Here are a couple of examples:

Questions workflow, we have observed many people using tibbr to ask questions. Now we have a workflow to ensure questions get answers. By default accounts start with a project “questions”. So, that means if you put “#question” in your tibbr post, it will setup all the required tracking.

Bugs workflows. Again, we have seen companies using tibbr to talk about bugs in code and systems. These conversations can now be tracked to resolution meaning more happy customers and less problems.

Interested to see how workflows are created, checkout our YouTube video on creating Teamly workflows.

Have another idea for a workflow? Tell us about it in the comments!

So what are Teamly projects?

They are about actual projects within your company, unlike subjects which are about accountably. Projects are for grouping tasks within a scope. For instance a key customer, a significant process or well, a project.

What are the key benefits of projects?

Projects come with both a custom default workflow and a quick access #command. As well as letting you group all the tasks within a project for organization and management.

How can projects be used?

So lets take a use case, writing a blog your company. The project is called blog. Somebody comes up with a blog idea, so they post on tibbr “We should write a #blog post about the downtown project in las vegas” and of course they may attach a photo if they are out in the field with the tibbr mobile app.

After the user posts this, they go back to work. However, in the background, teamly picks up this post and because there is a “#blog”, a task is created and entered into the blog project and workflow. Meaning you can track from concept all the way through to publishing, all from a simple post by a person with an idea. Nice eh?

Tell us what you think in the comments and sign up for tibbr Teamly Tasks in the marketplace today.

New in this release

• Massive user experience improvements, designed to let you work faster and smarter
• Custom workflows and designer, letting you tailor your processes
• Project Management with #project access from wall posts
• tibbr wall dropdown that lets you create tasks
• Follow tasks, learn about important changes and act
• Faster load times and access
• Detailed task histories, see what changed, when and by whom
• Question workflow, make sure you always get answers
• Bug workflow, make sure your reported problems get fixed

We will be diving deeper into some of the new functionality in future posts, make sure you are subscribed to this blog.

Try these improvements by installing the tibbr Teamly Tasks app from the marketplace and enjoy a 30 day risk free trial .

As always tell us what you think using the comments.

With the transition to a knowledge economy employees are the most important asset of nearly every company, so why are we still doing annual reviews the same way we always have?

This webinar will outline the trends in Human Capital Management (HCM) and shows how Teamly and tibbr together provide an effective, real-time way to engage, retain, motivate and align employees. (Organisations with higher employee engagement report 22% higher shareholder returns!).

What we’ll cover:

• Trends in the workforce and what this means for HR processes
• tibbr, the Social Network for Work
• Teamly, Social Performance Management built into tibbr
• Q&A

Presenters:

Scott Allison, CEO, Teamly

A contributor at Forbes.com, Scott is a third time entrepreneur who founded Teamly after seeing the challenge of managing performance in the workplace in his previous company, an award-winning telecommunications provider. At college he studied entrepreneurship, marketing and human resource management in his native Scotland.

Chieng Moua, Senior Solution Consultant, TIBCO Software

Chieng is a thought-leader in Enterprise Social Collaboration, currently helping companies successfully deploy the tibbr social platform for knowledge sharing and problem solving. He’s worked with Fortune 1000 companies in his roles as BI and HCM consultant, and additionally was a Product Consultant at PeopleSoft, now part of Oracle.

Register now for our upcoming webinar: Social Performance Management; Engage Your Employees Everyday and Kill the Annual Review.

When: May 30, 2013 at 10am PDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm EDT, 6pm BST, 7pm CET

Duration: 1 hour, including Q&A.

Audience: Managers, C level execs, and HR Specialists.

Cost: Free

What is Teamly?

Teamly is a Social Performance Management solution integrated tightly with tibbr, the Social Network for Work. Teamly includes performance reviews, goal management, recognition, and task management. It’s also integrated with tibbr mobile and desktop apps.

Who is Teamly for?

Teamly helps companies – particularly those with a high proportion of knowledge workers – retain, engage and motivate their people.

What problem does Teamly solve?

