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WhosOff on the road

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:55:00 +0000

WhosOff Lorry Hits the Road!
A new advertising campaign from WhosOff has hit the road on the 18th December 2009.
On it's maiden run the 40ft refrigerated lorry is on it's way to Belgium for christmas supplies to retailers.
Keep an eye out for the lorry around Europe over the next 12 months, if you spot it, take a photo and send it to us at info@whosoff.com

WhosOff adds calendar feeds

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:54:00 +0000

You can now create a calendar feed from your WhosOff account and subscribe to that feed from other calendar programs such as MS Outlook and Google Calendar.

This is a great way to see whats going on in Whosoff without you having to log in each time.

You can create calendar feeds for individuals, departments or the whole company.

WhosOff - Ranked 6th - Top Dates and Calendar web applications

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:08:00 +0000

With 9,258 votes so far WhosOff has grown to the #6 spot on CEO World Magazine poll for the Top Dates and Calendar Web Applications list. Cast your votes today at http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/12/22/top-dates-calendar-web-applications-list/

The websites were evaluated by majority of votes based on ten main criteria:- Content- Authority- Navigation- Design- Accessibility- Innovation- Business sense and growth expectations- Degree of competition mix in their market- Team- Traffic type: blog, wiki, Services using tags, Mash up based on Google / Yahoo / Live.com maps, Feeds and social networking sites etc.

Premium Edition launched

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:40:00 +0000

The Premium Edition has now been launched and take up is exceeding our expectations!

Enhanced features include: control over leave types, CSV/spreadsheet downloads, basic overtime reporting, leave reporting between date ranges, yearly carryover, ability to set working week at staff level (to cover part time workers), insert individual leave into your MS Outlook™

An easy branding option enables users to keep their corporate identity, including logos and colours throughout the Premium Edition

View the features here

WhosOff Service tops ¼ Million Holiday Requests

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:04:00 +0000

WhosOff.com, the Free online staff holiday/vacation planner, recently 'processed' its 250,000th leave request.

Since its launch, less than 2 years ago, thousands of businesses and organisations have taken the opportunity to use WhosOff.com to manage their staff holiday/vacation and out of office times.

Based in the quiet city of Canterbury, England - a world away from Silicon Valley - WhosOff.com is attracting users from over 75 countries around the world – an impressive start for an online service aimed at business users.

WhosOff.com allows staff to request holiday/vacation whilst applying simple initial controls, for example, checking the number of days a staff member has remaining or staff clashes, and can pass the logged request on by email for final approval by an appointed approver.

Many companies have difficulty tracking staff holiday and WhosOff.com delivers an answer to this enduring problem for free.

In development from Whosoff.com is a paid-for ‘Premium’ service which is due to be launched in November 2008 . The premium version will provide users with added features and tools including integration with some desktop applications.

WhosOff Facelift underway

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:29:00 +0000

An new enhanced look and feel are being worked on at the WhosOff offices that will incorporate the new versions available to users of WhosOff. The new site will be ready and launched early February and will provide users with an insight to new features and services coming soon as well as providing a central discussion area for users to share their knowledge of WhosOff.

WhosOff in Development!

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:15:00 +0000

WhosOff has entered a new major development chapter. From early January 2008 developers of WhosOff will be embarking on a new major release that will incorporate SOAP API technology as its base and will also see WhosOff located on a new hosting platform. The hosting of WhosOff will see loads balanced across its newly commissioned servers and will provide a faster and more robust service to WhosOff premium users.

In future months we will be investigating the demand and possibilities of releasing the API for developers to integrate their own tools into the staff holiday management.

If you would like to be notified when WhosOff Premium becomes available, post a reply on this topic.

Red Hot Site of the Day !

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:00:00 +0000

Over the weekend WhosOff was the 'Red Hot Site of the Day' on Redorbit.com -

RedOrbit.com, based in Texas,USA has become the premier internet destination for space, science, health, and technology enthusiasts around the globe.

New Reviews

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:42:00 +0000

A couple of reviews have been posted recently which I think really capture the essence of the Whosoff service.

Steve Anderson's 'Keep track of who's off'
and
John Reardon's 'Tracking Time off the easy way'

Thanks to both of them for taking the time to mention Whosoff on their blogs.

WhosOff currently manages the holiday and vacations of tens of thousands of users worldwide -across thousands of companies and organisations both large and small.

Happy Birthday !

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:18:00 +0000

# Happy Birthday to us...#

On 1st July 2007 WhosOff celebrated its first year as the internet's first and only free to use Online staff holiday and vacation planner...

Back in July 2006 we really had no idea how popular a service like this could be and have been surprised at the take up, not only amongst SMEs but also departments of some 'very' large businesses around the world.

Our aim is to make WhosOff the first choice for business and other organisations to manage staff holiday and vacation.We aim to keep the site friendly, easy to use and give first class support.

After favourable reviews on sites such as Techcrunch.com, Webware.com, Killerstartups.com and recently downloadsquad.com we can see the word is spreading.We can now boast a considerable
and continously growing user base !

Thanks for all those who came on board and who support the site.

Who's blogging Whosoff ?

Being second is no longer 'second best'

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:18:00 +0000

Hi my name is 2 - You've probably heard of me, but not so long ago I used to be just another single digit, the second best, just number two,
you would n't even have looked at me twice, am I right?

In the old days everybody just knew about number 1, wanted to be number one, the first, the one and only, the 'numero uno' and for me and the rest of the guys..well, we never got a look in...

