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  After Microsoft has aquired Yammer, there has been a number of high profile defections and complaints , regarding service reliability. Yammer status page itself shows there's at least one serious outage/tech issue each month with Yammer/Microsoft which is unacceptable to most businesses. The good news there are a number of Yammer alternatives that you can use - and some even offer more features, while costing much less (or being entirely free), so let's take a look at them. 1. Bitrix24.com Bitrix24 is often considered the best among Yammer alternatives on the grounds that it's 100% free for small companies/departments and that it comes with a number of features unavailable in Yammer itself - namely really powerfull CRM , Dropbox-like Bitrix24.Drive, Project Management, File Sharing and 30+ enterprise tools . Another important advantage over other Yammer alternatives is the fact that with Bitrix24 you can choose between a cloud based SaaS option or host Bitrix24 on your o...

Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency https://silp.com/ Social recruiting is gaining traction nowadays. With the amount of information people are willing to divulge about themselves online, especially on social networking sites, that doesn’t come as a surprise. More information means more facts and figures for interested parties, like recruiting professionals, to sort through. While there already are a handful of companies making waves in the field of social recruiting, like BranchOut and Path.to, Silp, a social recruiting startup, seeks to introduce a new angle to social recruiting – passive recruitment, as co-founder Dominik Grolimund, calls it. Grolimund is not new to the startup scene. He is the brains behind Wuala, an online storage company that he later sold to LaCie, which was consequently acquired by SeaGate. Passive recruiting, in a nutshell, isn’t for people looking to find jobs immediately. Instead, it is designed in such a way that p...

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How to get rich the smart way? Looking for internet business ideas? Read what some creative people did: 1. Million Dollar Homepage 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. 2. PickyDomains Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you? No way people would pay for this. Actually, naming domain names for others turned out a thriving business, especially, when you make the entire process risk free. PickyDomains currently has a waiting list of people who want to PAY the service to come up with a snappy memorable domain name. PickyDomains is expected to hit six figures this year. Full Story 3. Doggles Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops al...

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Hot Tips - The Best Free Business Tool You (Probably) Don't Know About. http://www.xsyncapp.com/ If a friend tells you he’s trying to send a 4GB video file to you as an e-mail attachment, you probably already know what to expect: no 4GB video file hitting your inbox anytime soon. Being too large, the attachment can be rejected, or worse, your friend may experience file upload or Internet speed trouble somewhere along the way and simply choose to give up. In other words, the cons far outweigh the pros. Now, if your friend is using a smartphone to send the file, he doesn’t have to go through the laborious typing-and-attaching game given that there is a more effortless option in the form of a file-sharing app for smartphones called Bump. With over 100 million downloads to date, Bump has made photo, video and contact information exchange between two users a whole lot easier with a bump – yes, a literal tap or bump of their phones. But what if you’re some kind of a germaphobe and don’t ...

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