Teamly brings performance and productivity management to the social arena inside tibbr. By increasing employee engagement, and increasing retention, companies can significantly improve performance.

Why should you choose Teamly?

There is a war for talent going on and you need the right tools to compete. The annual performance review has typically been seen as a chore, and traditional HR software often goes unused. Teamly makes goal setting and reviewing performance more social and engaging than ever before.

Teamly’s Social Performance Management software has 4 key parts:

Reviews

Turn periodic performance reviews into a painless process with Teamly Reviews, inside tibbr. Using data already stored on an employee’s Teamly profile a complete picture of employee performance in real-time emerges. A person’s Goals, Recognition and Tasks shared or created using Teamly and tibbr makes this a richer and more complete picture of performance.

Recognition

Employees are already using tibbr to praise colleagues for their success, Teamly Recognition allows that thanks to be easily captured on employee profiles. Individuals are able to build their reputation and managers are able to more easily recognize star performers.

Goals

Align employees around company goals and drive your organization’s performance. Goals created in Teamly are inherently social as they are posted on the tibbr wall. Colleagues’ comments of support and encouragement will be tied to that goal and visible any time by individual or manager.

Tasks

Teamly Tasks turns a flow of conversations into an organized list. Take discussions on the tibbr wall and turn them into actionable tasks. Conversations about products, customers or suppliers become part of an easy to manage task list right inside of tibbr.

Visit booth 521 to meet with us, get a demo, or request a meeting!

You can also enquire online about Teamly.

The annual review doesn’t have to be a pain, so why is it managers and employees alike dread the whole process? Instead of once-a-year static annual reviews, more and more businesses are discovering that changing to a socially aware approach to managing people, is both easier and more effective. That’s exactly what Teamly does, right inside of tibbr.

There’s a very good business reason to take a real-time approach to performance management; research from HR experts, Bersin by Deloitte shows that companies which revisit goals for employees quarterly, outperform those which set goals annually by more than 30%. That’s why goal setting is a key part of Teamly.

It’s true that for every company, its key asset are its employees, and how you find, recruit, engage, motivate and manage those people is going to make a big difference to everything from customer satisfaction, innovation, and staff turnover.

When you think about HR you realize that nearly every aspect of it can be enhanced by adding a company-wide social platform. The main benefits of company social networks are well understood, including saving time, improved knowledge sharing and more engaged employees. In contrast we hear from companies that the main problem of their HR software is that it just doesn’t get used much.

Instead, with Teamly and tibbr it becomes easy to create reviews, update goals, and plan your actions. Our modules include performance reviews, employee recognition, goal setting and review, and even task management, and it’s been designed around people, not processes. Our integrated approach takes people from thinking and planning, all the way through to implementation and review; accountability in a social context.

Analysts predict that 75% of enterprise-level businesses will have a social platform in 2013, if you’d like to find out Teamly can enhance your HR practices alongside tibbr, visit the Teamly website or get in touch. And if you’re already using tibbr, visit the App Marketplace and click Install.

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A version of this post appeared on the tibbr enterprise social network blog:

Why Businesses Should Stop the Annual Performance Review

Press Release: TUCON – Las Vegas, NV – September 26, 2012

Teamly – a tool for employees and business managers to raise performance in the workplace – today announced its full integration with tibbr®, a leading social enterprise platform offered by TIBCO, at TUCON 2012. Now when any tibbr customer wants to deploy Teamly there is a seamless integration into employees’ workflow, to manage both tasks and goals.

Integrating Teamly with tibbr opens it up to more than a million employees, working at leading enterprises in over 100 countries around the world.

“Companies use Teamly to drive performance, team alignment and workplace collaboration. Being closely integrated with tibbr amplifies this significantly”, said Scott Allison, co-founder and CEO of Teamly. Continuing Allison stated, “Using separate software tools for organizing work and reviewing employee performance is dead. One tool for both purposes is the way forward, and tibbr and Teamly’s collaboration exemplify this trend”.

