2002 I wrote a detailed business plan and created the investor presentation deck for MessageRite, my first startup. One of the key slides, or so I thought, was the gratuitous “Exit Strategy” slide. In my slide I described how MessageRite would one day be acquired by one of precisely four companies I cited by [...]
Continue Reading →In December we created a blist to collect all of our New Year’s resolutions. A bunch of blist users joined us and added their own New Year’s Resolutions to the blist – you can see them all here. We drew five names out of a hat to win a $25 Starbucks gift card. Your cards [...]
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