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Smartsheet and jdrlegal to Create Workflows for Law Firms

Smartsheet today announced a partnership with multi-jurisdictional law practice, jdrlegal for the purpose of creating unique workflows for the legal industry.

Smartsheet Announces Secure File Transfer Capability

BELLEVUE, Wash. - April 2, 2009 - Smartsheet.com, a provider of SaaS-based work management tools, has launched support for sending files via web links, further simplifying how people share digital files.

Basex brief: "Smartsourcing with Mechanical Turk"

Smartsheet Smartsourcing is a new offering that provides on-demand access to virtual workers who can be employed on a task-by-task basis.

ReadWriteWeb: "Project Management + Mechanical Turk? Smartsheet Looks Awesome"

Why didn't we think of this? Project management startup Smartsheet released a new core feature this week - integration of Amazon's outsourcing service Mechanical Turk. The Smartsheet interface will now let you set up Turk research jobs that thousands of anonymous workers around the world will split up and perform quickly for a very low price.

Smartsheet.com Adds $1.25 Million Series B Financing

Madrona Venture Group and Chairman Brent Frei Increase Stakes

Smartsheet Announces iPhone and BlackBerry Support

Latest release enables iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile devices to access Smartsheet.

Smartsheet Ships Online Business Bundler for Small Business

Smartsheet.com, a collaborative work management company, today introduced the Smartsheet Small Business Bundler. The offering makes it possible for small businesses to create an online variation of their services using Smartsheet, requiring no technical expertise and no setup costs.
 

Smartsheet Accelerates with CloudFront - the latest Amazon Web Service

Smartsheet further improves the delivery of its application using CloudFront, the latest Amazon Web Service to be publicly released.  Jeff Barr, Evangelist for Web Services at Amazon.com, describes in his Amazon Web Services Blog what CloudFront is and how Smartsheet has already started taking advantage of the service to improve the user experience for its global customer base.
 
 

The Google of Work Management

Collaborative work management—it’s not the sexiest topic, but it’s a big business. Seattle-area entrepreneur Brent Frei estimates that his newest startup, Smartsheet, is the “301st company in the space.” The basic idea is to make software that companies can use to manage team-based projects and keep track of things like workflow, file storage, discussion threads, alerts, and to-do lists. Most companies still use Excel spreadsheets, e-mail folders, and other similar programs to do task-tracking, which can be tedious and inflexible.
 

Smartsheet Launches New Version With Enhanced Features

..."With their official launch of V2 today, I wanted to give it another look to see how things have changed since I last looked. I also had an opportunity to chat about Smartsheet with founder and chairman Brent Frei who shared with me some of the design philosophy behind the service and productivity in general. According to Frei, Smartsheet is built upon 5 Foundational characteristics that define and guide the user experience, and where in the process most applications fail.