5 Ways To Build Lasting Partner and Vendor Relationships
Every successful business has a strong team of partners and vendors on its side. These outside sources can help with anything from supplying materials to logistics services to finances, and much more. While your individual organization might be outstanding, without effective external cooperation and support, its almost impossible to thrive. So, naturally, it makes senses […]
How To Assemble Fantastic Work Teams
Ineffective teams are the bane of our existence from almost the very beginning. Ask any student the worst part school and group projects are sure to top the list. And teamwork doesn’t go away once you graduate, whether you work in a traditional office or an on-the-go environment, teamwork is sure to surface at least […]
Tool Sprawl: A Toxin to Productivity
This post is only a summary of our research and findings, for more information take a look at our complete and comprehensive Tool Sprawl Analysis Technology is designed to make work faster, easier, and more effective. From the industrial revolution to the internet, technology over the centuries has transformed work in almost unimaginable ways. And […]
Successfully Serving Big Clients With Small Teams
Over the last decade, start-ups and small businesses have shown that you don’t need an enterprise sized staff to pack a serious punch. When small teams work well together they can not only keep up with larger competitors but even ofter unique advantages unavailable anywhere else. Small teams don’t need to be limited or intimidated […]
Learning More About Mango Exchange
At MangoApps, we believe that when businesses have the personalized tools they need productivity, engagement, work ethic, and even company culture increase. To help your organization find its perfect fit, we wanted to take a moment and introduce one of our newest slices, Mango Exchange. Mango Exchange is a modern internal communication system designed to […]
Creating Effective Office Communication
While companies usually focus on improving customer, client, or other external communication, internal office communication is just as important. Poor internal communication creates a confusing work environment, where employee struggle to stay engaged, accomplish tasks, and improve productivity. And without a successful internal organization, it doesn’t matter what customers hear! Products and services will suffer […]
Make the Most out of Information With MangoApps Forms
Instant online accessibility means so much more than just getting quick directions or asking virtual assistants unusual questions. For businesses, unlimited online access means gathering feedback and sharing resources right away. With the right tools, any organization can effortlessly assemble information from almost anywhere in the world. In MangoApps, we’ve built forms and trackers for […]
Use MangoApps Recognitions To Produce Better Business Outcomes
The modern workplace is adapting and expanding. Remote teams, increased field work, and flexible schedules, and advancing work practices, all mean managers can’t always rely on the tried and true methods of the past. Managers need to think creatively, exercise innovation, develop new ideas in everything they do. While this applies of course to business […]
MangoApps Named An April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Content Collaboration Platforms
The MangoApps team is excited to announce that we have been recognized as an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Content Collaboration. Our team at MangoApps takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our products and services. In its announcement, Gartner explains, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ […]
How Customers Use MangoApps Employee Profiles
At MangoApps, we’re proud of our products and how they help every user create an individualized experience. We know that customized communication is the key to business success, but we also know that working in a completely customizable environment can sometimes be a daunting experience. To help our new users get started, we’ve asked some of our current […]
5 Ways To Transform Employee Smartphones Into A Business Advantage
Smartphones have transformed the modern world. Today, over 62% of global internet users browse the internet from their phones and even more utilize smartphones for everything from calendars and alarms to streaming and shopping. With so much information so easily available, it’s not surprising that most people seem to always have their phone within arms […]
How MangoApps Simplifies the Getting Started Experience
Over the years company intranets have become an indispensable part of any digital workplace. When deployed successfully, intranets can improve communication, enhance collaboration, and encourage productivity throughout the workplace. But transitioning to a new work platform can feel a little intimidating. MangoApps’ simple, step-by-step, getting started process always keeps new users in mind and makes […]
Improve Company Connectivity With MangoApps Groups
Company intranets have changed and evolved over the years. From its origins as a simple document management platform to the extensive business collaboration system it is today, intranet continues to adapt and grow to meet the needs of modern businesses. Intranets benefit organizations by increasing productivity, efficiency, and employee engagement, and will always be important for […]
5 Ways To Create The Best Onboarding Experience
In order for any business to grow, new reliable and successful employees have to be added. But shockingly, recent studies have shown that nearly one-third of new hires quit their job within the first 6 months! Retaining long term and effective employees is essential for every business, but how do you help employees feel welcomed, engaged, and […]
How Customers Use The MangoApps Groups Module
