Brightpod Erfahrungen

Brightpod

Vorteile:

I like how detailed Brightpod is. They give you many options to be as detailed as you want with projects.

Nachteile:

It does kind of look a bit busy in the design. With the many options provided, it's easy to get lost while navigating through the site.

Great Product! Great Service! Great Company!

Kommentare: I started using Brightpod a little over two years ago when I was looking for an easy-to-use app for marketing and social media projects for my companies and for my clients. At the time, Brightpod was still in beta, coming out of beta soon after I signed on.
Features I love:
Each client or project has its own "pod" where milestones, tasks, messages, and files can be kept organized. All activity is updated in real-time and the app can be accessed on any device that has web access. All tasks, events, and milestones for each pod automatically go into a calendar which syncs to a web-based calendar such as GCal or iCal.
There are marketing workflow templates available, and you can very easily revise those and make your own templates for similar task lists for different clients or pods.
You can add and subtract team members, contractors, and clients to work with you on a pod and give different people different permission levels. You also track your billable and non-billable time if you desire.
You can get real-time activity reports for each team member and for yourself and set up a weekly "focus" of your tasks. You can also generate very detailed "insights" for each team member, yourself, and other metrics.
The customer service is top notch. Not only are there several detailed Vimeo videos for each component of the app, you can also directly contact the Brightpod team with a question or problem and receive an answer back in less than 24 hours; usually in 3-4 hours.
The app has pretty colors. That is important for me as a creative professional.
The only "con" is more of a feature request: You can generate a dedicated email address for each pod so that you can email tasks, messages, files, etc. to each pod. However, if you have a lot of pods, that's a lot of email addresses to keep up with. One day, I'd like to see the ability to just name the pod within one email address sent to the account and the email is automatically sent to the right place!
I highly recommend this app for marketing teams, no matter what size.

Brightpod is a decent project management solution without app support

Vorteile:

I like that I can easily add projects and manage tasks across my team. As a leader, I can get a good idea what my team is working on and delegate tasks accordingly.

Nachteile:

The main thing I don't like the fact that this software has no accompanying app. It would be very useful, especially at night when I'm away from my computer, to be able to manage projects and tasks.

Happy Customer

Kommentare: I was looking for a task management tool for our small team that's intuitive and flexible enough for our work style. My teammates recommended a few other software options, which I considered and tested but didn't like much. I learned about Brightpod from another tool I used for years now called DeskAway by the same developer. It didn't take me much to figure it out once I signed up for the free account. What I love most about Brightpod is the ability to create "workflows," this basically allowed us to setup our processes through this tool (e.g., we setup eBook production with task lists and tasks and for each new eBook, we simply add a new Pod with the eBook workflow and teda, the tasks and task lists are loaded and we only need to assign to members and set dates .) It was easy enough for other team members to start using the tool without any learning curve.

Vorteile:

Workflows, list view vs. workflow view, predefined workflows for digital marketing work. Customer service is great: the built-in support interface is very easy and convenient to use and customer support respond in very timely fashion.

Nachteile:

Can get expensive with busy project schedule.

Brightpod. I'd be lost without you.

Kommentare: When I took over the marketing department at a growing business, I was essentially jumping onboard a moving freight train. With dozens of newspaper ad deadlines every month, right off the bat, I knew I needed a project management app that would let me keep track of recurring deadlines as well as keep my supervisor and me on the same page. After testing other apps, I can say without a doubt, Brightpod is the best. Both with the product and their (almost) live support. Here is how I use it. I set up a pod. Inside the pod (Print Advertising), I create a task list (Recurring Ads, Pending Review, etc...), then I create an individual task and set up the deadline and how often it will repeat (never, every month, or every week). From there I create the ad and add it as a comment in the task. My supervisor is notified, he approves the ad, I mark it complete, and if it is a recurring ad, a new one is automatically created with the proper deadline. I'd be lost without Brightpod.

