Smartlife

The modern office contains enough computer equipment to power the first Moon mission, but enough seething resentment to power World War Three. A downtown skyscraper is a gleaming testament to mankind’s achievements, but all karmic monks see is a screaming black hole holding a knife. The combination of “having to deal with other people” and “that’s enough to cause problems, actually” means the average worker has to restrain more negative emotions than Arkham Asylum.

We all know the cliche office annoyances, like the idiot talking about how hard they’re working…

Striking out with a new business is an incredible experience. You finally get to work for yourself, reap the rewards of your hard work and intelligence, and put into practice the millions of ways you could do things better than at your old job. (If you don’t have at least one million improvements in mind, you haven’t worked in an office for longer than a week.)

Becoming a business manager is incredibly liberating. The most important thing to remember as you move on with your business model is resources. You…

Everything is online. You could be working on a virtual team where the collaborators are located all around the globe. No longer are teams necessarily housed in the same building. This is an incredibly flexible proposition, but it also presents a unique set of challenges. How do you, for example, work together on the same document when you never see one another face to face?

Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario that any number of small businesses could face. Imagine that there is a team of ten to twelve individuals and…

Scheduling appointments seems like a simple matter: find an empty space in the calendar and write something down. But the fact of the matter is that there are always complications. Maybe you have to find a spot that fits on a co-worker’s calendar. Maybe you need to make sure you can make it across town in time for the next appointment on your schedule. Thankfully, there are tools out there that are making the process better — they don’t all serve the same purpose, but there are many different ways…

Product/Service Name

KnowledgeTree

Brief Description

KnowledgeTree is a cloud-based document management solution designed to eliminate headaches and turn what was once manual and labor-intensive into a smooth and efficient process. From sorting and organizing volumes of invoices to enabling cross-team collaboration of documents with customized workflows to facilitating contracts management, KnowledgeTree is easy to use, does not require extensive training, and enables content to be accessed and managed anytime. It’s secure, too — content is housed in a secure online environment, access is controlled by flexible group-based permissions, and…