While it’s not fantastic, Basecamp now provides a centralized touch point for all of our writers. Finally, as more writers joined our motley crew, we adopted Basecamp as our main project management and information center. It’s not perfect, but far better than Windows Live SkyDrive for real-time collaboration. Neither of us are fans of doing a lot of writing in Google Docs, but it allows us (and our writers) to all use the same document as a pseudo-white board during discussions. We use Google Apps ( there’s a not often publicized free version) for email, instant messaging, shared calendar and shared platform for Google Docs. We’ve seen each other twice in the last ten months, but work together pretty effectively utilizing a number of existing (and cheap) tools. She lives in Charlotte, NC and I live in Dallas TX. Personally, I’m an early adopter of, ahem collaborative work management tools, which has only increased since Connie and I joined forces last year to buy and now run TechWhirl.
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My quick research on the Interwebs found that collaborative work management tools, sometimes known as collaborative software or groupware, is, and I quote from Wikipedia, computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals. Oh, stuff that helps us brainstorm and work together – gotcha, now where was I? Our Current Collaborative Work Management Tools I could define all four words individually, but strung together, not so much.
Collaborative Work Management Tools: A Layman’s Definitionįull disclosure: I had zero idea what collaborative work management tools meant before the start of this article.
But from our experiences there are few, if any, really great collaborative work management tools out there that allow teams across time and space to effectively do work together in anything close to real-time. Sure, there are plenty of tools for sharing information like, well the telephone or email or if we go all web 2.0, the awesomeness that is Dropbox. We here at TechWhirl (read Connie, me and about 20 volunteers) are always looking for better ways to collaborate since none of us live in the same city.
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