In Technicolor, Brightpod is a verb now

Kommentare: We use Brightpod for project management in the marketing creative team. We are a worldwide company and my team supports marketing people on all continents.
Brightpod changed our lives: it is so easy to use for everyone, so very straightforward, there has been zero reluctance to use it - not always a given when you introduce new tools.
You have a full overview of everything that is going on and good tracking functionalities, great when you're dealing with different time zones and different clients.
The clients are constantly aware of the status and can be notified whenever there is the need.
The interaction with Outlook works great, by the way, so there is not always the need to log into the tool.
The Brightpod team are very responsive and very helpful as well. We've been using it for over a year now and it's still the best dollars ever spent.

Vorteile:

ease of use functionalities support

Nachteile:

don't really have anything negative to say

Great tool for project management

Kommentare: Our company loves brightpod! We use it for project management to balance projects throughout our marketing team of eight people. We love the ease of use of transfering projects to other team members and addding comments. The emojis are a fun new feature as well. Customer service has always been really helpful, but there are some limitations to the software. In the future, we would like to be able to change the project entry date (currently can't add it to past dates).

Vorteile:

Comment section, export to Excel feature, calendar, ability to personalize pods to our complex company

Nachteile:

Can't use in Citrix and want to be able to change date of entry

The Best Task Managment Software Money Can Buy!

Vorteile:

Super easy to use, clean interface, makes staying on top of recurring tasks easy as pie. The customer support is top-notch and I have even had the joy of watching my feature requests turn into features.

Nachteile:

I would love it even more if the recurring tasks could be set to "First Monday of the Month" in addition to the same date option.

BrightPod Rocks!

Kommentare: The pre-built workflows are a great starting point for the Small Digital Marketing Agency, Freelancer or Consultant. Even if they are customized, a Great Head Start in creating a solid framework and process for keeping projects moving smoothly. Plus the communication tools and tracking with your Outsource Partner is outstanding. Have tried a plethora of PM tools for Marketing Projects and NONE, ZERO other than BrightPod made sense. Five Stars!

Vorteile:

Pre-Built Workflows for Marketing Projects

Nachteile:

Getting Partners and Staff to be disciplined enough to use Productivity & Communication Tools!

Great task management

Kommentare: Good experience, great for keeping organized.

Vorteile:

Task assigning and card style layout made it easy to make customized workflows

Nachteile:

Pricey software and somewhat cluttered layout. Also a mobile app would be very helpful.

Good Management System

Kommentare: We use brightpod to help us manage our daily tasks and ensure that our employees are completing what is needed. Overall it does get the job done. The major suggestion I would make is the reoccurring tasks. Having a button to click rather then remember how to word the phrase to get it to reoccur. Just some food for thought

Vorteile:

Some what easy to use

Nachteile:

Reoccurring feature.

Simple and Organized

Kommentare: Brightpod makes it easy to keep track of all of my projects and deadlines. Plus, it makes collaboration a breeze.

Vorteile:

It's simple and intuitive.

Nachteile:

It creates too many email notifications, but that may be more of a reflection of the way our team uses it.

Love this product need more productive features

Kommentare: overall experience is good. UI is simple, clean and neat. most of the updates i receive seems to be not relevant for my business. from a manager perspective i seek for more productive features.

Vorteile:

compare to other similar product i like the UI, which is clean and neat

Nachteile:

'Me' page lack features

Love Brightpod, great for staying organized as a team.

Vorteile:

Brightpod is great for staying organized as a team. For writing projects it has been great and no one ends up writing the same piece of content because they are all so easily assigned.

Nachteile:

Everything is great, the only thing is I wish you could choose your own color for the initials you use to assign projects.

So Far So Good

Kommentare: Looking forward to exploring with our project manager how we can alter the program to better suit our needs. It'd be nice to have multiple layers of "completion" so once my part is complete, I don't get notified about being over due since we have multiple teams working on the same tasks. Overall, the functionality is there and easy to use! Wish there was a desktop and mobile app.

Vorteile:

The dragability of team members, ability to attach files and notify varying team members.

Nachteile:

Would love to see a desktop and mobile app as I hate having browser windows open. Would be nice to be able to create multiple teams within a task and have varying levels of completion for those team members.

