Collaboration — Collaboration

ccLoop wants to improve email with smart mailing lists

By Simon Mackie Jul. 18, 2011, 5:04am PT Comments Off

ccLoop wants to improve email by making it into a better and more streamlined communication tool. It effectively offers a business-focused take on the familiar kind of mailing list functionality provided by the likes of Google Groups and Yahoo Groups. Read More »

Communication app Convos shutting down: What are the alternatives?

By Charles Hamilton Jun. 13, 2011, 1:51am PT 2 Comments

Convos, the group communication tool, has notified its customers by email that it will be shutting down as of June 30, 2011. Organizations that have been using Convos have several alternatives. If you don’t need a full project management solution, here are some options to consider. Read More »

Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock

By Dawn Foster May. 14, 2010, 11:00am PT 9 Comments

Not everyone that we need to work with wants to have to learn a new tool in order to collaborate with us online. Sometimes simple “old school” tools, like IRC and mailing lists, can work just as well as, if not better than, the new tools. Read More »

Google Apps Adds Groups

By Charles Hamilton Dec. 9, 2009, 7:00am PT Comments Off

Google Apps, the suite of productivity applications that’s a favorite of WWD, has had Groups, a discussion group application, added to its array of tools. In addition to providing email using your own domain, Google Apps offers a number of ways for… Read More »

Tgethr: Simple Group Emailing

By Charles Hamilton Sep. 29, 2009, 11:00am PT Comments Off

Tgethr aspires to replace listservs, Google Groups and Yahoo Groups as a way of managing email groups. It scores over Convos (which I recently wrote about) with its very easy setup, useful help and simple web interface, although it doesn’t have some of… Read More »