1.) What is Unawave?
Unawave is a revolutionary, elegant, and easy to use work management application developed on the breakthrough Google Wave collaboration framework. We believe that it is the killer "Business Application" that will truly showcase the power of Google Wave's collaboration engine by solving a pain point that is experienced by tens of millions of business professionals, every day, in all industries.
2.) Why should I use Unawave?
- Do you break out in a cold sweat when it comes to planning your work assignments, be they simple tasks or complex projects?
- Do you dread the process of assigning tasks to your team members?
- Are you always wondering about overall work or project status?
- Do you feel that collecting work status from your extended project team often feels like trying to push water up-hill?
- Does your team complain about the time it takes for them to provide you with task or work status updates regarding their progress?
- Do you feel that you never have the most up to date information on the overall status of all your work assignments?
- Is keeping your team, your superiors, and your subordinates up to date on work or project status keeping you up at night?
If you answered YES to some or all of the above questions, then Unawave is for you.
3.) What are the benefits of Unawave?
Unawave empowers individuals, team members, team leaders, and managers, in real time by:
- Simplifying the process of creating and assigning work assignments from the simple to the complex to team members, next door or on the other side of the world, in real time.
- Enabling team members to accept work assignments and update assignment progress in real-time
- Integrating task status updates from multiple team members into easy to use dashboards that provide overall work (project) status
- Reporting and sharing work status via embeddable work/project dashboards
4.) I don’t have a Google Wave account. What should I do?
Google wave has opened to the public! Go to
http://wave.google.com to sign-up for a new account or log in using your existing google gmail, or google app account.
5.) How do I install Unawave?
To install the Unawave extension, you need to click “Extensions” in the Navigation panel of Google Wave. Here you'll find a list of gadgets including Unawave with an installer that seamlessly integrates into Google Wave.
6.) How do I create a project for my team?
Once you have successfully installed the Unawave extension you’ll notice that the “New Wave” button next to your search field has been transformed into a pulldown style menu. Clicking this will reveal three action items, such as “New Unawave Project”, “New Unawave Task”, “New Unawave Milestone”. Select “New Unawave Project” and a new wave will appear where you can create your project and start adding your team members.
7.) How do I create tasks?
Once you have successfully installed the Unawave extension you’ll notice that the “New Wave” button next to your search field has been transformed into a pulldown style menu. Clicking this will reveal three action items, such as “New Unawave Project”, “New Unawave Task”, “New Unawave Milestone”. Select “New Unawave Task” and a wave will appear where you can add details such as task name, who’s responsible, when the task is due by, and a status and description.
8.) How do I create milestones?
Once you have successfully installed the Unawave extension you’ll notice that the “New Wave” button next to your search field has been transformed into a pulldown style menu. Clicking this will reveal three action items, such as “New Unawave Project”, “New Unawave Task”, “New Unawave Milestone”. Select “New Unawave Milestone” and a wave will appear where you can add details such as milestone name, who’s responsible, date and time, and description.
9.) What does the project dashboard do?
Unawave creates a high-level dashboard view of all of your projects. This information is updated in real-time as your work progresses. Our dashboard gives you the ability to view the status of all your tasks and milestones. In one simple wave you can see how many tasks and milestones have been completed and how many remain. Dashboards also offer a convienient way to link directly to the waves you want to access.
10.) How do I add or remove team members to a specific project?
We understand the changing complexities that make up your work assignments. Given that teams grow and change throughout the course of your project, we’ve made it simple to easily add or remove team members along the way. The simplest way to do this is by opening the dashboard wave for the project you want to manage. There you’ll see a link to access a wave that allows you to manage your team. You’ll notice red minus icons next to the team members to remove or a green plus icon to add new members to your project. Remember, you can also add new team members along the way when creating tasks and milestones. You’ll notice that our “Who’s responsible” pulldown has an “other” option which allows you to type in the Google Wave or Gmail address of your newest team member.
11.) Can I still upload attachments, reply, edit, and add comments to Unawave waves?
Simply put, Yes! Unawave takes nothing away from all the great functionality Google Wave offers. They are all functional and simply make Unawave’s work management system more useful for your organization.
12.) What are some tips and tricks I should know about?
One of the best tips we can offer is that everyone should leverage the built-in search field and get to know some of the robust queries that it’s capable of. Our favorite is to search for the “Project Name” and then simply save the entire search query by clicking the “Save Search” button. This allows Google Wave to save and store your search directly in your left hand navigation bar so that you can always gain quick access by project name.
