It has been a year since your posting, what did you select? Do you have any lessons to share?

I am writing a paper for school on the implementation of a Collaboration tool for a company, so your insights would be very helpful.

Thank You Evan

Have you ever tried Central Desktop? Well, in one sentence… Central Desktop is one of the best Project Management, File Sharing, Team Collaboration tools around. You’ve heard of Microsoft Sharepoint, right? Well, Central Desktop is 110% better. I’m confident it’s what you’re looking for.

CD will help you organize and share information efficiently, communicate with co-workers/colleagues (internal/external) and collaborate on projects.

Please check it out when you have a moment. http://www.centraldesktop.com

Good Luck!

Best, Tia

Yambi Messaging and Collaboration is actually the only platform in the world specially meant for the consumer and small businesses worldwide.

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You will agree that the best place to host your data remains your local hard drive. However, as you are not desk-bound at all times, the need exists to access these data remotely or to push them automatically to your mobile device. This has proved throughout the years almost an impossible mission, unless you can afford costly servers like Exchange, Domino etc. But because these servers don’t work on broadband, – despite the fact that broadband has become the preferred internet connection worldwide, – you have to acquire expensive dedicated networks as well.

It is a fact that the majority of Internet users cannot afford this solution. In order to remotely access their data, they are forced to host them on the web only (without offline options), often with companies they can’t completely trust. But believe me, not all data are meant to be hosted by a third party.

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@Michael – I’ll check out HyperOffice.

@jc – our advisors are CTOs and CIOs of large companies. They want ease of use and are used to ineracting with us via email. I just can’t see sending them a raw file format of any sort and getting a better collaboration with them.

@Adam – thanks, I’d be curious to see the public beta.

http://www.octabox.com might be exactly what you are looking for, right now it is still in private beta, but soon we’re releasing the public beta.

Octabox is intended to be a platform for small businesses and professionals individuals, from project management integrated with personal notes, mind mapping, a CRM module and several other modules.

You could send them the raw .box file that contains the organized information. Or you could use the pdf builder, one menu click, and you get a fully bookmarked pdf file.

You may also check our presentation at Proto.in at: http://www.mundialco.com/unifiedmessaging/2008/01/22/yambi-presentation-at-protoin-08/

The story continues at http://www.yambi.com

If you get a chance, please check out “Study Hall” app on Facebook. Soon it will be available on all other open social social networks. It is a very easy to use and collaborative tool – it has an education focus, but can be used for all applications. Thanks.

Thanks for mentioning GroupSwim. We are in full agreement with you that email must be a component of any effective collaboration tool or strategy. It is the lowest common denominator and has be part of the solution. We’ve also blogged on this topic if you want to check it out. Thanks.

http://blog.groupswim.com/