This program allows you to build diagrams of processes and monitor their execution. As a rule, tasks do not exist on their own, they are usually interrelated, and the best way to show this is to build a diagram of processes.

Almost every task in the program can be drilled down to a separate diagram, until the project is broken down into elementary operations. Having constructed a detailed scheme, you can simulate the future execution of the project, what will become the basis for the planned schedule, which can be compared with the current execution of tasks without leaving the program. You can also place some tasks in the Calendar and set reminders on them.

Download Video Editor & Video Maker - InShot apk 1.711.1312 for Android. Pro Video Editor🎥 with Music🎶, Transitions, Slideshow, Emoji😆, Meme. InShort is much like a ladder logic editor however the results are great GANTT charts that are easily understood by anyone as they show the named tasks, who is responsible, what they need, the required result and the date it needs to be done.

More formally, the program allows you to build a customized, based on the BPMN notation, PERT diagram of the project (with events and processes at nodes). Then this description of the project is used to generate a Gantt chart and track the progress of the project.

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So, inShort is a powerful tool to work with projects and business processes, which can be applied not only in office but also for personal purposes. You can further explore the capabilities of the program with the detailed interactive User Guide.

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Here are a few cases in which this program can help you:

InShot makes it easier for you to create Vlogs, Music Videos and Travel Presentations. You can add music, sound effects or record your own voice to make it blend in with your content. You can even edit photos and make captivating memes that you can share with your friends! Swipeable ads Advertisers can share their ads to Inshort’s reader base in 60 words along with an embedded image or video. The ads do not involve mandatory engagement and are listed as “Powered by” along with the advertiser’s name.

• You have a difficult task, you do not know where to start and how to approach it. Try to approach it with this program and you’ll find out where to start and where to move.
• Or conversely, you have a lot of problems: you are literally surrounded with task managers and planners, but at the same time feel that you make no headway, like a squirrel in a cage.
• Draw your goals in this program, and you’ll find out, which of your tasks work for your goals and which — against them.
• You suspect that business processes in your organization are not optimal and you are doing a lot of unnecessary work? Build a scheme of processes in this program, and you’ll see what’s what.
• Need to plan a complex project? Draw a sketch, and you won’t have to constantly make the project plan over in a project manager.
• You need to organize the learning process by a mass of sources in a certain order? Build a curriculum inShort, and you won’t get lost in the new material.

It is important to understand that this program by itself does not solve problems and does not reach your goals, but it allows to see them in new ways and discover the right direction for your efforts.

Key features:

• Building the diagram of processes and resources (PERT network diagram of the project, based on BPMN notation).
• Drill down the diagram elements.
• Tracking the execution of processes.
• Advanced mode of pre-planning.
• Integration with the standard Calendar.
• Displaying the list of tasks in the form of a Gantt chart.
• Separation of physical and information flows.
• Export of diagrams into PDF files and OPML outlines.
• Ability to specify the expected time of execution, both directly and parametrically.
• Working calendars taking into account various schedules of work for implementation of tasks.
• Work resources and their assignment to tasks.

Advanced features of project management in accordance with the Theory of Constraints technique:

• finding the critical path;
• positioning of time buffers of the project;
• calculation of buffer sizes;
• calculation of late starts for feeding paths of the project;
• tracking of time indicators during project execution.

Inshorts Read

Cannot solve a problem? Draw it inShort and sort things out with it there. It’s like voodoo but it works.

by Neha Guptaneha.gupta@wan-ifra.org| March 3, 2020

Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Inshorts, at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India Conference in New Delhi.

The trio began its entrepreneurial journey with TLabs incubator in 2013, followed by a seed round from Times Internet and a group of angel investors including Flipkart founders Sachin and Binny Bansal.

In 2015, Inshorts, which delivers snappy news summaries in 60 words, raised Rs 25 crore (approximately $3.4 million) in a Series A round from Tiger Global and Rebright Partners. Four months later, it raised Rs 127 crore (about $17.5 million) in Series B led by Tiger Global.

The company became operationally profitable in November 2017, hitting a net revenue run rate of Rs 25 crore ($3.4 million), compared to Rs 3 crore ($0.4 million) in 2016. Its revenue for 2019-20 was $14 million.

Today, Inshorts is India’s highest-rated news application with more than 15 million downloads both on Android and IOS.

Tech disruptions and form factors

Through the years, the digital space has been witness to an onslaught of tech-driven disruptions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) driven feeds, wireless technology such as WiFi, 4G and 5G, radio waves and optic fibers, easily overwhelming the traditional news space.

Contrary to popular perception, technology has only enabled these disruptions in the media sector, and not caused them.

The biggest disruptions are form-factors such as email-newsletters, social media posts, news hour debates and the daily newspaper deck. The format and user interface that works for print media differs drastically from what works for digital, broadcast, social media or the radio.

In addition to being a co-founder of Inshorts, Deepit Purkayastha is also Inshorts Chief Strategy Officer and oversees the business and strategic roadmap of the enterprise.

“Media houses must remember to use platform-specific form factors, which is what InShorts capitalised on,” he said.Technology does not dictate form factorInshorts works on a combination of technology and form factor innovation. ML and AI are technology innovations that will not reap benefits until linked to a platform-appropriate form factor, enabled by said technology.

