When the calendar flipped over to April our “31 Days of Twitter Coupons” campaign came to an end. But it doesn’t mean we’ve quit tweeting. Au contraire, mes amis. There’s still lots of great news and insight into your favorite web timesheet company coming out via the Twitter pipe every day.

Not only that, but Journyx is also chatting up a storm and helping people out on our Facebook page and via our Timesheet Users’ Group on LinkedIn. Give us a bit of your Web2.0 attention and we’ll reward you with all kinds of fun and friendship.

Speaking of LinkedIn and Facebook… it’s a little too soon to let the cat out of the bag, but let’s just say that something akin to the “31 Days of Twitter Coupons” might be in the works for one, the other, or both of those august social networking sites. It might even be the case that people who are already connected to Journyx there would get, shall we say, preferential treatment when the time comes to release the feline. Just sayin’.

Journyx today announces that Event 360, Inc. is managing its projects, resources and time more effectively with Journyx ProjectXecute. Journyx ProjectXecute unites project planning with resource management, helping companies to execute projects successfully every time and achieve the highest return on investment possible.

Event 360 – the nation’s leading designer and director of fundraising, advocacy and awareness events for nonprofits – hosts hundreds of events with thousands of volunteers each year. Each event has many components, programs, resources, etc., that must be handled seamlessly for the event to run perfectly. Event 360 sought a better way to manage all of these resources to ensure that all events ran as smoothly as possible for their clients. Journyx ProjectXecute shows customers who is working on what, when they’ll be finished and who is available for the next project. This information allows Event 360 to determine which projects are in danger and why.

Read the rest of the press release at the Journyx website.

Some companies have a “PMO of one,” which means that instead of setting up a sophisticated project management office, they assign one person the task of establishing and enforcing common project management processes. This person often has to deal with a broad spectrum of project work being performed by different teams with a range of maturity levels, which is no small task! Yet it can be necessary for a number of reasons, including the fact that establishing processes helps to move an organization toward maturity. The Project Management Institute (PMI) highlights the benefits of this… read more

Feeling nostalgic for our webinars? Not to worry! Journyx is now offering three of your favorites from last season, as well as two brand new ones. If you’re interested in learning how to extend Microsoft Project, enhance customer experience or better align IT with the organization, sign up now at: http://projectxecute.com/?q=webinars.html.

Collecting money is a job most people shy away from. No one likes a confrontation or asking to be paid. For some people, being asked to pay a bill is insulting and can result in defensive behaviors. How can you collect money from these customers without blowing up at them and losing your cool? read more

Journyx is pleased to announce that the latest versions of our applications, Journyx Timesheet 7.9 and Journyx ProjectXecute 8.5, are now available to the public.

Numerous enhancements and improvements to the user interface have been included in both products, as well as bug fixes and usability and performance improvements that, though not flashy, will make a grown man cry tears of joy.

Please Note: Timesheet 7.9 also serves as the latest maintenance release for Timesheet 7.8 and earlier. Customers using earlier versions of Timesheet are encouraged to upgrade to Timesheet 7.9.

Existing Timesheet customers can request the Timesheet 7.9 patch on our site.

Existing ProjectXecute customers should contact Journyx to receive the ProjectXecute 8.5 patch.

To see Timesheet 7.9 in action please contact the Timesheet Sales Team.

To see ProjectXecute 8.5 in action please contact the ProjectXecute Sales Team.

Sign up for a 30-day free trial of Timesheet 7.9.

You probably have overheard these words: software as a service. You may even have nodded knowingly despite not knowing much more than that they’re more easily digestible as the acronym SaaS (rhymes with the thing that holds your evening martini).

It’s pretty easy to get swept up in technology debates about what constitutes SaaS–is it the same as cloud computing or different? But you know what? You don’t need to know what it is; you just need to know what it does for your growing business. As for what it does, we’ll answer that question with another: What if you no longer had to spend thousands of dollars a year on communications gear, computer software and overall internal IT management? read more

Your friends at Journyx like sports. We also like games. Ergo, we’re really excited about our brand new March Madness Bracket Game. We’ve got room for 400 folks to take part in this contest of skill, strategy, knowledge and luck. The winner of the bracket challenge will receive an iPod Touch.

If you’d like to take part, drop our organizers a line at bracket@journyx.com and they’ll slide an invite your way.

Oh, and for the record, Journyx employees and their families are not eligible to play. So you don’t have to worry about competing with our in-house bracketologists.

The Journyx “31 Days of Journyx Twitter Coupons” campaign is in full swing, and if you haven’t taken part just yet, there’s still time to get in on the action.

We’ve already given away 15 free licenses of Journyx Timesheet to the fine folks at MIT and to the rockstars at Conner Clark. Hillary Laza is the fortunate soul who gets to have dinner with Journyx CEO Curt Finch and Daniel Ordway was the lucky winner of an iPod Touch.

There’s still an Amazon Kindle, tickets to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the grand prize of 50 Timesheet licenses left to win.

You can find out the full details on this crazy, one-of-a-kind social-media-based festival of prizes on our website. But all you really need to know is that following us on Twitter is the key to playing.

1) If you’re going to put the fox in charge of the henhouse, plan on losing some chickens. If the project manager (PM) is seeing the project only as a means of showcasing themselves and their talents, or a way to bring negative and/or false information regarding coworkers to management, you can lose your best people. This can work as a way to make the messenger look superior, make other team members look bad or to shift blame. It will anger the better workers and send the poorer ones scurrying for their resumes coming out of the shared laser printer. Both reactions suction energy from the project…… read more