Simplify Your Worklife

“How Do You Manymoon?” is where we highlight members using Manymoon in innovative, fun or creative ways.  Are you using Manymoon in innovative ways?  Tell us how you Manymoon and we’ll highlight your story!

How do you use Manymoon?

Michael La Plante, Web Developer and Designer

I use Manymoon for both work and for personal tasks. I am a Web Developer and do contract work under the name Laplante Web Development. My clients range from small business owners to big corporations based in cities like NY and LA. Manymoon helps me efficiently keep track of all the tasks I have for each client while allowing me to grant access to certain clients for individual tasks. This has helped me and saved me a ton of time when explaining project costs to clients, as I am now able to break everything out in time increments in Manymoon.

How has Manymoon helped you overcome specific challenges?
Manymoon helps me manage my time and allows me to delegate tasks to other people. Manymoon also makes it easy for clients to view the progress of their project and allows them to edit or comment on anything as I am working on their medium.

Before Manymoon I was trying to break everything out in spreadsheets and it would quickly get out of control and be difficult to oversee, especially when managing more than 15+ clients simultaneously.  Most of my client projects consist of what I like to call the total package. I have an intro meeting where we sit down and determine their goals, and from there I go through the design stages, into development and some maintenance after launch of the website.  The biggest feature I enjoy right now is the complete integration with Google apps and Google docs. This makes it easy to share documents digitally and saves me paper costs.

What are some of the results or business improvements you’ve seen since using Manymoon?
Since using Manymoon I have noticed an increase in my productivity on certain projects. I am able to sit down in the morning and have all my tasks laid out for the day so I know exactly on what and for how long I should be working. I am saving myself 20 hrs a week, and the extra hours make for more time for clients or to refine old products which is very helpful.

Manymoon has also helped me to develop better communication with clients, who have often come back for repeat business or just for a general chat. I often invite clients to use Manymoon. The clients who decide to use Manymoon remark on how easy it was to collaborate together and appreciate how much transparency they had in the project development process.

Learn more about Michael’s independent web development and design business at www.michaellaplante.com.

“How Do You Manymoon?” is where we highlight members using Manymoon in innovative, fun or creative ways.  Are you using Manymoon in innovative ways?  Tell us how you Manymoon and we’ll highlight your story!

How do you use Manymoon?

John Horsley, Founder of y2cl Comics

I run a small comic creation studio and currently manage 11 creators around 12 projects and growing.   We use Manymoon from start to finish on our comics. Various people work on each comic, from a writer, to pencils, to colorist and everything in between. We use ManyMoon for notifications and task tracking, to understand what state the project is in.  When the writer completes a strip they then task it to the artist to draw. The artist can then finish the art, complete the task and then creates a task for the person doing the coloring. After that the project is tasked to me to put the branding in and complete the process by getting it in to the queue for posting.

ManyMoon helps us to set up and track tasks and to keep track all of our current creative projects.  Without Manymoon everyone and everything would get lost in the shuffle.

First thing I do in the morning is check my email and then load up ManyMoon to see where my projects are.   During the day, I’ll pop over to Manymoon on my breaks and lunch to check tasks and create new ones.  I mainly use Manymoon in short spurts since time is precious. That’s one of the great things about Manymoon, I can easily use it in short spurts and not need to spend hours upon hours on it.

How has Manymoon helped you overcome specific challenges?
Without Manymoon the re-launch or our offerings that we are doing this summer would be 10x more difficult to manage.  Using Manymoon has increased our productivity on all fronts given how easy it is to manage your tasks.

Manymoon has definitely also improved our team collaboration. It has given us a central place to track everything. Our whole team can now see what the rest of the team is doing with ease. The level and speed in which we are able to produce things has increased what seems to be astronomically. I don’t honestly know how we functioned before it.

What are some of the results or business improvements you’ve seen since using Manymoon? ManyMoon has increased our productivity 10 fold.   Prior to Manymoon everything was done through email. Now everyone seems to be getting more done in a shorter time.

For starters, I can now see when my people finish a task without having to email them to ask.  After initial set up of the projects and task the efficiency is amazing. My people love it as it’s an easy way to see the things they need to work on.  The flexibility in what type of projects you can create and work with make it a valuable tool for us.

One of our team members just returned from a road trip where she used Manymoon to organize and optimize her trip planning!  By being more organized, she and her husband were able to save time, money, and prevent unnecessary hassle while on the road.

Here’s what she did:

Created A Project in Manymoon: Created a Project, called “Summer 2010 Road Trip”, to organize and store all information related to the trip.  Invited her husband to join so that they could all access and contribute to the trip information.

Developed Milestones: Created Milestones for each destination of the trip, storing all the tasks, documents, and links for each destination in one place.

Assigned Tasks: Assigned tasks to each other—everything from booking hotels, renting a car, planning dinners and activities in each spot. Within each task adding helpful links, hotel confirmations, research and destination information, uploaded maps and images–making it easy to locate and access this information while on the road.

Shared Project Calendar: Developed a shared Project calendar to help determine timing and duration of each leg of the trip.  They also add events to the calendar as they were booked, and added additional events from regional community calendars to keep track of cool opportunities while on the road.

Archived Their Trip: Once home, they archived the Project so the trip information is saved and accessible from anywhere.  They also were able to share the Trip Template with their friends interested in planning similar trips.

Start planning your own trip, or use an event planning templates from the Templates Gallery. (Click “Show options” within the “Create Project” tab).  Log-in to your account to get started.

“How Do You Manymoon?” is where we highlight members using Manymoon in innovative, fun or creative ways.  Are you using Manymoon in innovative ways?  Tell us how you Manymoon and we’ll highlight your story!

How do you use Manymoon?

Major Paul S. Cianciolo, CAP

We are using Manymoon to serve as an interactive public relations plan for Civil Air Patrol’s National Capital Wing.  CAP is a nonprofit organization operationally comprised of 52 wings — each state, Puerto Rico and the D.C. metro area.

Instead of an annual plan on paper done once a year, I now develop it in Manymoon so it’s immediately updated as tasks or goals are accomplished.  I can also share tasks with other volunteer officers to help accomplish an objective.  Being able to set milestones, which I consider my objectives, is a great help.  But just the simple tasks assigned to a project and person are helpful.  We are all volunteers and spreading the work out helps get the mission accomplished faster.

How has Manymoon helped you overcome specific challenges?

Prior to Manymoon, I was not using any program except for the Google Calendar tasks.  I did consider uploading DotProject to our server, but it seemed too complicated for most our other volunteer officers.

A written PR plan is required every year but always gets in the way of actually doing the job.  By adding my PR objectives as Manymoon milestones and assigning tasks to each, I can see the results as each is accomplished.  It prevents the “plan” from collecting dust on the shelf.

What are some of the results or business improvements you’ve seen since using Manymoon?

Using Manymoon helps the team stay focused on objectives.

Creating an annual public relations plan is a new requirement requested by our national headquarters.  The goal is to help plan out what to accomplish during the year by setting objectives and goals.  However, once this plan was done, it would sit on a shelf until the next year.  Now I can add, and modify as needed and see my progress throughout the year.   Manymoon was just made available to most of our staff officers and cadets.  We also hope this will also improve our local event and project planning.

Learn more about the Civil Air Patrol’s National Capital Wing.