By Jane Hosking
Quality communication within and beyond the workplace is key to a successful company and career. Here are five apps to help you grow your professional network and interact better with colleagues.
Slack
Slack is the team communication tool that is making a name for itself as the killer of email. This chat app brings all your communication needs together in one place, including both one-on-one and group conversations. Slack instantly syncs across all your devices, is feature-rich, customizable, and unlike most other messaging services, has an extremely effective search tool.
Price: Free
Available on: Android, iOS, and web
Addappt
Have you ever changed your contact details and had to inform your whole address book? Or lost your phone and all your contacts at the same time? With Addappt you can now change your contact information in one place and have it updated in all your connected friends’ address books. And if you lose your phone, by opening Addappt in a new device you can easily salvage your contacts.
Price: Free
Available on: Android and iOS
Bizzabo
This innovative app could be described as the Tinder of the business world, bringing online networking to real life at conferences and events. With Bizzabo, people attending events can check who else will be there, and are given suggestions of whom they should meet, tailored by their personal profile or preferences. Bizzabo is also an incredibly useful tool for event organizers who can use it to communicate with attendees before, during, and after the event.
Price: Free
Available on: Android and iOS
LinkedIn Connected
Most people are familiar with LinkedIn’s standard app. But the LinkedIn Connected app aims to help strengthen your professional relationships even further. This app not only predicts who you should reach out to and when, but it also keeps you up to date on job changes, birthdays, work anniversaries, and more. Also, by linking to your calendar LinkedIn Connected can be an important source of pre-meeting intelligence.
Price: Free
Available on: Android, Blackberry, iOS, and Windows
CamCard
If you’re sick of that ever-growing pile of business cards on your desk that you can’t be bothered adding into your phone, then CamCard is what you need. With this handy app you can simply take a photo of a business card with your phone and it will capture the information and save it to your contacts.
Price: Free for limited features and $1.29 for the full version
Available on: Android and iOS
