By admin | Published:
October 6, 2009
The other day we were asked to say, in just a few hundred characters, what was different about Glasnost.
We decided, in essence, that Glasnost is different in four ways:
First, it is specifically designed for collaboration outside the firewall, with clients and suppliers as well as colleagues.
Secondly, as an Adobe Flex application it provides [...]
By admin | Published:
September 29, 2009
Glasnost provides various reporting options.
Contact Management
You can perform a contact or company search (simple keyword, by tag or using the advanced option) and then when the pop up results are shown you can click on ‘Export to Excel’.
You can create task reports. To do this click on search tasks in the left hand menu [...]
By admin | Published:
September 24, 2009
The Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition will see 8 women from the Commonwealth countries of Cyprus, Ghana, India, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand, Jamaica and the United Kingdom brave blizzards, crevasses and temperatures below -30C as they ski over 900 kilometres across Antarctica to the Geographic South Pole.
As well as building them a website – www.kasperskycommonwealthexpedition.com [...]
By admin | Published:
August 19, 2009
As a software company we often work on projects with many different parties. Below is a real world example of a recent project which demonstrates how Glasnost can be used to bring everyone together and generate deep, productive collaboration.
A client was looking to do a major revamp of their corporate marketing site, involving a [...]
By admin | Published:
August 15, 2009
As many people know the dreaded browser Internet Explorer 6 is still used by 20% or so of Internet users. Admittedly this is more in a corporate environment than amongst home users, but nevertheless it is, to the developer community, an astonishing figure.
Eight years old it is has not only been superceded by IE7 [...]
By admin | Published:
August 10, 2009
Glasnost was initially developed for our own use. As a company that did not exist before the Internet we have always operated pretty much virtually. We have always needed our tasks, comments and documents to be instantly available to team members via the Internet. Coding takes place via a VPN (Virtual Private Network) but [...]
By admin | Published:
July 24, 2009
We’ve been working away on some new features following requests from users.
In Contact Management there is now a ‘Bulk Import Contact’ feature which speeds up the process of adding multiple new entries into Glasnost. We provide a sample csv file which shows you the ‘best’ format to use during the import process, though you [...]
By admin | Published:
June 15, 2009
Perhaps you need to be of a certain age to instinctively appreciate the significance of the word Glasnost, but we think what it encapsulates has a timeless quality and is particularly pertinent to the early years of the 21st Century.
The BBC has described Glasnost as ’the spirit of openness encouraged by former Soviet leader Mikhail [...]
By admin | Published:
June 15, 2009
Glasnost has been developed by Estates Today and we are a software company that has been building web applications since the early days of the internet in 1995. Our specialist area has been in websites, intranets and business applications for the UK Commercial Property Industry.
We run the Office Market Research website, www.cityoffices.net, manage [...]