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Get Rid Of Visio - Gliffy Rocks!

Posted by John-Scott Dixon on Thursday, March 19, 2009, In : Web 2.0

I have already told you in a past post that I replaced Microsoft's Visio with Gliffy. What I am going to do here is give you the reasons why.

First - Gliffy is Free to use forever (with restrictions - like only 5 public documents). So, once you try it and find out that it works just like Visio, but better because of easy collaboration and access from any computer, you will probably want to subscribe at $30 a year. Compare that to Visio at $259.95 for Standard 2007 ($559.95 for Professional 2...

Say No To Desktop Applications!

Posted by John-Scott Dixon on Thursday, March 19, 2009, In : Web 2.0

This will be quick! I really just want to make a quick list of Web 2.0 applications that I am using to stay productive by working as much as possible in a Web browser. It is really a hot topic for me. For the last two years, I have been working to eliminate all desktop applications. With the exception of Skype and Acrobat Reader - I have done it!

Tools I use to do my job:

Google Docs - this is for collaborative word processing with easy-to-use tables. It is feature-rich - just like Word. In...

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About Me

John-Scott Dixon

Phoenix

I have over 16 years of experience managing and leading the Ecommerce efforts of medium and large companies. I have held sales, sales management, marketing, operations, IS/IT, legal and executive management positions in start-up to multi-billion dollar organizations. I have also served as an adjunct professor of Ecommerce for the MBA program of the University of Missouri (where I received an MBA concentrated in Direct Marketing in 1989). I led the Ecommerce initiative for Sprint PCS (PCS) and Sprint (FON) as Vice President of Ecommerce. I led the integrated marketing efforts for Insight (NSIT) as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Ecommerce. Today, I am the President of Aidan Taylor - a Web marketing company.