At Mangoapps, we understand that incorporating new communication and collaboration software is a unique experience for every business. For some of our clients, it can be difficult at first to visualize how to best incorporate our tools into their organization. We want to help every customer have an incredible and successful transition, so we’ve collected a few […]
5 Ways To Unleash The Power Of Small Independent Teams
Whether you’re a long-established global enterprise or a newly emerging start-up, small teams are the secret to long term success. Empowering small, dedicated, and independent teams, helps workers handle tasks autonomously and encourages the best an employee has to offer. While small companies have long known the benefits of size-controlled teams, even larger organization are starting […]
4 Powerful Ways to Use Office Locations
For growing businesses, a single office location is often not enough. As organizations increase in business and capital, they typically expand and set up multiple offices across different geographical locations. While these new offices can be great for increasing business, they can also bring additional communication challenges. In the past, communication for multiple offices would […]
Introducing MangoApps TinyTake for Teams
MangoApps is excited to announce the launch of our newest product TinyTake for Teams! TinyTake for Teams centers around seamlessly incorporating visual communication into the workplace, helping employees communicate faster and more effectively. It includes, of course, our most up-to-date version of TinyTake, as well as a few more highly engaging and visually based modules […]
Building A Company Culture Of Continuous Learning
Building a company culture of continuous learning is paramount for industry growth and long term success. Learning new skills and ideas lights up the brain and helps employees engage with their work, feel connected to their company and increase their dedication and investment in their field. Continual learning inspires continual thinking, adapting and innovation. By […]
Boost Your Team’s Happiness With Transparency
As businesses and organizations we commit to providing our customers with clear communication, straightforward services and an honest commitment to their care. So when it comes to our employees, shouldn’t we do the same? Engaging and informing employees about business decisions, potential changes, and upcoming events, creates greater trust, commitment and dedication. Even when the […]
Everything You Need To Know About MangoApps 13.0
At MangoApps, we know that innovation is the answer to long-lasting success. We’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best experience possible, whatever that might be. For MangoApps, that means constantly researching and reevaluating how we work and how to effectively meet our customer’s needs. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our […]
5 Reasons Your Company Needs Employee Engagement Surveys
Employees today understand the freedom that remote work abilities and new workforce skills provide, and while these opportunities can be an incredible aid to industries who use them well, it also means that employees are no longer willing to tolerate businesses that neglect to value, understand or appreciate their contributions. A successful business must maintain an […]
How Customers Use MangoApps Dashboards
At MangoApps, we believe in providing users with personalized communication tools. We offer our customers exactly what they need, without requiring extra or unnecessary features. Sometimes this can come as a real surprise to companies, and personalizing your individual experience can actually be a bit of a transition. To help our customers bridge the gap […]
Uncover Inspirations With the MangoApps Ideas Module
Some of the best industry insights and ideas come from internal employees. Employees interact with company products and service in a wide variety of ways and often develop insightful perspectives. Finding and utilizing these inspirations though can be a little tricky. Typically, companies rely on a suggestion box system to gather ideas from their workforce, […]
10 Survey Questions to Measure and Improve Employee Engagement
Everyone understands that employee engagement is important, but knowing exactly where your business stands is much more difficult. The bottom line is that if you aren’t able to keep your workforce engaged, their work quality will suffer, or even worse, they will leave you for another organization. Even monetary solutions are only a temporary fix. […]
Increasing Pay Won’t Always Win Over Your Employees
The priorities of employees are changing. While bosses in the past could rely on pacifying or even motivating employees with a bonus or a salary increase, the modern workforce has other ideas. Employees today, particularly in the millennial and upcoming generation, consider a wide range of engagement factors more important than income alone when accepting […]
Decrease Distractions With MangoApps File Management
Nothing quite compares to working “in the zone.” You know the feeling, when difficulties feel like an exciting challenge, the task ahead holds your undivided attention, you have a true zeal for the work at hand, and productivity is at its peak. Unfortunately, “in the zone” moments are becoming less and less frequent during the […]
Increasing Employee Engagement With Technology
It’s well known throughout the working world that employee engagement and business profitability go hand in hand. But just understanding the importance of engagement isn’t enough. Despite increased awareness about this concern, the majority of employers still struggle to find solutions and an astounding 86% of the global workforce still considers itself primarily unengaged. Among the companies […]
6 Ways MangoApps Forms Can Significantly Simplify Company Paperwork
