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A simple flowchart on Creately about Creately!

Last week I was asked to come up with some useful diagrams to demonstrate the power of Creately. As usual I was active during my power hours of 10p.m. to 3 a.m. generating ideas. I had random ideas running through my head, but didn’t quite understand th […]

Posted by charan • 1 day ago • 0 Comment(s)

As Twitter becomes more popular and pervasive, it has become an essential tool for start-ups to engage with their customers. Here at Creately, we actively engage our users, supporters and even the occasional detractor on Twitter.

Recently, we wanted to understand what our customers say to us on Twitter so @Indu went through our Twitter archives and put together this simple connections map of our @Creately Twitter account to capture some of our more active users and what they’re been talking to us about.

Who’s Talking to Creately & What are they Saying.

As @Indu worked on the diagram, she decided to pull together some recent Tweets about Creately to share with the team and you - our customers.

• b3nw: saved by a javascript app creately - http://creately.com after MS Visio just refused to link things, whew. Best $5 i’ve spent in along time.

• martinluff: RT @ideas2revenue: Just posted interview w/ CEO @chandika about their “pay what you want” experiment w/ Creately - http://www.ideas2revenue.com/interviews.html

• PipitPurch: Critical Success Factors for a Web #Startup - http://creately.com/blog/experience/success-factors-for-a-web-startup/ (nice diagram) via @azlax @davemcclure @creately

• myldrm: Creately Blog » 10 Best Social Media Tools for Startups: RT @creately 10 Best Social Media Tools for Startups - http://creately.com/blog/diagrams/10-best-social-media-tools-for-startups/

• Review of Creately for online UML diagrams… http://www.socialblogr.com/2010/01/creately-online-uml-creator.html via @socialblogr

• Creately looks awesome: http://creately.com/ RT @smashingmag: Five Useful Online Diagramming Tools -http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/01/18/five-best-online-diagramming-tools.html

• Creately – Free online competitor to Microsoft Visio - http://tech-informer.com/creately-free-online-competitor-to-microsoft-visio-338/

• hhamon: Very interesting collaborative tool in the browser, which allows to create UML diagrams :http://creately.com/

• jenwagner: @mcarls have you heard of http://creately.com/ — my HS students showed that and cacoo at their cool tool duel.

• UrbanHaiku: learning how to use creately.com to make a flowchart for my blog. I like it.

• pumpkinslayer: Just made this flow diagram online using Creately - neat tool http://create.ly/g4xijotl1

• Badruddeen: Creately - #Illustrations Made Easy - http://www.usefultools.com/2009/11/illustrations-made-easy/

• sabotages: @curiousmitch Online there’s creately - http://creately.com/ - pretty decent to be online

• JasonStoddard: Highly recommend @creately & checking out their mindmapping/diagram solution. Hosted. Elegant. Stupid-simple. #FF

• thomasvds: Found an interesting alternative to Visio and SmartDraw : http://creately.com

• megormi: I made some interesting graphic organizers today using creately.com thanks to the suggestion by@socratech

• amalkov: Trying out online diagramming tool: http://creately.com/ Nice.

• nocash: Been looking for something like this for a while: Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Creately -http://creately.com/

• Rohlund: I highly recommend checking out creately.com if Microsoft Visio is not your friend. #ittools

Thank you for all your tweets. We try to respond to each and everyone of them - so if you’ve enjoyed using Creately - tell us - we’re always listening on Twitter.

If you’re not following Creately on Twitter - now’s the time.

posted23/01/10

Scheduled Downtime & New Team Plans

downtime, Features, release

Welcome back to Creately - we’ve got a brand new release on the way  and we’re very excited to give you a lil glimpse into our plans.

Scheduled Downtime

Before we can release the new plans we’ll be doing some internal housekeeping this weekend. Our Creately.com service will be shut down for 3 hours on Saturday Night (PST)/Sunday Early Morning (EST). This will allow us to set up the internal infrastructure to introduce these great new updates over the coming week.

Downtime Schedule

Australia - Sun 24 Jan 2010 5:00 - 8:00 PM
United Kingdom - Sun 24 Jan 2010 6:00 - 9:00 AM
US (EST) - Sun 24 Jan 2010 1:00 - 4:00 AM
US (PST) - Sat 23 Jan 2010 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM

Upcoming Features

Over the coming week, we will be announcing a new Team Plan - that will make it simpler for you to collaborate with your team and clients.

Along with the Plus and Pro plans, the new Team Plans will come with advanced user and administrator management, unlimited project sharing and billing management capabilities.

Also All users will get better project and diagram management features - including the ability to move diagrams between Projects, better support for PDF exports on Linux and a new Profile page to manage your account.

We’ll have more here next week - so subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date with Creately’s Visual Collaboration platform.

@charanjit

Image by - Leo Reynolds / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0