Author Archives: admin

What is different about Glasnost ?

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 [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Glasnost reporting options

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 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Glasnost goes to the Antartic !

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 [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Glasnost in action.

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 [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

IE6 – Not an issue here !

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Eight years old it is has not only been superceded by IE7 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Where did Glasnost come from ?

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 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Some New Features

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 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Glasnost – What’s in a name ?

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 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Welcome to Glasnost : Who’s behind Glasnost?

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 [...]

Posted in Glasnost | Leave a comment

Glasnost is a cloud-based Project, Contact and Image Management tool for desktop and iPhone. This is the developer blog with Glasnost news & views.

For more general information, please see the main Glasnost website