Monitoring project statuses, sorting out responsibilities and deadlines, managing documents – how much time and effort do you need to invest in these routine tasks? Tipton Communications, an award-winning company providing PR services, estimates that project administration consumed up to 10% of their working hours. As more new members joined the team and the complexity of business grew, it was getting really challenging for the company’s managers to keep an eye on all the ongoing projects. Team members sometimes duplicated tasks because they didn’t know what exactly their colleagues were working on. Manual project-tracking methods used by Tipton didn’t prevent slips in the workflow. The company’s managers realized they needed a reliable project management application to prevent further problems that would be a potential threat to the corporate image.

Adoption of Wrike brought quick improvements both to managers and team members. “Wrike has been the most productive tool we have added to our arsenal since I started this business nearly five years ago,” says Dan Tipton, president and CEO at Tipton Communications. Read the whole interview with Dan to find out why Wrike turned out to be the best match for the company’s needs and how the workflow at Tipton has changed since it adopted this project management software. 

Soccer teams aren’t the only ones with lots of supporters. Wrike has its own fans, too! Today, we’re excited to introduce you to one of the most active of them – Jeff LeRoy, also known as @WrikeFan on Twitter.  

Wrike’s customer base is constantly growing, and it’s very pleasing to see that some of our users are actively spreading the word about their favorite project management software. Thanks so much, Jeff! We greatly appreciate your support!

When your small team has to collaborate with numerous external partners, it’s an extra challenge to organize effective collaboration. Is it possible to manage the information flow under the high pressure of multitasking so that no tasks are forgotten, no documents are lost and everyone is kept up-to-date? Hildebrands GmbH, a German company that provides shop fitting solutions, works with 30+ external partners, so they’re very familiar with this situation. They found a solution to handle it. “Wrike minimizes the need to make numerous phone calls and send dozens of emails when working on a project. Wrike automatically takes care of a lot of routine communication tasks. Everyone who is involved gets instantly notified about the updates in the schedule,” says Gunter Hildebrand, managing partner at Hildebrands.

Read the whole interview with Gunter to find out how Wrike helped his company to save 25% of time spent on routine project communication tasks and to organize effective project collaboration with numerous external partners distributed all over Europe.

It’s been quite a long time since Wrike’s outreach became global. We have users in all regions of the world. So we associate a lot of countries not only with their internationally famous landmarks and significant events, but also with the customers that we have there. For instance, right now you hear everyone talk about South Africa as the Soccer World Cup host country. But at Wrike we also talk about our fast-growing customer community there (which is hopefully enjoying the World Cup matches).

Some of South African Wrike subscribers have become true evangelists! One of the most prominent among them is ChaiFM. It’s a Jewish community radio station based in the Johannesburg area. Since 2008, ChaiFM broadcasts a wide range of programs covering various social matters, business, entertainment and other topics. Knowing how actively these guys spread the word about Wrike, we are sure to see more South African project managers become our customers soon. 

It’s an undeniable fact that people’s opinions differ. And even if several individuals are united with one goal, they don’t necessarily go the same way toward achieving it. This is as true for project teamwork as for any kind of cooperation. All the team members may have different views of the project, and everyone certainly has his or her own working habits. 

There has to be an opportunity to accommodate a variety of opinions in order to collaborate efficiently, according to Rurik Bradbury, chief marketing officer at Unison Technologies. Unison provides unified communications solutions to help businesses become more productive with their communications.  Aimed at increasing its own productivity, the company was looking for flexible project management software that would fit into the way its international team works.  “A good collaboration and project management solution is essential for getting things done in a team, especially in a distributed one,” says Rurik. It took Unison Technologies quite a long time to find the right tool. Most of the products the team tried had a unified structure of projects, which didn’t provide the flexibility the company needed. Thus, there was no gain in productivity.

However, it turned out to be absolutely different with Wrike. Unison Technologies has seen a major improvement in productivity after adopting the tool. Read the whole interview to find out how Wrike allowed a team separated by oceans to increase the number of completed tasks by 20%. 