In an office setting the word paperwork often conjures up images of long hours, tedious tasks, and unproductive assignments. Even important and necessary paperwork can feel mundane, draining, and inspire all kinds of procrastination. MangoApps Online Forms aim to change all of that. We know that within a business some forms are unavoidable, but that doesn’t […]
The Benefits of Running Anonymous Employee Surveys
As a manager or business leader, it can be difficult to honestly understand engagement levels. Concerns about putting their best face forward can make employees appear to be happy and enthusiastic, even if their genuine opinions are a bit farther from the truth. And to make matters worse, if frustrated or discouraged employees feel like […]
How the MangoApps Departments Boosts Connectivity and Engagement
The success or failure of any organization today depends heavily on its digital abilities to adapt, connect, communicate and collaborate. Knowing that these factors are essential, companies often invest in email, social media, video conferencing and all kinds of other independent digital tools, without implementing a centralized digital workplace strategy. While each of these programs […]
How Customers Use The MangoApps Company Departments Module
At Mangoapps, we’re proud of how our products and software help customers communicate, collaborate and work effectively every day. But we also know that for prospective clients and anyone in the early learning stages, understanding the benefits of MangoApps for your business can be a little difficult. So we wanted to provide a few examples from […]
Why Investing In Engagement Is Always A Good Idea
Engaging and investing in your employees is now more important than ever. A recent Gallup research study showed that engaged employees outperform their less interested coworkers by a staggering 202%. Whatever your company’s size or industry, massive productivity gains can be achieved by honest employee engagement. The more employees are connected and enthusiastic about their work […]
How To Run A Successful Business With Remote Employees
The beginning of a new year is a time for goal setting and reflection, for both individuals and businesses. If your organization is still considering how to improve in 2019 than we’d like to offer an important suggestion. Incorporate or expand remote opportunities. While the idea of creating a remote work strategy might sound scary, it’s […]
Top 50 MangoApps Features From 2018 (Part Two)
2018 was an amazing year for us at MangoApps. We continued to overcome every obstacle, as we listened to our customer’s needs, adapted to their unique requirements, and continued to provide them with the best possible communication and collaboration tools around. In our last post, we reviewed the first half of the Top 50 MangoApps features […]
Top 50 MangoApps Features From 2018 (Part One)
Hello and welcome to 2019! At MangoApps, we’ve spent the past few weeks reflecting on everything we were able to accomplish last year. Our team worked really hard in 2018 to innovate, adapt, and make MangoApps the best collaboration and communication program available. We made great strides last year and loved all of the feedback […]
Connect Your Workforce with MangoApps Employee Directory and Profiles
Most modern-day organizations have a highly trained and diverse workforce with a range of talents across the board. With such a wide array of skills and abilities, it can be almost impossible for an employee to know all of his colleagues, let alone all of their expertise and experience. Finding the right coworker to help […]
Everything You Need To Know About Building An Engaging Workplace
It’s a transformative time for businesses and organizations. Competition in the last decade has grown rapidly in almost every industry, dramatically increasing a company’s need to provide new, interesting and innovative products and services. So how are successful organization supposed to keep up with increasing competition and cultivate a thriving industry? By bringing out the […]
How MangoApps Is Connecting TeamHealth Together
About TeamHealth TeamHealth is a clinician services organization based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. The company provides highly-qualified and exceptionally-skilled physicians, advanced practice clinicians and other healthcare professionals to hospitals and other health-related organizations throughout the United States. Well known in the healthcare industry for their exceptional clinical and non-clinical associates across the country, TeamHealth works […]
Project Management Tips for Better Team Collaboration
This Guest Post Was Provided By Our Friends At SoftwareSuggest A successful project completion requires skilled professionals, punctuality, a well-defined budget, and technology integration. If any one of these factors is out of proportion, the project is doomed for failure. This is the reason why around 70 percent of projects fail. But with improvisation in project […]
8 MangoApps Features To Enhance Your Office Holiday Spirit
The holiday season is finally here! Which means festive evenings, office parties, and preparations for another outstanding year. At MangoApps, we understand how important holidays are and how celebrations bring everyone in the office closer together. So we wanted to offer a few ideas about how we can help. MangoApps features can help organizations strengthen […]
MangoApps Announces Launch of Community Software Platform For Mid-Market Organizations
SEATTLE, WA Dec 13th, 2018 – MangoApps, the leading provider of cloud-based employee software solutions, announced the launch of Mango Community earlier this week. Every day, non-profit organizations and communities across all industries fail to succeed because they lack a vibrant space for members to engage, communicate, and collaborate. With Mango Community, these groups now have access […]
How Customers Use The MangoApps Company Sites Module
