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Trello, Inc., is a rapidly growing company that provides cloudbased software for managing your projects. Although Trello is indeed a wonderful project management platform, it is rarely described as the powerful and dynamic social media website it really is. In my opinion, Trello even has the potential to replace Facebook as our "go-to" social app.
The company's core product, Trello. com, more than doubled its users during the 18 months through October 2015, when it reached 10 million total users. The company has confirmed nearly 2 million of those were monthly active users. This may seem small compared to Pinterest's 100 million monthly active users (not to mention Facebook's 1.55 billion monthly active users). However, if you look closely, Trello appears to be on the verge of doing social media in a way that no other current app can touch.
WHAT IS TRELLO?
Trello is commonly thought of as an online project management app. It was developed in 2011 by Fog Creek Software, a company already known at the time for the popular Stack Exchange network (which allows users to post and answer questions about various topics). On July 24, 2014, Trello was spun off as its own company.
Trello is based on a concept called "teams," and you can create as many Trello Teams as you like. Teams can consist of only one member (you), or you can allow others to join one or more of your teams. Think of a Trello Team as the top-level categorization tool for all the other information inside the app.
Within each Trello Team, you create Trello Boards. Boards are modeled after a concept known as "Kanban" that was originally developed by Toyota in the 1940s to facilitate just-in-time manufacturing. Toyota's work in this area has become a core foundation for the modern concept of "lean," which is quickly gaining acceptance in many service industries (including "lean law"). Trello Boards are meant roughly to replicate a physical corkboard, with thumbtacks and paper note cards.
Each Trello Board consists of Trello Lists and Trello Cards. A Trello List is essentially a column on the board that can hold Trello Cards, and each list can be labeled with any useful title. A common way to organize a Trello Board is...