Kordiam Reviews

We rely on Desk-Net

Comments: Compared to what we were using before-- Google Spreadsheets-- Desk Net is 1000% better. I searched many solutions and DeskNet was the best value for the right features. It and the staff quickly adapted to each other and now we can't imagine life pre-Desk Net.

Pros:

Desk-Net is a very easy to learn and adaptable system to keep a complicated editorial calendar organized across many employees and platforms. The interface is clear, the features are perfectly suited to what we need.

Cons:

The interface coud always be better and more Mac-like. I would love to see better integration with: 1. payroll features, so payments could be added and integrated with office payroll software 2. awards features. So stories that should be awards-considered are easy to track through the year 3. Integration with newsletter makers like Iterable so stories can flow over with a click

Very powerful and customisable without sacrificing simplicity

Comments: Desk-Net played a crucial role in digitally transforming a national bi-weekly print publication into an online magazine with multiple daily updates.

Pros:

Desk-Net is the gold standard in editorial planning. It's also an incredibly flexible and easy to understand tool that everybody, regardless of their level of computer savviness, can use with ease. Even advanced configurations can be carried out by non IT staff without steep learning curves.

Cons:

Not really Desk-Net's problem, but its incredible flexibility will tempt organisations to just model their existing workflows with it instead thinking first how to simplify those workflows.

Very useful tool

Comments: The organization of the newspaper work is easier and the connection of different houses is very good.

Pros:

We have a cooperation with several other newspapers. Desk Net gives the possibility to announce, plan and deposit texts very easily. I like a lot the possibility to mark texts in colors in categories like planned or done/available,

Cons:

When texts are not connected with a detailed date then the data tends to get lost or hard to be seen. And in the my topics section done data doesn´t disappear. It would be interesting to have an overview who opened a file

User-friendly en powerful

Comments: Very good. Once you have set it up properly, the ball will automatically start rolling

Pros:

The perfect overview gives us fully grip on our production

Cons:

A directly two-way connection with our CMS is on our whishinglist

Desk-Net has been great for story planning and collaboration in one place

Comments: We used to have users using many different platforms or methods for planning stories, schedules, events and such. People would use Google Docs, email, calendars, Lotus Notes, and probably many other options for story planning. It made moving from one department to another challenging. It made cross department collaboration challenging. And it made supporting it as part of the IT team quite challenging. Desk-Net was easy to implement and adopt across all editorial departments to streamline story processes.

Pros:

The software was fairly easy to setup, maintain, and get end users on board with using. It has been an excellent tool for our editorial department.

Cons:

I don't think the interface is always as intuitive and modern as it could be. Other than that, we haven't had much in the way of negative experiences.

Great tool, great support!

Comments: Desk-Net is a very modern tool. It enables the editorial team to plan topics transparently. Working in the editorial department without Desk-Net would no longer be conceivable. We really appreciate the direct contact with the Desk-Net staff and also with the managing director, who is always ready to listen.

Pros:

Desk-Net has a very user-friendly and intuitive user interface. There is no need to install anything on the client as it runs completely in the browser. You can configure your filters and interfaces as required by the individual employee. The system is very stable and we have never had an outage.

Cons:

I can't think of any significant disadvantages. A staging system would sometimes be useful so that you can test things.

A useful communications planning tool

Comments: It is widely used in newsrooms - journalist or corporate comm - which indicates its usefulness for this purpose.

Pros:

It helps us to implement the idea of a corporate network, despite being a small team. I like the overview over my scheduled tasks and publications. We can conntect teams - and have their input of topics - that were not connected before.

Cons:

It is quite expensive for a small team.

Every author can easily take part on a daily newspaper planning

Comments: Our biggest benefit is networking with our partners. We deliver our newspaper articles to an related newspaper. Out daily planning is a huge help for those colleagues - for them it is able to see in real-time, which article we are going to publish. Otherwise, we are able to see the daily planning from another related newspaper-partner and can easliy benefit. Another benefit is the communication with our freelancers: authors can easily see, which article with how much signs we need at which time. Desknet sends automatically an E-Mail to those freelancers. In the past, we had to send E-Mails via Outlook with all those information. Now, they can see everything in Desknet - including attachments and comments. Another benefit, I think, is sharing information with all. Attachments, comments, using the "Notice"-function: Every person in this room and abroad can easily take part. Desknet facilitates our daily work in a local newspaper office.

Pros:

Our biggest benefit is networking with our partners. We deliver our newspaper articles to an related newspaper. Out daily planning is a huge help for those colleagues - for them it is able to see in real-time, which article we are going to publish. Otherwise, we are able to see the daily planning from another related newspaper-partner and can easliy benefit. Another benefit is the communication with our freelancers: authors can easily see, which article with how much signs we need at which time. Desknet sends automatically an E-Mail to those freelancers. In the past, we had to send E-Mails via Outlook with all those information. Now, they can see everything in Desknet - including attachments and comments. Another benefit, I think, is sharing information with all. Attachments, comments, using the "Notice"-function: Every person in this room and abroad can easily take part. Desknet facilitates our daily work in a local newspaper office. Additionally, I like the "my planning"-function.

Cons:

We must assign a photo to a name - otherwise, our newspaper photographer doesn`t get the information. The short title is at least a little bit too short. I don`t like the new box, in which you must confirm, which state of publication a theme gets. Two clicks more compared to the "old" Desknet. We dont need the separation - we only need "accepted". But this can distinguish between users. You see: the cons are void.

Easy to use and very helpful

Comments: Look above at the Pros section. Desk-Net is the easiest way to get an overview.