A Project Management Tool for Compartmentalized Thinkers

Vorteile:

Brightpod is an online project management tool. As the name suggests, you organize your projects as "pods" in the app. As with most project management tools, you can set milestones, assign tasks, upload files, exchange messages and track project time for each "pod" or project. Of interest to consultants and freelancers, a great feature is the ability to track budgeted time, assign clients and attached team lead(s) to each pod.

Nachteile:

For me, Brightpod falls somewhere between the simple but souped up task management of Trello and the advanced project management features of software like Asana or Podio - which left it on the fence in my book. It's good but just didn't fit into the way I like to work online.

Easy way to track projects

Kommentare: My team implemented Brightpod only a few months ago and I am not sure how we survived with out it. It is an easy to understand interface which makes all of our lives easier. You have access to customer service chat but I do wish there was a phone number to actually speak to someone sometimes, at least when first implementing the product. They have very helpful forums and walk you through every step. It is a nice way to track how multiple team members of my department are up do with out micromanaging.

Vorteile:

Easy to use, simple interface, enjoy features

Nachteile:

Just would like a customer service phone number

Excellent Project Management Tool

Kommentare: This project management tool has been very useful for myself and my coworkers, who are constantly multitasking on projects. It is easy for us to get off track, but after using Brightpod for only a month we can already tell a difference in our work! Highly recommended to anyone looking for a shared project management tool.

Vorteile:

I like how easy it is to use this software.

Nachteile:

I might like another way to group the Pods. We have so many different pods that they get lost at times.

My Review For BrightPod

Kommentare: I've started using Bright Pod since early September and it's been pretty cool. I like how the graphics and structure make it easy to identify things that have to be done this week and next week. But there could be improvement on the areas like easiness to edit the task description, etc.

Vorteile:

The graphics and layout

Nachteile:

The difficulty in editing some task descriptions and the confusing windows that pop out

Good, basic marketing projected management tool

Kommentare: Brightpod serves our basic needs of having a platform that can keep all of our current marketing projects sorted out. There are some features such as a more flexible dashboard that can offer summaries of projects by owner or business unit, but for the most part, this serves our basic needs.

Vorteile:

Easy to use.

Nachteile:

Doesn't allow for any customization

Brightpod Review

Kommentare: The tabs seem logical but we don't yet use them all. It's a bit annoying that you need to scroll down to get to the most recent comment/PDF. I don't think you can add a budget either time or money so you can't assess time against budgeted time which would be really useful. I've had a couple of glitches where comments haven't been uploaded and sent which have subsequently been resolved but in a busy environment you have to assume the message has gone. Overall good and quite intuitive. Probably we need to explore functionality more and use more comprehensively.

Nice for organization

Kommentare: Haven't been using Brightpod for long, but has been good for organization and keeping track of tasks. The option for billable hours would be great for freelancing.

Vorteile:

Lots of features and options for organization

Nachteile:

Can be a bit confusing

Easy to use project manegemnet app with great features

Kommentare: Very easy to set-up and to use. Great adoptions from all users in the team.
Intuitive way to it structure projects with milestones, task lists and tasks.
Have used it for 20+ users teams and it scales well.
It has significantly reduced the volume of useless emails flying around.

Vorteile:

Task Lists, Calendars, Work Reports and Messaging are great features great support service very active support forum

Nachteile:

Takes a bit of time to get used to the UI

Great for collaboration

Kommentare: Bright pod has made it easier for our company to collaborate on products and stay up to date on each other's progress. It was slightly difficult to get used to at first but other than that it has been great.

Vorteile:

I like that you can indicate your progress on a task rather than just saying done or not done.

Nachteile:

Things that you are assigned to "assist" on do not show up on your personal calendar.

Brightpod: does the job

Kommentare: We only use Brightpod for the Calendar, and it's extremely useful as a quick 'n dirty guide to what we're publishing. It does this job very well, but there's a couple of things that would make life easier. 1) I wish there was a way of re-opening completed tasks from the Calendar view. 2) I wish the experience on mobile was better (or that there was a mobile app).