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MYeReputation's Basecamp walkthrough video

MYeReputation is an eMarketing consulting company that uses Basecamp with its clients. The company created a quite thorough screencast that walks customers through the process of getting started with Basecamp (4 min). Watch it and you may get some ideas for how to increase Basecamp uptake with your clients. If you've created a similar tool to help people get started with one of our products, let us know about it.

Video: How to attain inbox zero with Highrise Tasks

How to use Highrise Tasks to "snooze" emails and keep your inbox empty.

More info at Signal vs. Noise: How to attain inbox zero with Highrise Tasks.

Backpack and Highrise at Wall Street Journal site

Tips for 'Getting Things Done' (Video) is a video at The Wall Street Journal that includes a discussion of Backpack (and screenshots of Highrise) as tools that help you be more productive.

There's also a related article.

Video: Setting up 37signals Open Bar

If you use more than one 37signals product (or have multiple accounts within a product), you can make your life a lot easier with 37signals Open Bar. In this video, Jason and Jamie show how easy it is to set up Open Bar so you can switch quickly between your accounts.

Learn more about 37signals Open Bar or OpenID.

Backpack Tip: Jump to a specific date/month

How to jump to a specific date/month in the Backpack calendar:

Campfire video tip: Name shortcut

37signals' Jamis Buck shows a quick shortcut you can use to call out individual names in Campfire.

Video: One Year of Using Basecamp

In "One Year of Using Basecamp," Manny Hernandez and his friend Gustavito (last name unknown, maybe he's like Sade or Cher?) created this video showcasing the power of messaging through Basecamp.

My friend Gustavito brought Basecamp to our lives a year ago. Today, I can't imagine managing web projects without it. I want to share with you a fun video he did showcasing the power of messaging through Basecamp. We exploited the tool as much as it would let us, to stay on the same page with designers, developers, project managers and representatives from several different departments throughout the school, as we made Full Sail Online a reality this past October.

Video: Backpack tips for dragging

This video shows you how to use the Home/End and Page Up/Down keys for dragging items around a Backpack page quickly. Also, you'll see how easy it is to drag an item to a page in the sidebar.

New Highrise screencasts: Send email to a person page, create tasks via email, and import Outlook contacts

From Signal vs. Noise: We recently added a few new Highrise demo videos. Two of them show you how you can use your personal Highrise Dropbox email address and the last one walks you through the process of importing Outlook Express contacts into Highrise...

1. Send an email to a person page.
This video shows how you can use your dropbox to send an email to a person page in Highrise.

2. Create tasks via email.
This video shows you how to create a task by sending (or forwarding) an email to Highrise.

3. Get contacts out of Outlook and into Highrise.
Highrise lets you import contacts from a vCard file, Basecamp, Outlook, or ACT! This video shows you how to get contacts from Outlook Express into Highrise.

More Backpack demo videos: adding users, sharing pages, and importing Basecamp Milestones

From Signal vs. Noise:

We've recently added a few more "quick hit" demo videos to the Backpack tour. These tutorials show how easy it is add users to your Backpack account and share pages with them:

Video: Add others to your Backpack account
"Backpack excels when you use it with other people. Add co-workers, colleagues, friends, or family to your account and share pages, knowledge, files, calendars, reminders, and more."

Video: How to share Backpack pages with colleagues and friends
"Backpack makes it easy to share a page of information that you've created. People you share with can also add new items and change content on the page. It's perfect for quick collaboration or sharing knowledge."

And this video answers a question we get a lot...

Video: How to get your Basecamp Milestones into your Backpack Calendar
A FAQ from people who use both Basecamp and Backpack is "How do I get my Basecamp milestones to integrate with my Backpack Calendar?" The answer: By adding the Milestones iCal feed into your Backpack calendar. This video shows you how. More details here.