The new Wrike release has generated a lot of extra buzz. In the past couple of weeks, we were happy to see Wrike popping up in more and more Twitter posts. Those were endorsements of Wrike by existing subscribers, as well as the first impressions of the new users. Here’s a digest of the most interesting tweets. Read what Wrike users had to share with the world:

nathanelliott @itsChance I'm loving @wrike for online collaborative project management / timeline. You should check it out.

bradmcdiarmid Looking for an alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint? Check out the easy to use Wrike at http://www.wrike.com/r/1L3IU 

motherlake_jp Have you tried the project management tool "Wrike"? It's really nice. Like Basecamp + Gantt chart. http://www.wrike.com/r/5XIGV

varithk PM SOFTWARE Wrike works fine for me

rareplay > Allows you to share plans and work on them together: http://www.wrike.com/ 

StephGeyer Have started using wrike.com for project management. Use this referral link if you want to check it out, too. http://www.wrike.com/r/D2RFC

bionicturtle our essential virtual business tools are @wrike (PM), @xero (accounting), @dropbox (files), @diigo (link, research collab)

bionicturtle i am liking the new @wrike beta

lauraschulz Playing with my newfound toys at #w2e: Wrike.com (proj man.), iPlotz (wireframing), raven cloud (process design).

harrymahardhika Project Management Software, Project Planning Software, Time Tracking Software: Wrike http://ff.im/jnry9

tinyrooster @cherylprolapse activecollab is full-featured but pricey! I liked wrike the best of ones you mentioned, looks easy to use and not overkill

Achint Glad to be Finally moving up from Excel for our Project Mgmt. Love the visual time-lines of Wrike

Thanks for spreading the word about Wrike! To keep up with all our news and recent updates, follow @wrike on Twitter.

What helps Wrike to gain its users’ loyalty? That’s what you’ll learn from the new portion of Wrike users’ tweets that we’ve collected in the past few weeks. Read what they think of the product features and how Wrike responds to their business needs. We must say we are really proud to get positive comments from those who have chosen Wrike!  

WaveTekk http://www.wrike.com project managemen tools with 30-day trial, also they are provided video instruction, and really carry out our needs.
 
KarlieMacG @Consider_IT Wrike...I like it....ALOT :)
 
Consider_IT @KarlieMacG Wrike is good :)
 
krish_int http://www.wrike.com/- I think this can also be a better alternative to Deskaway as one can manage as many projects as you like  free Try!
 
tm65 Wrike seems like a nice tool.
 
lkr @ramit I would just contact @wrike, they have 99% of what u want out of the box, could maybe do a custom solution on the rest for u
 
millca @viticci Check out @wrike  --> It is the best project management software I've found -- soon to have an iPhone app too!
 
LovelyLauraRose I wrike! :)
 
mr_credit Wrike - Programming Blog: Active in over 50 countries, Wrike is often used by small business managers as well as v... http://bit.ly/c31THO
 
andreaverdiani Wrike: What can you use the application for? Wrike is an intuitive project management web... http://bit.ly/bi5rNd
 
andrewsthoughts Recent betas that I love the most: Google Voice international calls on Nexus and upcoming Wrike 3.0 release
 
lkr Two companies that keep my biz going: @infusionsoft & @wrike. Thank you both for listening to my feedback constantly improving!
 
core @marcomalacarne Wrike does a few things right. It has gantt charts and an integrated e-mail workflow.
 
emdyard Scheduling: Wrike Fine-tunes Project Scheduling, Doubles Task Management ... http://bit.ly/daPPiO
 
FRMNTRNSPRT WRIKE is the way we manage. www.wrike.com.
 
nancymyrland Project Management Software --> RT @wrike: @pricklypig any questions abt Wrike, we'll be happy to help! http://www.wrike.com
 
rjamestaylor Just received a personal note along with chocolate to check out a new product integration with Google Wave. It worked, @Wrike!
 
