“As we are all working freelance on the side, it is really important to have goals set to push yourself and each other forward. I’ve experienced that we actually get more things done since it is clear what exactly has to be ready and when.”

“We work with people across the U.S., even Hawaii, so we can now communicate in real time. It just makes it a lot more effective compared to how we were working before. Previously, we’d have to wait for them to get on IM or respond to an email. Now we …

"[The Projects app] automatically feeds back into another app we created that tracks the margins for all the products; it constantly calculates average hours, average material costs, average margin for each piece so we can be on the fly adjusting. It’s really amazing what you can do."

"We offer a discount if clients always use Podio first before they send emails or call us."

"It has provided a real-time channel that contextually is connected to the topic or project so there is zero confusion. Podio’s allowed us to actually tighten our communications, more so than ever."

"Last year, before we were using Podio, we put out three issues. Now that we can plan and track, and have accountability and transparency, we’re going to put out four issues this year and more stories are being told from the economic fringe."

"We rely solely on Podio for 95 percent of our project management activities."

"Since moving our work to Podio, my team is spending at least an hour less a day on project management."

“It has enabled us to almost combine all three of those different functions into one.”

"We register over 1000 man-hours and upload 150 expense vouchers every month using just the Podio app for iPhone."

"I created an app in Podio to collect qualitative data. We use a Podio webform to collect impact resulting from our journalism. Inside the Podio database, I use the various fields to filter information. For example, I can set a filter to see all impact associated with a single reporting …

“It’s extremely critical for us to be able to do that from our mobiles, Whenever someone signs a new customer or identifies a new potential customer … all of that is important to have on our mobiles – to be notified, to be able to add some information and basically …

“At a certain point the light goes on and [people] start to realize what they can do with it; you start to see them building their own apps and spaces and it really does drive creativity; you can see people start to think about how to make themselves more productive.”

“Podio instantly gave all users full transparency about our ongoing projects. We are now able to focus on strategic issues in our weekly meetings rather than daily business.”

"It is not suited for efficient communication within an office. It is easy to get disconnected with the daily bombardment of email."