By: Co-Editor RB:

Using the web to manage communications between companies and their employees has proven to be a very useful tool. Here is a new company that is providing useful services for companies with offices in Sydney and London.

Connect2Field.com is a cloud based job management and scheduling system, designed for the rough and tumble of real world business. Enjoy instant exchange of jobs between your office and field workers; track, schedule, and modify data on the fly, with seamless inventory management, billing, and invoicing.

The application is completely web based and delivered via a web browser, so you can access Connect2Field.com from anywhere at anytime. Connect 2 Field is built upon the idea that running a service business doesn’t have to involved large amounts of paper piled up on your desk, whiteboard for scheduling and phones ringing constantly. It’s all about working smarter not harder.

The company has been around since the early days of 2002 when the technology they use was very new. At the time they started developing Connect2Field.com but were also providing custom web solutions to customers in order to enable them to build Connect 2 Field and still remain a profitable company.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

There are several barter exchanges on the web such as OurSwaps.com where parties can exchange goods for goods by listing them on the exchange. SwapTree.com specializes in the trading of books, CDs, DVDs and video games and has been very successful. Many people use Craigslist for the purpose of trading goods and services (some services are more legal than others), but for the most part, barter sites trading in services are few and far between. The ones that do exist are so lightly trafficked as to make them unusable. Now comes Jobs4Trade.com, a Washington, DC company that aims to change all that.

Currently in beta, but set to launch in early September of 2009, Jobs4Trade.com is a social network for people to trade and barter services without necessarily involving money. The site also aims to focus on small business growth and development by providing a platform that allows for job posting, advertising throughout the site.

Jobs4Trade.com is not just for people with so-called trade skills. They encourage people to barter any serviceable task for which they are willing to trade including domestic services, typing, tutoring, babysitting, housecleaning, a ride to the airport etc.

Jobs4Trade’s goal is to use the resources available to people across the nation to streamline the antiquated business practice of bartering. The Internet has changed the world by providing an unlimited amount of information and by making it easier for people to communicate who otherwise would not have had the means to do so. Job4Trade.com wants to put these people together and let them engage in an economic exchange that can be more efficient exchange than simply cash for goods and services. They also hope that it is a great tool for a small start-up business to use. For example if they just purchased a new building that needs work.
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