MangoApps is dedicated to providing our clients with high-quality, personalized and customized communication. We love to help our customers and prospective clients discover how all of our different features can benefit their specific needs. Today we wanted to continue that effort by adding a little context to one of our most popular features, the MangoApps […]
5 Signs Your Company Needs A Digital Upgrade
With the rapid rise of new technology in the workforce, businesses across industries are struggling to properly accommodate their employee’s growing needs. Employees today expect flexibility, freedom, and access to effective technology. Businesses that ignore these needs or fail to adapt are doomed to have a difficult time recruiting and retaining high-quality employees. But how […]
7 Warning Signs Of Decreasing Employee Engagement
As a manager, few things are more discouraging than receiving a resignation from out of the blue. Realizing that a good employee is unhappy at work can come as a shock to managers, particularly when it seemed like everything was going well. Decreasing employee engagement, especially in previously motivated employees, is a serious problem for […]
5 Ways To Build A Culture Of Employee Recognition
Today’s workforce approaches satisfaction very differently than employees in the past. No longer will a fat paycheck guarantee an organization the best talent they need. Numerous workplace surveys and research conducted on modern-day workforce trends have shown that in order to attract top talent, companies now need to build a culture of employee recognition. So […]
5 Reasons MangoApps Is The Perfect SharePoint Alternative
At MangoApps, we see companies every day who are discouraged, annoyed and disheartened by their SharePoint experiences. Sometimes businesses become so frustrated that they aren’t even sure if collaboration tools are worth the investment. Fortunately, however, most companies understand that SharePoint is a lot like a Swiss Army Knife. While it’s array of tools may make […]
MangoApps Announces Extended Partnership With Beck et al For European Customers
SEATTLE, WA November 26, 2018 – MangoApps and Beck et al. announced today an expanded partnership, designed to deliver modern intranet and employee collaboration solutions to enterprise customers in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. This expanded partnership consists of a dual endorsement, helping companies throughout these countries expand their access to both collaborative software and IT […]
9 Ways To Hold More Productive Office Meetings
Surveys show that the average organization requires up to 31 hours of unproductive meetings every month. Thinking about that in terms of lost revenue is more than a little frightening. So how can companies reduce these numbers? The solution is to make better use of available tools and to help employees create smarter and more […]
The Right Way to Measure Employee Engagement
In order to make a positive change, you first have to know where you stand. For successful companies, that means honestly evaluating and understanding how employees feel about the organization. In a previous post we looked at how employee engagement can influence company culture, but today we want to focus on how to know how […]
How Customers Use The MangoApps Projects Module
At MangoApps, we believe in clear, helpful, and informative communication that makes understanding our products easy. We want prospective clients to perfectly visualize how MangoApps can work with them. So, we’ve put together a few examples of our popular projects module. To protect our client’s confidentiality, all business names have been withheld, but every illustration comes from […]
5 Employee Engagement Ideas For a Stronger Company Culture
Employee engagement is an essential pillar in building a happy company culture, but companies are falling incredibly short. A recent study reported that only 15% of employees consider themselves fully engaged at work and 85% of employees do not have an emotional connection or commitment to their company. Engaging more of your employees and, as […]
8 Strategies Proven To Boost Employee Productivity
The old business adage that the “Customer is King” is starting to be overturned. Employers and organizations across the globe are finally beginning to realize that while customers will always be important, employees also deserve attention and respect. Helping employees understand their value is a company’s most successful tool for achieving happier employees, more satisfied […]
How Customers Use The MangoApps Posts Module
At MangoApps, we love to work personally with our customers and help them discover how all of our different features can benefit their specific needs. But we also know that for prospective clients and anyone in the early learning stages, visualizing how MangoApps will help your business can be a bit difficult. So we wanted to […]
How To Refresh Employee Rewards and Recognition
Successful companies understand that employees are the core of their business. Highly engaged and satisfied employees work with an excited and positive energy that often helps transform business and boost profits. A workforce that feels a personal rapport with management is also more likely to become productive and engaged. Positive employee engagement happens when employers […]
How To Successfully Incorporate Remote Employees
Offering employees remote and work-from-home opportunities is now a business necessity. For many potential new hires, the ability to work remotely is actually a more influential factor than the starting salary. Today’s employees feel that remote work provides a better environment and a recent study conducted by Flexjobs found that over 76% of employees preferred […]
10 Reasons Companies Need To Use MangoApps Online Wikis