The leading analyst in the HR space, Josh Bersin, wrote in a blog about the need for this hybrid approach, “The whole market for performance management software is shifting in a new direction to tools which helps teams align goals, communicate, collaborate, and evaluate their performance… it’s going to be huge. No one owns this yet.”

“Teamly coupled with tibbr provides managers a new, easy way for performance and goals to be measured that was never before possible,” said Sriram Chakravarthy, Vice President, Products and Engineering, Social Computing, TIBCO Software. “By creating a broad ecosystem of partners, we’re expanding the capabilities of tibbr to encompass the needs and demands of businesses across all verticals, empowering their employees to get work done.”

At TUCON (TIBCO User Conference) Teamly co-founders, Scott Allison and Edward Robertshaw will be presenting the Teamly integration to executives from leading enterprises around the world.

New user interface – With the new look Teamly you can now see your top priorities, tasks for later and also leftover items, all on the one page, with separate views for Day, Week, Month, Quarter. Priorities remain at the top, and stand out from the other items which are grouped together. Teamly is now even easier than ever to use for everyday organizing.  

Overview lets you look at everything on one page, which helps you plan. (Classic view remains for those who prefer it).

Visibility – It’s even easier to see what your colleagues are working on thanks to the new news feed, you can still access your team with the existing navigation but the feed shows you at a glance what’s going on, and provide direct links to comment on an item.

Suggest - You can now send task suggestions to your colleagues, even if they’re not already using Teamly! Simply click on suggest and enter their name or email address. We’ll send an email notification and you’ll be able to follow their progress by checking back on this page.

Mobile – When you sign in to your Teamly account from your mobile phone we’ll display an optimized view which is faster to load and removes a lot of non-essential stuff.

Tasks – When you think of something you need to get done, just send an email to tasks@teamly.com and enter the description of the item in the Subject line of the email.

Yammer integration – Share individual accomplishments with colleagues on your company’s Yammer network. Once you mark something as complete just hit the Yammer icon that appears.

Share your progress anytime – Create “report cards” showing what you got done, and share them with colleagues on Yammer or by email, or even externally on public social networks including Facebook and Twitter. Just click on the Create Report button above your Priority list.

What users are saying about Teamly:

“Simplicity is the key. Teamly is so simple and effective.”
Alireza Masrour, Investment Manager, Plug and Play Tech Center

“We use it to communicate, see what’s going on and encourage people to manage themselves better.”
Bill Kahrs, COO, Tout About Toys

If you’d like to find out more about Teamly please book a spot on one of our upcoming webinars, or visit our support forum where you can Report a Bug, Ask a Question or Suggest a Feature.

We’re also announcing we now have over 10,000 registered users who between them have created over 250,000 priorities, over 60% of which have been completed – a completion rate that’s 50% higher than traditional task focused products. People choose Teamly to help them Get The Right Work Done, stay focused and share their achievements with their colleagues. Our mission is about helping our users complete what they set out to do and feel awesome at work because of it.

Although now headquartered in Silicon Valley – just a few miles from Google’s Mountain View headquarters - Teamly started life in London, England. Our founding team is from Scotland, England and California, and our investors and advisors include natives of the Canada, Israel, Pakistan, and both the UK and US. That diversity is reflected in our user base who are from all over the World, from New Zealand to Newfoundland, India to Indiana, and Kenya to Kentucky.

Look out for lots of product enhancements over the coming months!

Finally, to celebrate the unveiling of the new batch at 500 Startups, here’s a video we all put together. It’s called The Funding Games (any similarity to The Hunger Games is entirely intentional!)

No doubt productivity and team management was top of mind with these artists when they wrote these songs; who needs another love song?! Boring.

First up – highlighting team collaboration – is Better Together by Jack Johnson:

Another one along the same lines is the classic, Come Together by The Beatles:

Meanwhile, What I’ve Done by Linkin Park highlights the way Teamly users can track their productivity:

Finally, Look What You’ve Done by Jet reminds us that you can also check on what your colleagues have been working on.

Any other suggestions? Let us know in the comments, or head on over to our Facebook page.