Is Social Media a Waste of Time In Project Management?

Professional success has always been linked to who you know. Particularly in the professional sphere, people network with like-minded people in order to exchange information with each other. For centuries, people have therefore joined together in guilds, fraternities, associations, etc.
Our modern society is built on countless network structures; we are more connected today than any generation before us. Networks of the 20th and 21st centuries extend across all areas of society and are often not clearly recognizable. The economy is driving this networking even further: globalized flows of goods, international services, working in the cloud, social media. Everything is organized decentrally in networks.
Read more...Happy Holidays and Prosperous New Year!
The whole ProjectWizards team wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and all the best for 2021. Please stay healthy!

Happy 16th Birthday, Merlin Project!

Today 16 years ago our magic project management software Merlin Project was released. Happy birthday.
A good opportunity to say thank you.
- To our developers for your well thought-out approaches and implementation of functional requirements
- To our supporters for your fast and friendly help
- To our partners for their support and mediation
- To Frank Blome, our boss, who challenges and encourages us
But of course also to you, our customers. You support us with your purchase but also with your feedback in the further development of our Merlin products.
Without each and every one of you, Merlin Project would not be the product we all enjoy today. Thank you!
Read more...International Project Management Day

Since 2004, the international project management day is taking place on the first Thursday in November.
Initiated by Laverne Johnson and Lori Milhaven in collaboration with the team at the International Institute of Learning (IIL), its goal is the worldwide recognition of the work of the many project managers and project teams in all industries, including non-profit organizations and the health care sector, who put their time, energy, creativity, innovation and countless hours into providing products, services, facilities and emergency and disaster relief services in every city and community around the world. It recognizes the hard work of project managers and how much they contribute to ensuring that a project is completed efficiently and on time.
Kudos to all project managers worldwide - today is your day!
Read more...Communication From User to User: The Customer Forum

In recent years, the way companies and customers interact with each other has changed. In order to obtain information, many customers prefer open discussion and exchange of opinions instead of the classic communication channels (telephone, e-mail or classic mail). They are happy to use the experience of other users to help them form their own opinions. After all, they often trust these experiences more than the provider himself, who only wants to market and sell his product.
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