Last week, we had an absolutely great time at Web 2.0 Expo, where we exhibited at the Long Tail Pavilion. It was a major milestone for us because we released the new Wrike beta! To summarize our impressions of the event, it was a blast.  We ran out of all the brochures that we printed for the show, and we had to fetch some more from the office. But we ran out of that supply as well, long before the end of the event. Left empty-handed, we suggested that everyone snap a picture of our cool booth, so they wouldn’t forget to check Wrike out. You can see one of those pics sent to us by our customer.

We were totally delighted with such attention from the attendees. Thank you all for stopping by and spreading the word to your friends and colleagues! Can’t wait to see you all at the next shows.

If you follow our blog closely, you already know that we’re getting ready for a grand release of Wrike’s new version. It will be unveiled during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The release is going to be unforgettable. We are going to demonstrate a solution for unparalleled project collaboration productivity at the Long Tail Pavilion, booth #17. But that’s not all!

To make the event even more exciting, we’re running a FREE giveaway. The prize: none other than your very own Apple Tablet! It’s not a contest; it’s a drawing, so anyone can enter, and everybody has a chance to win. The only thing you need to do is to register for the iPad giveaway and come to our booth #17 at the Long Tail Pavilion of Web 2.0 Expo SF on May 5. The winner will be randomly chosen and announced at 3:30 p.m.

Don’t miss your chance to win your own iPad and be one of the first to see how e-mail inbox chaos can be turned into revolutionary online productivity for a whole team. Register for Wrike’s FREE iPad giveaway now!

Today, we have a special treat for you. But first let us share the fascinating news: Wrike will be presented at the Web 2.0 Expo, the biggest and the most important event in the next-generation technology world. The conference will take place on May 3-6 in San Francisco. The Expo is a must-see for everyone who wants “to do more with less” and cares about embracing and extending the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies. It engages thousands of participants and promises to offer something for everyone: educational sessions from industry experts and keynotes from leading innovators, showcases of the game-changing Web 2.0 companies, such as Wrike, and first-rate networking opportunities.  

Some of you already know that we’ve been passionately working on a few important enhancements for your favorite project management software. Today, we’re happy to announce that these enhancements will be unveiled during the Web2.0 Expo. We promise that this upcoming release will be groundbreaking and unforgettable, and we invite you to share the excitement of the moment with us. The conference organizers authorized our team to provide Wrike customers with FREE Web 2.0 Expo passes and 20% discounts for any conference package! Please e-mail marketing@team.wrike.com for your Web2.0 Expo registration promo code. See you in San Francisco!

What impact does online collaboration make on our everyday lives? We’ll be among those searching for the answer to this question during the upcoming Collaboration 2.0 Conference organized by the SDForum in Santa Clara, Calif. Wrike will be presented at the event, which will be held on October 30 and will gather the industry experts, as well as companies interested in innovating their collaboration practices. Our project management software will be showcased as one of the cutting-edge solutions that streamline collaboration in a corporate environment.

SDForum, the organization behind the conference, is well-known for its successful efforts to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership within Silicon Valley with the help of educational and networking events. The Collaboration 2.0 Conference is one of those events, aiming at exploring the opportunities offered by the innovative Web-based technologies. 

“Online collaboration has augmented current knowledge patterns in corporate environments, improved mindshare, boosted transparency and added a sense of community among coworkers,” state the organizers of the conference.  This is just the beginning of the upcoming discussion of this topic, and we’re looking forward to taking part in it.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the business benefits offered by the innovative collaboration technologies, or if you want to share your own opinion on how Collaboration 2.0 influences the business environment, then we hope to see you among the conference participants on October 30.

Jürgen Oschadleus, MBA, PMP, an international speaker, trainer and consultant on project leadership and communications! He became the winner of the free netbook drawing that was previously announced in our blog. The final phase of the giveaway took place yesterday at the PMI Congress North America 2009. We were thrilled about the vibrant attention of the audience to our drawing. Over 300 people registered for the giveaway, but only one of them turned out to be the lucky winner.

Jürgen came all the way from Australia to give a speech on the role of communications and leadership in project management. We bet he didn’t expect to get a free netbook as a pleasant side benefit. The winner of the drawing held by Wrike is a passionate project management innovator and an advocate of a new management approach focused on conversational leadership. He travels a lot, bringing his knowledge, experience and insight to global audiences. No doubt that Wrike’s prize will be a useful addition to his traveler’s tech kit.