How things have changed! - now its my turn - everybody's talking about me ! Number 2 ...ok...I've got 'point zero' tagging along but wow! its great !
Number 3 is soooo jealous - anyway I expect his turn will come.

But for now, its me in the spot-light 2.0 , I'm the belle of the ball 2.0, in fact anything 2.0 is the biggest, bestest thing...ever...

Just add me after any noun, yes any noun, and it'll be appearing all over the web 2.0 in a jumping-jack-flash 2.0 second... how about Pizza 2.0 ? or Drawing Pin 2.0 ? or even Teapot 2.0 ?...Sounds great doesn't it ?

Is it just a 2.0 buzzword or am I really going to be on top of the World 2.0 ?
How long will it last and is number 3 coming over hill 2.0 ?

Watch this space 2.0

A smart solution for one office problem - Free

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:58:00 +0000

Business, particularly SMEs, are being inundated with promises from the likes of Google and Microsoft, of online delivered web applications.The current buzz words being 'Web 2.0' and 'Saas' (Software as a Service) and 'On demand'.

There are, of course, the many spreadsheet,word processing, personal calendar,Networking offerings but what real advantage do these online services have over our traditional desktop applications and how many business are really buying into this type of on-demand software?

I'm sure people running day to day businesses would n't mind getting a handle on what this whole 'Web 2.0' really means and how it can help their business in particular.One answer lies, for a lot of SMEs, in having one of their daily problems solved by one of these web 2.0 offerings.

www.WhosOff.com is an online workplace leave management service that makes organising time off easy. It is simple to use and solves an enduring office problem that every SME has.."who's off ?" And what's more the service is Free!

WhosOff.com is also a story of modest entrepreneurship - proving that you do not need to be in Silicon Valley or backed by millions in venture captial to get a project off the ground.

Techcrunch reviews WhosOff.com

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:39:00 +0000

The start of another week and another review of Whosoff.com
has been posted. This time, Duncan Riley of Techcrunch.com -
one of the web's best known blogs on the topics of new internet
products and developments.

You can read the article here and also view the
comments left by others

Recent Reviews

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:19:00 +0000

This week WhosOff.com has been appearing round the world on some significant blogs.

Read the review on webware.com - Rafe Needleman says..."I am a big fan of simple Web tools that make annoying tasks easier. One of the latest tools in that vein: WhosOff, a free Web service that helps you coordinate vacation and out-of-the-office times for people in your company"

Read the full review here

Thanks Rafe !

Also blogged recently

In Spain on GenBeta.com and wwwwhatsnew.com
In Japan on 100shikki.com
In USA on appscout.com , Itlnet.net , webware.com

BT Business Blog

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:14:00 +0000

Thanks to Simon Dickson for his piece about our site that
appeared on the BT Business blog this morning,

Read the full article here:
http://blog.btbroadbandoffice.com/archive/doing-business-online/one-uk-firms-modest-approach-t.php

Google Adwords - Science or Black Art ?

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:54:00 +0000

Since launching WhosOff.com in the summer of 2006, we have have been continuously studying the science of Google AdWords.We are drawing to the conclusion that it is not a science but a black art!

Like everybody else, I suspect, in the beginning, we just loaded up our AdWords with what we thought were useful words and phrases and expected the whole of the world to be knocking on our door for 2 or 3 pennies a shot.

But of course Google did not become an over night billion dollar business with this scenario - You have to hand it to them... no matter what your budget is - you can always be tempted to spend a little more.

So what have we discovered...so far..?

After nearly a year of statistics, trial and error,refining, and conversion tracking, we have discovered our best value phrases and words. We have chopped out a lot of under-performing or expensive words to be left with the cream of the crop.

The best performing words at the right price. In brief - Less is more. And...don't be seduced by the occasional expensive conversion!

Website improvements

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:29:00 +0000

Some new features have recently been added to Whosoff.com :

The bulk update facility now lets users update the current year and
the following year in the same line.

In employee administration, the employee's approver is shown

Users can now view half-day absence

Notes are viewable on ALL types of requests (Holiday/absence/out of office)
and in the calandar views

Whosoff.com is free and easy to use. Click here to sign up today

Other Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:46:00 +0000

Thanks to Joe Drumgoole , CEO of PutPlace.com in Ireland, for
taking the time to mention WhosOff on his blog.

It has also been picked up by Darrenbarefoot , a writer and technologist, living in Vancouver Canda.

Thanks guys

WhosOff.com

BBC Radio 2 Website of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:23:00 +0000

Thank You to BBC2's Miles Mendoza for making
WhosOff.com one of his websites of the day.

Lets all keep listening to Steve Wright in the afternoon
next week (20th Feb 1645hrs) to see if we get a mention!

Thank you to all WhosOff.com users for helping to make
our website a success.

Welcome to the WhosOff blog

noreply@blogger.com (The Planner) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:24:00 +0000

If you are a WhosOff user, please feel free post any comments
you have about WhosOff.com.

What best describes WhosOff.com; Staff Leave Planner, Staff Holiday Planner, Planner or even Year Planner is WhosOff.com the right name?

Let us know what you like about WhosOff.com and what additional
features you would like to be considered for future upgrades.

Because WhosOff.com is a free service offering a broad fit to
many different types of business, many companies have found
ways to cover their own staff holiday planning issues, please
share these ideas with other users so they may make best use
of the system in its current format.

If you want to, tell the community about your business,
add a link to your site, or tell us all a little more about how
you use WhosOff.com to manage your HR issues that would
all help.

Many Thanks
Whosoff.com