Comments on: Socialtext's New Features Help Build Tighter Teams

By: Socialtext Brings Enterprise-Level Software to the Masses

Socialtext Brings Enterprise-Level Software to the Masses — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:01:57 +0000

[...] Desktop, an Adobe Air desktop application that provides monitoring and access to Socialtext without having to constantly visit the Socialtext web site. ( I wrote about Signals and Desktop previously.) [...]

By: Aliza Sherman

Aliza Sherman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:08:05 +0000

Tony – When one has numerous fixed business costs and set budgets, there is an enormous difference between $28/month and $180/month. You pull it apart as $4/week but the reality is that it is over $150 extra per month. When every dollar must be justified AND covered while still trying to maintain profitability, every extra bit can be a big leap for a small startup.

Also, my recent move to rural Alaska increased my basic Internet access costs from $69 to $250+/month. I’m not a math qhiz, but I do know when I need to hold off on expenses to maintain a positive cashflow.

By: Tony Wright

Tony Wright — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:03:58 +0000

“Sadly, this is out of my company’s budget at this time. We have 12 people on our virtual team who could really benefit from Socialtext, but we can’t justify $180/month.”

I don’t understand. If you have 12 people, they probably cost you thousands of dollars per month. Each. If they could really benefit from it as you say, isn’t about $4/week per employee utterly negligible?

If the benefit of SocialText is REAL (i.e. it saves time, reduces errors, makes projects go faster, etc) it seems like a no-brainer. If it’d just make people feel connected, maybe not.