Keep sharing your thoughts about Wrike! By the way, it’s high time to become our follower on Twitter, if you’re not one yet. 

Transparent workflows are a key to successful project completion and efficiency of any organization. However, getting an insight into what each team member is occupied with at any given moment of time may be challenging for almost every manager, to say nothing of a person in charge of multiple international projects, involving hundreds of thousands of volunteers from all over the world. Yet, Ryan Wood, COO at Absolute.org, a charitable non-profit organization, helping people in need in different corners of the globe, found an elegant solution to this common problem.  Absolute.org’s team adopted Wrike as a project and workflow management system and the project management software changed the way people were collaborating on tasks.  “Each team member can see what is happening on the projects that he or she is involved in. All the project schedules are up-to-date, as the changes made by other team members are seen in real time,” says Ryan. Read the rest of the story and find out why Absolute.org chose Wrike over other project management tools.

How do you get your team to fully adopt new project management software from Day 1? This can be a tricky question, as implementing a new system always involves training of your staff, which can take up to several months, right?

Yet Adrian McDonagh, Managing Director at the U.K.’s leading Internet recruitment service, EasyWebRecruitment.com, was able to find a solution that was thoroughly adopted by his team of 15 people from the first day of use. Does he know some kind of secret?

Well, this secret is simple: successful adoption is not about the tool. It’s about your team being able to use it. Adrian knows that when you look for a new software solution, it’s important to pick an application, which ties in with the technologies your employees already use and love. This lets you sneak the new system into your team members' hands while providing a familiar interface. So if you don’t want to put additional training pressure on your staff, find a system that fits the existing workflows and integrates with apps that your team members already know. This was exactly what Adrian did when he offered Wrike to his team to use for project and task management.

“Our major challenge with all the project management systems was adoption. The team was already working very hard, and we did not want to add something to their day that would take a lot of time and training to get to grips with, or add to their administrative burden. It was completely different with Wrike. I was pleased to see that, once I showed the team how simple Wrike was, even the more skeptical members of the team were quickly convinced, ” says Adrian. What became the key to 100% Wrike adoption by the EasyWebRecruitment team? Read the whole interview with the company’s managing director to find out.

Wrike’s Google Wave integration buzz, our new users’ first impressions and Wrike evangelists' opinions – brought to you fresh, hot and crispy from Twitter.

Strategy First impressions on Wrike - really like the structure. Far easier to use than Basecamp or 5pm.

stoner43 @dawnbierschwal awesome, thank you!  that wrike.com looks pretty cool

hymseo http://bit.ly/aIm1aA - Wrike.com's Project Management meets Google Wave

rubycut  @wrike This is what I was looking for.

WalterNaeslund   Here comes usefulness! RT @ydring: Wrike integrates Google Wave
into their PM-tool. Seems like a good idea: http://bit.ly/dAkFHk

TheGoogleNinja   Wrike.com’s Project Management meets Google Wave http://bit.ly/d2s3es #google

laurenkuhlman I considered giving basecamp a try but I am back to wrike.

TechSauce New Project Management in Google Wave from Wrike.com http://bit.ly/9tQWUJ #wave #google

GoogleAppsNews  Google Wave Gets Project Management Via Wrike.com http://bit.ly/cnZyRZ

JohnFontana #Wrike releases project management that integrates with Google Wave platform. Projects, tasks, due dates, scheduling, comments.

lkr @DuaneStorey We use wrike, like it better

kolcoo Tools: Wrike (Project Management Software) converts your e-mails into shared plans on the Web http://bit.ly/REdL

And one more from our French-speaking followers : isa2886 Wrike application de gestion de projet en ligne. Planning, temps passés,...  http://bit.ly/9KILKX

By the way, we’re happy to notice that Wrike has been listed 25 times! Is Wrike a part of your faves list yet? List it right now!