Overall Satisfaction with Podio
We use Podio across our organization. We are a nonprofit housing agency with offices in different cities in NC. We use Podio to organize events, to track projects, and as an agency-wide intranet for our employees. Podio cuts down on the number of emails employees receive and helps managers keep their eye on the progress of specific projects.
- Podio tasks lists are very helpful - employees can keep private task lists or assign their tasks to shared workspaces so their colleagues can pick up on something if they are out sick.
- Workspaces are very flexible and can be set up to include any number of employees or outside partners. You can design your own apps to help get work done, so everything is 100% customizable.
- The chat function and the activity feed in workspaces gives people a place to chat without filling up everyone's email inboxes.
- The calendar function in Podio is its weakest function. It's hard to sync Podio calendars to Outlook calendars, and the personal calendar is difficult to customize.
- There is a definite learning curve with Podio, especially for older employees who didn't grow up with social media.
- You really need a Podio administrator who helps people set up workspaces and apps for the first year. There is a danger in over-using the software, or expecting it to fix other organizational issues.
- Podio has required a lot of staff time from one or two of our employees, to set up and get the others on board.
- Once Podio is up and running, it saves a lot of time and helps us communicate better.
- Podio has some features - i.e. webforms - that have helped us do event registration and applications better.
We really hadn't used other project management software before Podio. We relied heavily on Outlook and Excel for communication and organization. Podio allows for more visibility across employee task lists and projects and helps us collaborate better.