BigMarker.com Offers Free, Lifetime Web Conferencing And Project Management Tools For Small Businesses And Nonprofits

Get a Private Community for Life Through March 1st

2012-02-29

CHICAGO, IL, February 29, 2012 (Press-News.org) BigMarker.com (www.bigmarker.com), the social network for Communities, is having a giveaway of lifetime proportions. Anyone who creates a Private Community on BigMarker before March 1st, 2012 will retain that Community for life, free of charge. Whether members wish to use a Private Community now or later, anyone who upgrades before March 1st will keep the Private Community, free of charge, forever.

"[BigMarker's] real secret is not in its affordability or its video-conferencing platform, but in its uncanny ability to help us manage our team's progress in between Conferences," said Tracey Patterson, President and COO of Powered by Action (www.poweredbyaction.org), "BigMarker has become a collaboration tool that makes the day-to-day easy, so we can focus more on our mission of helping developing and distressed communities become self-sufficient."

BigMarker Communities are ideal for small businesses trying to grow on a tight budget:
• Meet anytime in the Virtual Conference Room
• Meet face-to-face with employees and clients cross-country
• Streamline project management by creating, assigning, and prioritizing tasks
• Share files
• Touch base regularly, outside of a Conference, with the Community Bulletin
• Chart progress with the Task Timeline and Community Calendar
• Send company newsletters with updates and announcements
• Send Kudos to recognize and thank employees for a job well done

"BigMarker offers an inexpensive yet comprehensive solution for small businesses that want tools that work with a price point that works, too," said Joe Yeoman, BigMarker's Outreach Coordinator. "We believe in the importance of small businesses and nonprofits in a landscape dominated by corporations, and so we are offering the chance for these organizations to benefit from a free, lifetime Private Community filled with the tools to increase productivity and the opportunity to have a global reach."

Anyone who creates a Private Community on BigMarker before March 1st, 2012 will retain that Community for life, free of charge. Private Communities created after March 1st, 2012 will cost $19.95 a month. Public Communities are, and always will be, free as BigMarker believes in open and accessible collaboration for all. To create a Community, first sign up at BigMarker.com (www.bigmarker.com/signup).

About BigMarker:
BigMarker.com is the social network for Communities. Based on the belief that anyone can make a difference, BigMarker's mission is to equip Communities around the world with unlimited web conferencing and collaboration tools, empowering anyone to make a visible and lasting impact.
BigMarker launched in March 2011 and has been connecting people face-to-face, across the globe, ever since. To join an existing Community or create your own, please visit http://www.bigmarker.com.

BigMarker.com is the social network for Communities. They believe that Communities are stronger than individuals and that with the right tools, any Community can make a visible and lasting impact in the world. By offering unlimited web Conferencing and key project management tools, they hope to empower and enable Communities to make the difference they want to see in the world.

For further information, please contact them at (312) 869-9870

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