For most people, the first thing the word wiki brings to mind is the famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia has completely changed the way information is consumed by people with highly varying backgrounds, views, interests, locations, and native languages. Searching for almost any term today almost always results in a related Wikipedia link right at […]
5 Ways For Companies To Reduce Email Overload
With close to 150,000 emails being sent globally every minute, it’s no surprise that the average office worker spends close to 13 hours a week processing emails. And unfortunately, many of those emails are redundant, unimportant or irrelevant to the receiver, resulting in hours of unproductive time. So how can companies help prevent inbox bloat? […]
5 Ways Incorporating Collaboration Software Will Get Email Under Control
Managing email today is like playing a bad game of red light green light. Every time you turn your back it gets a little bit closer until finally, it overtakes you. So what are companies supposed to do? How can employees communicate effectively without creating an overwhelming inbox? The honest answer is, don’t use email at all. […]
MangoApps Announces Launch of Internal Mail And Calendaring Platform
SEATTLE, WA Oct 15th, 2018 – MangoApps, the leading provider of cloud-based employee software solutions, announced the launch of Mango Exchange this week. Organizations across all industries either sink unnecessary money and effort into providing employees with unneeded inboxes, or just avoid the operational headaches and costs altogether, leaving segments of their workforce in the dark and […]
HR Excellence Award for Most Effective Internal Communication
MangoApps is thrilled that client, Superdrug, has won the 2017 HR Excellence Award for Most Effective Use of Internal Communications. The HR Excellence Awards are recognized across the UK as the benchmark of HR excellence and annually attract the UK’s most talented HR companies, teams, and individuals. To be considered for such an award is […]
How To Encourage Lasting Employee Intranet Usage
In physics, potential energy refers to an object’s stored energy and its ability (or potential) to give off that energy in an environment. It could be a ball at the top of a hill, a coiled spring or anything that with just a little push can make a lot happen. And while the possibilities of a […]
The Only Way To Permanently Achieve Inbox Zero
As the struggle to keep on top of company emails seems to grow every day, employees are trying whatever it takes to get their inbox back to normal. Inbox zero, as the idea has come to be known, is the attempt to reach an empty or close to an empty inbox, in an effort to be […]
Why Employees Don’t Need Email Addresses
For large enterprises in today’s business world, internal communication might as well be synonymous with migraine. As companies expand, branches tend to become less and less connected as leaders struggle to communicate with thousands of employees spread out over different geographic locations. So what is the obvious solution? Give everyone an email address, right? While […]
The Roles of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
The fear of artificial intelligence replacing or infringing on humankind has persisted ever since the birth of science fiction. But today, AI is no longer a work of fiction and is an active and important part of our working world. According to recent Gartner research, AI is predicted to currently power more than 85% of the […]
7 Ways Artificial Intelligence Helps Human Resources
While prominent people from around the world have different views on the theory of the human evolution, positive work culture evolution is a much easier question to answer. We only have to ask ourselves, “How can we apply our acquired knowledge to create a better work environment?” This question has structured the growth of businesses […]
7 Strategies to Choose the Best Intranet Vendor For Your Business
Forming and maintaining successful business relationships takes time, understanding and introspection. And while we’re sure any intranet provider you ask would love to tell you all about their services, choosing a lasting and reliable vendor should be about more than just modules and features. At MangoApps, we believe in fostering open communication and productive relationships […]
MangoApps Announces The Launch Of Office Locations
SEATTLE, WA Sep 18th, 2018 – MangoApps announces Office Locations, a new key feature in its latest update aimed at enterprises with multiple offices. Today, multiple office enterprises and geographically separated employees struggle to manage and maintain the details of each location and rarely create a unified workforce. The Office Locations feature allows enterprises to […]
The Top Six MangoApps Employee Dashboard Benefits
The MangoApps employee dashboard provides a central location for employees to access, interact with and analyze up-to-date company and team information. Making sure that your employees always have relevant and useful information on hand helps them to complete their tasks on time and make smarter data-driven decisions. Our dashboard also gives admins the ability to monitor […]
MangoApps Announces Launch of Modern Enterprise HR Platform
SEATTLE, WA Sep 11th, 2018 – MangoApps, the leading provider of cloud-based employee software solutions, announced the launch of Mango HR at the HR Technology Conference & Expo this week in Las Vegas, NV. Human resource organizations across the globe struggle every day to deliver meaningful and impactful solutions to keep their employees informed and […]
MangoApps Employee Dashboards: Built For Better Productivity
As any athlete knows, proper technique makes life a lot easier. In both sports and business working hard will never be enough if you aren’t also working smarter, staying innovative, using good form and utilizing the right tools for success. One of today’s essential business techniques is to provide your workforce with accesses to everything […]