IntroductionI. What is Asana? (I thought it related to yoga...)Asana is the epicenter of our productivity at DoStuff and will be the epicenter of productivity for your DoXXX team (if it isn’t already). So what is it exactly? It’s not email or a calendar or a simple to-do list. It combines a bit of all of these tools as a comprehensive task management system. Most basically, with it you can:
Check out Asana’s Guide: Basics to read their explanation. II. Why Asana?There are many components, both minor and major, that contribute to maintaining and growing your business. You have a team of a few members who share a range of responsibilities regarding your DoXXX content, partner relationships, social media, and office stuff. Add to the mix random ideas that you want to capture, DoStuff needs, and new interns or hires to include. Your business will quickly become a complicated beast to tame. Here’s Do512’s advice to new teams: “Take it from us, use Asana. Don’t not have a system to keep up with all of the [stuff] or you will never keep up with all of the [stuff]. Right now is only the beginning, it’s as easy as it will ever be for you.” Asana uncomplicates the beast. By breaking down the various components of maintaining and growing your business into projects and tasks with projects, it creates a targeted to-do list. By way of due dates and priority-designation, it enables you to stay on top of what needs to get done when. By allowing you to assign tasks and comment around tasks, it facilitates communication in a more efficient way than e-mail. Asana is the most effective tool we have found for Getting Things Done so that you can increase your productivity. Try it to believe it. III. How to Use ItThis series of articles and tutorials will go into our specific recommendations for how you can make Asana work for you. Here is a general outline for how you will use it:
IV. Have we convinced you yet?If we haven’t, Asana bears systematically trying out to appreciate its utility. Our recommendations are based on what we have seen works best, but we want your feedback for what does not necessarily work for you. That way, we can improve our recommendations and even our own efficiency. |
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