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Summary: Really explains how to use GoldMine 5.0's powerful features
Review: Like the other books in the "dummies" series, the title doesn't do it justice. The book explains how to use GoldMine's powerful features to reshape your company's important processes and empower workgroups.It simplifies the processes of thinking about how things are done now, and how the power of GoldMine can be harnessed as an information pipeline internally and externally. For those who think the software is really just a contact manager, the book will be an eye opener. It explains how GoldMine can automate processes, delegate and monitor tasks, and maximize utilization of resources. We have recommended it to our clients as a both a training and reference guide.
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Summary: Really explains how to use GoldMine 5.0's powerful features
Review: Like the other books in the "dummies" series, the title doesn't do it justice. The book explains how to use GoldMine's powerful features to reshape your company's important processes and empower workgroups. It simplifies the processes of thinking about how things are done now, and how the power of GoldMine can be harnessed as an information pipeline internally and externally. For those who think the software is really just a contact manager, the book will be an eye opener. It explains how GoldMine can automate processes, delegate and monitor tasks, and maximize utilization of resources. We have recommended it to our clients as a both a training and reference guide.
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Summary: How to do, but not how to use
Review: This book is of great value or limited value depending on what your needs are. If you have been using GoldMine and have a good understanding of its purpose and function then there are interesting things in here to help you use it better. However, if you are not knowledgeable about GoldMine and, as others have indicated here, your boss drops it on your desk and tells you to learn it then this book has minimal value. Like every other book on GoldMine that I have read, it lacks an integrated approach.
The information in the book is good and accurate, but is all scattered pieces of knowledge without any information as to how all of it works together. Think of it like this, suppose that someone wanted to teach you chess. They described each and every piece and the board. They described the manner in which each piece could move and restrictions on movement. Then they said to go play chess. You would surely lose if you don't know that the goal is to capture the other king nor how all the pieces work together to create an effective defense or offense. This book describes how each piece works but not how to get them to work together.
Unfortunately I can't point anyone to any other book on GoldMine that does not suffer the same problem. They describe all the ingredients and how to prepare the ingredients but not how to bake the cake.
Rating:
Summary: How to do, but not how to use
Review: This book is of great value or limited value depending on what your needs are. If you have been using GoldMine and have a good understanding of its purpose and function then there are interesting things in here to help you use it better. However, if you are not knowledgeable about GoldMine and, as others have indicated here, your boss drops it on your desk and tells you to learn it then this book has minimal value. Like every other book on GoldMine that I have read, it lacks an integrated approach.
The information in the book is good and accurate, but is all scattered pieces of knowledge without any information as to how all of it works together. Think of it like this, suppose that someone wanted to teach you chess. They described each and every piece and the board. They described the manner in which each piece could move and restrictions on movement. Then they said to go play chess. You would surely lose if you don't know that the goal is to capture the other king nor how all the pieces work together to create an effective defense or offense. This book describes how each piece works but not how to get them to work together.
Unfortunately I can't point anyone to any other book on GoldMine that does not suffer the same problem. They describe all the ingredients and how to prepare the ingredients but not how to bake the cake.
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Summary: This book should have come with the software
Review: This book shows you how to do most anything you need to do with Goldmine. I use Goldmine daily and still am learning all the ins and outs of the program. This book helped me alot and I keep it near my computer and refer to it often!
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Summary: Helpful?!
Review: To a breif extent this book is helpful. I have never used Goldmine before and my company gave this book to me with hopes of better understanding on specific features Goldmine offers. GM within its self is a very basic program and is not hard to figure out. The book brought out a lot of little sugestions to help move about a lot smother. Unfortunatly I have found confusion on many sujects. For example one of my larger tasks thus far has been adding fields into the fields tab (Chapter 19). I think I would have a better understanding of this chapter if my company purchased GM Version 5. I'm sure the time I spent on this task could have been minimized if the author would have taken just a little more time for us users who are a little behind on the upgrade process.
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