Comments on: 5 apps to improve productivity and collaboration

By: nicreatives

nicreatives — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:25:34 +0000

worth taking 5mins to look at these…
http://t.co/qbMJGUdU

By: Brian Golding

Brian Golding — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:17:07 +0000

Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) really makes my life much easier. It’s equally good for file storing and file sharing. As for team collaboration, we rely on Wrike (http://www.wrike.com). It’s easy-to-use and has all important project management and collaboration features.

By: Beata Davidson

Beata Davidson — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:44:21 +0000

Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) makes my life so much easier. It is equally good for file storing and file sharing. As for team collaboration, we rely on Wrike (http://www.wrike.com/) as it is easy-to-use and has all project management and collaboration features that we need in our everyday work.

By: David M

David M — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:20:18 +0000

Awesome list for personal use. FYI as a business (we’re on the smaller end, there’s five of us) we were trying to manage all of what we do through separate apps as well, including a toDo app, contact lists, calendar, and some other things.

The problem was this resulted in a huge workflow block – things were really inefficient jumping between 3+ apps that didn’t integrate, just to get simple tasks done. If you’re in a similar position, I recommend getting a consolidated app. We use one that integrates everything we need into one system called WORKetc. It puts CRM (contact mgmt, sales etc), project management (toDos, scheduling, time tracking, projects) and billing into one web app, so if you run a smaller business these are things you likely need to manage as well. It’s made a huge difference for us!

By: Slavba

Slavba — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:16:25 +0000

iCalledU is another collaboration tool for organizations (http://www.icalledu.com). It allows managing all customers calls in one place.

By: CommunicationTracker

CommunicationTracker — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:42:18 +0000

One of the good points that is coming out of this post is that the collaboration needs of an organization are simple, and they are best addressed with easy-to-use tools. Wouldn’t it be even better if the needs are met with one easy-to-use tool? Our thoughts on this topic are here: http://blog.communication-tracker.com/what-do-corporates-need-for-managing-communication.html

By: Sylvan Media Group

Sylvan Media Group — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:44:24 +0000

Basecamp is a great project management platform even though there are clear limitations to the site. Would you consider the platform an app?

By: Sylvan Media Group

Sylvan Media Group — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:43:07 +0000

I think it’s interesting that you say “social networking has become the distraction of late”, could you go into more detail about what you mean.

I think there are several different platforms that do each of these well. For example, Topsy or Google Alerts (free platforms) are great for checking your social media presence and goes beyond the tweet unlike twilert

I do think GroupZap is pretty cool. How long have you been using these platforms?

Michael

By: n.t.

n.t. — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:45:43 +0000

Isn’t Let’s Crate kinda just like Dropbox?

By: Chris Romero

Chris Romero — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:01:34 +0000

Lucid Chart is a great tool for creating and sharing nice looking pie charts and graphs. Basecamphq.com and 37signals.com have a lot of great tools as well.