“Once technology and form factor begin working harmoniously, only then can a publisher leverage that disruptive force. When Inshorts was launched 6 years ago, most media companies took print content and dumped it on a website, resulting in an overwhelming consumer experience,” Purkayastha said.

India is the second largest global smartphone market, behind China and ahead of the United States.

In 2019, adults spent an average of 1 hour 29 minutes per day on digital platforms, according to a research by eMarketer. In the past two years, the average digital consumption in India has seen 2X growth, as per a BCG-CII report.

In 2013, when the company was launched, India had not yet witnessed the smartphone boom. Data was expensive, existing aggregators had not innovated on form factor, and smartphones were running on 2G connections.

“This resulted in costly video consumption, and a cluttered run-off-the-mill list of collated articles. This was our first hook,” Purkayastha said. “Most of our peers were passive news readers because of unsuccessful form factors. Their main source of content consumption was Facebook because the other sources were overwhelming to consume on the smartphone.”

Today, the first point of news access for 500 million Indians, with data costs as low as Rs 18.5 ($0.26) per GB, is the smartphone with inexpensive 4G internet.

Artificial intelligence and editorial collaboration

InShorts’ form factor are single screen cards comprising a headline, an image and a crisp summary. These cards can be navigated by swiping and are editorially curated with AI-driven personalisation.

The company was clear in its motive to not burden a consumer with information. While Inshorts registers users across age groups, its most active users are in the 20-30 age bracket.

“People, especially young adults, don’t have time, and have a sea of content to choose from. This is where artificial intelligence fit into our product experience,” – Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder, Inshorts

Parsing of data and content summarisation has proven to be one of the biggest challenges of AI and machine learning.

Another hurdle that faces a completely AI-driven news product is the possibility of consumers getting segregated into buckets, reading news that they are comfortable with, and not stepping out of their echo chambers.

What works best for Inshorts is striking a balance between AI and editorial inputs.

An AI-backed algorithm called Rapid60 automatically condenses a news article into a 60-word brief. The algorithm is born out of analysing a database of more than half a million articles summarised by Inshorts editors during a five-year period and can summarise more than 100K articles per month.

Inshorts produces multiple story cards each day. The 20 percent most read content on the app, which brings in the lion’s share of clicks, is still entirely editorially curated and trumps the click-through rate of the 80 percent AI-driven content.

How a story will be pushed out to the audience is based on a rating system ranging from 0 to 1000. It predicts reader interests based on time spent by them on each news card, and then marries the two with AI.

“If an editor rates a story 1000, it will be pushed out to the audience, irrespective of their chosen interests,” Purkayastha said.

“A swiping card system will always translate to more clicks, compared to a list of links, which naturally tends to lean towards clickbait, decreasing the time spent per article.” – Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder, Inshorts

Although the brand’s single screen summaries don’t grab as many eyeballs as a clickbait headline would, the comparative average time spent on an Inshorts story is 4-5 times.

“Form factor influences algorithms more than we realise. One should take a call on the form factor, understand its biases and only then deploy AI as a subservient tool to achieve the company goal,” Purkayastha said.

Advertising and revenue

Inshorts primary source of monetisation is advertising through B2B channels.

The company produces about 1,000 shorts per day and an Inshorts consumer spends an average 12 minutes a day and manages to consume almost 86 shorts.

The company has the highest Daily Active Users (DAU) to Monthly Active Users (MAU) ratio of 42 percent across the board, a mother metric for consumer-oriented applications. Seventy percent of the app downloads are organic, and 90 percent of the feed comprises factual hard news.

The company regularly collaborates with brands such as Uber, Airtel and Netflix for advertising, which makes for the lion’s share of the revenue pie. The nature of the advertisement is non-invasive, skippable and appears exactly how a story card would, and has a native advertising feel to it.Swipeable adsAdvertisers can share their ads to Inshort’s reader base in 60 words along with an embedded image or video. The ads do not involve mandatory engagement and are listed as “Powered by” along with the advertiser’s name.

The engagement the company sees on these sponsored shorts is much higher compared to the traditional interstitial ad format (ads designed to be placed between content), resulting in advertisers being willing to pay higher rates.

Plans for 2020

Inshorts recently launched a product called “Public” – a location-based, video-first, hyper-local social platform for stringers, publishers and brands to report news.

In Shorts

“The power of form factor is so strong that it can act as a self-sufficient PR tool. Public was able to generate 50,000 downloads entirely organically without celebrity endorsements or campaigning.”

The company wants to actively use AI/ML and image processing to moderate “Public,” which is already seeing more than a million unique videos per month by users across India.Ambient interface innovationsInshorts is also planning to come up with new interactive forms of delivering news such as graphic cards, collections factoids. The company already collaborates with Ipsos (a global market research firm based in Paris) for polls.

“Our typical poll gets about 4 lakh [400,000] responders in a single day. We realise the huge ground of resources we’re sitting on, and we intend to make full use of it this year,” Purkayastha said.

Attachments

• Slide deck: Technology and news (Deepit Purkayastha, DMI 2020)

Neha Gupta

Multimedia Journalist