Author: ManojRanaweera

Since I was introduced to WorkFlowy by my fellow tech entrepreneur, Joel Gascoigne of OnePage, I have been using it daily as my personal task management tool. WorkFlowy is a simple outline tool that can be used in multiple ways, e.g. build your business plan. I have tried many task management tools since venturing into the exciting world of tech entrepreneurship in 2004, but never found anything that is as simple as workflowy. For many years, I used MindManager from MindJet, a licensed software application for mind mapping to plan my daily, weekly, monthly and annual schedules. For daily and…

Today, I became a Trustee of The Bridgewater Hall Community Education Trust (BHCET). The BHCET maximises the education potential of the Bridgewater Hall which is a world class concert hall in the centre of Manchester. The BHCET runs a wide range of projects, programmes and activities taking the building and its rich artistic life as a stimulus. The Board of Trustees consists of many well known faces of Manchester and the North West, and how I would add value is yet to be worked out. I am hoping this may be in couple of areas: 1. Brand 2. Technology 3. Culture…

What are the 10 most used social web applications by you and what are the primary reasons for their usage?? In my case, in order of frequency, i.e. first being the most used and 10th being the least used out of the 10: www.edocr.com – no surprise here! www.twitter.com – instant broadcasting, traffic generator and on-line collaboration (plus tweetdeck + tweetie + cotweet) www.facebook.com – access to 500 million user base with difficulty www.Linkedin.com – verify email addresses of new contacts and learn about individuals www.youtube.com – videos of our events www.stumbleupon.com – traffic generation www.digg.com – traffic generation del.icio.us…

Hi Om, I wrote a blog post several months ago about how to find a person’s email address, verify it and then use other services to enrich it. I never published it due to not being totally comfortable with what I have written. The process involves (where the email address is not known): 1. Guessing the email address (there are number of ways) 2. Verifying this using the largest professional network (and if needed the largest social network) 3. Once verified, add to web applications that could enrich the email address by finding out social profiles of the individual and…

Softworld is UK’s premier event for accounting software vendors. I was a regular attendee during the days of ebdex (my first tech startup), but have not attended the event during the last few years. Those days, the event was held in Birmingham and was seen as the annual showcase event for accountancy software. It was  at least 3 times bigger than the event I attended yesterday, and was buzzing with people. In contrast, yesterday’s event was not just small but it seems that the organisers forgot to invite buyers. Access Accounting had the largest exhibiting area, and probably worked harder…