We’d also like to thank all the participants for taking part in our giveaway. We hope to see  you all next year at the PMI Global Congress 2010!

You want to know more about Web 2.0 in project management and like freebies? Then don’t miss your chance to get a FREE Netbook from Wrike at the PMI Global Congress!

We’ve already mentioned that Wrike will be one of the PMI Global Congress participants this October. This grand project management event will be a perfect chance for us to meet people who are passionate about innovations in project management. PMI Global Congress attendees who are interested in accelerating their project team’s productivity with Web 2.0 technologies will receive a free Project Management 2.0 Guide by our founder and the author of the Project Management 2.0 blog, Andrew Filev.

As a pleasant side benefit, those who will come to Wrike’s booth (#933) will be able to enter an instant drawing to get a FREE NETBOOK from Wrike! All the rules of the giveaway will be announced during PMI Global Congress.

The biggest event in the project management world is coming soon, and we’re excited to announce that Wrike will be presented there. PMI Global Congress, North America, organized by the world’s most influential project management organization (the Project Management Institute), will be held October 10–13, 2009.



The Congress promises to be electrifying and fruitful. It will feature over 150 educational sessions, offer useful project management recourses and, most importantly, provide unique networking opportunities for project management professionals.

To match the educational spirit of the event, Wrike will share its knowledge of innovations in the project management space with the Congress attendees. Wrike's CEO, Andrew Filev, a well-known Project Management 2.0 expert, will provide his insight into the next generation project management practices and give away FREE Project Management 2.0 Guides.

So if you want to find out how you can make you project management practices more effective with Web 2.0, join us for a cup of coffee and a thought-provoking conversation at the booth #933.

We’re excited to announce that Wrike was chosen by the Project Management Institute, New Jersey chapter (PMI NJ) team to organize their Seminar at Sea.

PMI is the most influential and popular project management organization in the world. It helps thousands of project managers globally to gain valuable knowledge, network and exchange their experience. That’s why we’re so proud that PMI NJ’s team chose Wrike to be the primary system for managing the Seminar at Sea project.

“We are happy that Wrike helped a distributed team of the seminar’s organizers collaborate more efficiently than before and complete this big project on time,” said Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike.com. “Our focus has always been on reducing the project manager’s routine jobs and maximizing the productivity of the whole team. It’s great that PMI NJ professionals recognized Wrike’s benefits for collaboration and project management.”

The seminar is be a unique opportunity to enjoy the comfort, enjoyment and excitement of cruise travel with a special educational and networking project management experience.  The event is held from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, 2009. We’ll be happy to see you among the participants! 

Wrike’s founder, Andrew Filev, spoke at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Project Management Symposium. The two-day event took place on August 18-19 and was attended by approximately 200 executives, project management professionals, speakers and volunteers – representatives of the nation’s most dynamic organizations. Besides UTD the symposium organizers included PM Forum, an authoritative resource for project management information and knowledge, and Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading membership association for the project management profession.

Topics included project management issues facing organizations from diverse industries, governance problems, emerging trends in project management, questions around managing global teams, new product development and more. 

Andrew gave a presentation about the innovative approach to project management that he advocates in his professional blog. According to Andrew the new approach, called Project Management 2.0 represents the evolution of traditional project management brought by the influence of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. You can find out more about Project Management 2.0 by reading Andrew’s article – “Project Management 2.0:  The Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management” and by digging though his posts in the Project Management 2.0 blog.

Wrike’s CEO and founder Andrew Filev will be speaking at the Office 2.0 Conference for the second time. The conference will be held in San Francisco on September 3-5, 2008. The event gathers the most influential business and technology thinkers, who discuss the future of online productivity and collaboration, and share their ideas on the implementation of the Office 2.0 technologies in different business spheres.

The conference is always a refreshing experience for those who are open to new ways of making a business more productive. Here is the perfect place for you to learn about new, emerging organizing principles and how to create a strategy around them for your company.

There is a terrific set of speakers, including keynotes from David Allen, the creator of the popular Getting Things Done methodology; Dr. Sukh Grewal, manager of GE’s support central, collaboration environment; Oliver Marks, an  expert in effective planning of Enterprise 2.0 strategy; Robert Scoble, the famous technology blogger, and many others. Wrike’s founder will be one of the participants in the Project Management 2.0 panel there. He will present his ideas on innovations brought by the Enterprise 2.0 technologies to project management. You can also read Andrew’s thoughts about Project Management 2.0 in his professional blog.