EVE, Highrise HQ I'm playing around with those to understand contact management. In terms of what I need, though, don't Google and Excel offer a whole range of products that should basically do the trick?
The question is: What does a communications consultant have to track?
Conversations, emails, projects, deadlines, meetings, contacts.
An Excel spreadsheet with infinite amounts of entries can definitely handle notes on conversations, email/call dates and all contacts. Google documents also handle this data on the go, with real time updates (there are implications for device usage).
Google calendar can keep track of all meetings and timeline needs.
Do we really need more than that? Everyone always says they need to have it on their mobile device. I say hogwashery, or something like that. If you need access to large files, presentations and spreadsheets a laptop bag will follow you everywhere. Only a tiny group of people would ever pay the money for programs to actually edit that stuff on mobile interfaces. As an independent consultant is it necessary to build anything more. Does cost make us feel it's automatically better?