Pros:

Desk-Net is a very professional tool that allows our 150 Journalists to get an easy overview over the current planned stories and also for all the long-term based articels. We can add simply new formats, can mark and inform all persons involved into a story and everyone can see, whats going on. This is especially for 20 Minuten with 8 local offices around switzerland - even in the french- and italian speaking part - extremely important.

Cons:

The only thing that I personally dont like that much, is the fact, that functions and layout are changend by Desk-Net.

It is an excellent tool

Pros:

We are very happy with Desk-Net. It is very easy to use as well as admin or user.

Cons:

It takes some time to find out which functions and areas are useful for you. We actually only use the area under "Topics".

Functional and easy

Comments: The features makes it a functional software for using in the job every day.

Pros:

You can sign in every date, share it with all colleagues or just single groups or you can even hide it. Furthermore you can write in and upload textes and photos.

Cons:

Sometimes it is impossible to export the content in another system like alphamedia automatically, so you have to do this by hand.

Good software, if everyone takes care of it

Pros:

- Easy to use - Clear structure and different Icons organize - Responsive design for mobile-use - Remind-Function - Just a few clicks to have a great overview

Cons:

Everything fine. The old problem that the page did not update itself has been fixed.

Recommendation

Pros:

- Easy and incomplicated use - Overview for planing - no unnecessary tools - acutal noticed topcis are immediately refreshed

Cons:

- too many ressorts avoid an overview (is actually a pro, because the user can choose the main ressorts)

very good

Comments: It took a little time to get used to the software completely. Meanwhile the planning of the topics with Desk-Net is simple and very clear. This also helps with creative work, because planned topics can be planned for different media channels at the same time.

Pros:

- good clarity - very good structure - media-neutral planning - many useful functions

Cons:

- connection of Desknet calendar to outlook unfortunately does not work

Easy to use

Pros:

The software is easy to use and clear. Very suitable to work with in a team.

Cons:

Indispensable for me for daily planning at work.

Quick and Easy Tool

Pros:

you can work with it from anywhere: for example smartphone or computer

Cons:

there was nothing there. i have no problems

Daily Chaos

Comments: Very helpful and patient

Pros:

Great tool to structure the daily chaos of a newsroom

Cons:

There is No IPhone-App for Desk-Net, unfortunately

Great organizing software

Comments: Organizing meetings and topics as a journalist for a regional newspaper in Germany. Desk-Net is a great help on a daily basis, connecting with colleagues and freelancers.

Pros:

- Easy handling - Great overview - Usable to individual needs - Transparent to other users from the same company (saves lots of phone time)

Cons:

No real cons. It just takes some time getting used to organizing your work with it, that's all.

Using Desk-net

Pros:

Easy to use and learn. Really a good Programm.

Cons:

There is nothing negative to say except that I have to re-register each time.

Übersichtlicht, schnell und effizient

Comments: Der Gesamteindruck ist überwiegend positiv, da Desk-Net viele sehr nützliche und gute Funktionen bietet, der Support i.d.R. zügig erfolgt und man dort auch neuen Ideen gegenüber aufgeschlossen ist.

Pros:

Desk-Net ist gerade für die Planung größerer Redaktionen mit mehreren Standorten ideal, weil es übersichtlich, schnell und effizient zu nutzen, einfach zu schulen und zügig zu implementieren ist. Es ermöglicht darüber hinaus, das Bespielen mehrerer Kanäle und die Abstimmung mit Freien Mitarbeitern und Dienstleistern.

Cons:

Desk-Net versteht sich als reines Themen- und Terminplanungstool, andere wichtige Redaktionsmanagement-Anwendungen, wie z.B. eine verbesserte Planung von Diensten, Schichten, Urlauben und freien Tagen wäre hilfreich.

Desk-Net als zentrales Planungstool unseres multilingualen Newsrooms

Pros:

Die enorme Flexibilität. Desk-Net bietet sehr viele Möglichkeiten der Individualisierung und Anpassung an alle möglichen Workflows. Selbst in unserer anspruchsvollen Arbeitsumgebung konnte Desk-Net unser altes, eigen entwickeltes und auf unsere Bedürfnisse zugeschnittenes Tool problemlos ersetzen.

Cons:

Bei Desk-Net läuft man Gefahr, zu Beginn von den vielen Möglichkeiten der Anpassung erschlagen zu werden. Doch wenn man erst mit dem System vertraut ist, sieht man schnell die Vorteile der zahlreichen Anpassungsmöglichkeiten.

Alles ist planbar

Comments: Desk-Net ist aus dem Redaktionsalltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Teilweise ist die Bedienung leider etwas kompliziert und die Integration mit O356 insb. Teams wäre ein echter zugewinn.

Pros:

Desk-Net ist strukturiert aufgebaut und die Module sind flexibel einsetzbar.

Cons:

Mobile Nutzung ist nahezu unbrauchbar und ein wirkliches gravierendes Manko.

Professioneller Planungstool, perfekt für eine Redaktion

Pros:

Desknet ist sehr flexibel, wenn man genug Zeit in die Einrichtung investiert hat, kann man alle Szenarien abbilden.

Cons:

Manchmal gibt es Performanceprobleme, werden aber schnell behoben

Tolles Programm!

Comments: Super, hilft total für eine Wochenplanung.

Pros:

Gute Einplanungmöglichkeiten, perfekt super toll

Cons:

Habe an dem Programm nichts auszusetzen.

Übersichtliches Tool zur Koordination und Themenplanung

Pros:

Das Tool ist sehr übersichtlich. Man sieht auf einen Blick Aufgaben, Termine und Themen eines Teams oder wahlweise auch der ganzen Redaktion.

Cons:

Eine automatische Aktualisierung wenn sich einzelne Einträge auf der Seite geändert haben, wäre hilfreich.