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Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups
July 22, 2007 - 5:13 am PDT - by Sean P. Aune 58 Comments
With businesses and families spread out more and more, we’ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
Business Productivity
37Signals.com - Maker of collaboration tools including Basecamp (others listed below).
8apps.com - A mixture of social network and productivity applications.
BlueTie.com - Online collaboration directed towards small and medium sized businesses.
Businessitonline.com - Centralized cash flow, documents, calendars and more for a team or small business.
CentralDesktop.com - A full work suite for project teams including spreadsheets, file sharing, calendar and more.
Colligo.com - Allows you to work on projects off-line and then sync them when you can login.
ConceptShare.com - Share concept designs and allow invited workers to mark-up, comment, and give feedback.
Confluence - An enterprise-class wiki with features such as PDF exporting.
ContactOffice.com - Allows groups to share documents, calandars, contacts, and files. They can then access them from a number of different mobile devices.
Coventi.com - Upload your documents, share, and allow others to highlight portions or edit.
Copperproject.com - Share projects, tasks, documents and timelines with your entire team.
CrossLoop.com - Allows two computers to connect securely to share their desktops for collaborative work and transfer of files.
Eloops.com - Share files, calenders, projects, and then create RSS feeds to share your public ones.
Foldera.com - Allows for communication over projects, and centralizes work to make sure version is always current.
Glide - Facilitates group meetings to review projects together.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets - From the behemoth known as Google, collaborative documents and spreadsheets.
GroupSharp.com - Allows you to share lists, databases, file sharing, and wikis for your team.
Huddle.net - Designed for collaborative work in the fields of PR, advertising, marketing, design and more.
Instacoll.com - Allows real-time sharing of documents to work on them with colleagues.
Joyent.com - Get collaborative software and backup services in one package.
Longjump.com - Offers standard collaboration, but also the ability to build new applications for your team to use and even market.
Mindquarry.com - Work on projects online or off-line, then synchronize as soon as you are back.
Near-Time.net - Build wikis, blogs,create documents for your team to work on, and have the ability to sell your content and expertise.
Nexo.com - Share files and notes amongst your company, or even with other companies you invite.
Octopz.com - Allows your team to work a wide range of documents including video, audio, and flash animations.
OpenTeams.com - Allows your team to create cPages of your project.
QuickBase.com - A collaborative tool from Intuit, the makers of Quicken.
PlanHQ.com - Specifically for groups working on business plans.
ProjectSpaces.com - Share and work on documents, notify team members via RSS and email.
Solodox.com - Create, access, edit, share, and collaborate on documents & projects.
TeamWorkLive.com - Track tasks, centralize communication, share documents and files, then collaborate with clients and remote teams.
TheOpenDoc.com - Create multiple workspaces with multiple documents, then share them for group editing.
Thinkature.com - Collaborative workspace with voice chat and numerous drawing tools.
Tracbac.com - Workspace for your group that features versioning, IM, VoIP ad more.
Uhroo.com - Focuses on working on goals, estimates, client feedback and more.
Vyew.com - Your team can work on a project and then publish it directly to where you choose on the web.
WebOffice.com - Work on documents and more with live web meetings.
Wrike.com - Project management that allows you to assign tasks and then let people work in teams on them.
Writewith.com - Create documents and invite others to edit and chat while you do so.
Yugma.com - A catch-all collaboration site for files, tech support, presentations and more.
Zimbra.com - Email service with collaboration tools.
Zoho.com - Create documents and grant permissions for others to work on an entire page or just one portion or object.
Creative Collaboration
Kalabo.net - Site for musicians to collaborate on compositions together.
Freepository.com - Specifically for computer program development and allows storage of code to be worked on from anywhere.
Glypho.com - Site for group writing of fictional stories.
Novlet.com - Collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language.
WebBrush - Focuses more on graphical sharing and includes drawing tools.
Writeboard.com - From 37signals, perfect for collaborative writing, journalists, bloggers and more.
WriteMaps.com - Designed specifically for creating and sharing sitemaps amongst web teams.
Family and Social Collaboration
Cozi.com - Helps families organize and communicate in a web based method.
Famundo.com - Built for families or small groups to organize and share contacts, calendars, and projects.
Grouptivity.com - Uses email to start a group discussion on any subject of your choice.
LooseStitch.com - Create to do lists and share them with whomever you choose.
Mecanbe.com - Post your goals in life, get suggestions on how to achieve them.
Stixy.com - Share documents, photos, to do lists and more with family and friends.
Wamily - For teams, families, clubs and everything in-between. Share photos, run a wiki, have conversations.
Mindmapping
Bubbl.us -Create and share your mind map with your team, also embed in to your website or blog.
Comapping.com - Mind mapping for everyone from students working together to project management.
Gliffy.com - Draw & share mind mapping diagrams.
Kayuda.com - Mind mapping for individuals or organizations.
Mind42.com - Mind mapping for one, or multiple users.
Mindomo.com - Has both free and premium accounts for mind mapping.
Mindmeister.com - A mind mapping tool you can share with an unlimited number of simultaneous users.
See also:
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70+ Tools For Job Hunting 2.0
40+ Firefox Add-ons for High Speed Blogging
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Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources
Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers
14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature
230+ Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services
Online Photography Toolbox: 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources
Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources
Online Productivity Toolbox: 30+ Resources to Get Things Done
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic
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The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools
Wiki Toolbox: 30+ Wiki Tools -
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July 22nd, 2007 at 7:10 am
You’ve got a great list there, and I can add some more browser-based applications that do mind mapping, concept mapping and diagrams:
Mind mapping and similar ……………….
bubble-mind.com Collaborative mind mapping
glinkr.net Concept mapping and mind mapping (shared but not collaborative)
mapul.com Collaborative mind mapping with an organic flavour
touchgraph.com URL mind maps for network visualisation
wikimindmap.org Make mind maps from WikiMedia articles
webofweb.net Collaborative mind mapping
writemaps.com Web-site hierarchical maps
Generic diagramming apps that can do mind maps …………….
cumulatelabs.com/cumulatedraw/ Collaborative diagramming – can draw mind maps and concept maps
flowchart.com Collaborative diagramming – can draw mind maps and concept maps
imaginationcubed.com Collaborative diagramming – can (just about) draw mind maps and concept maps
Then there are outliners, as some prefer this to mind mapping …………….
sproutliner.com Basic on-line outliner that lets you share outlines
thinkfold.com Collaborative on-line outlining application
Regards
Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:41 am
I meant to mention that Gliffy is given here as a mind mapper. Some readers might like to know that it is also a good general-purpose diagramming applications.
Regards
Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:56 am
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July 22nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
Best service, i use more of this for my society and geek blog
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
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July 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
Excellent list!! Two productivity tools that I use everyday and find very useful are: coReap ( http://www.coreap.com ) for group search/research and Kiko ( http://www.kiko.com ) for group calendars.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
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July 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Foldera is spelled wrong. =)
Thanks for this list.
July 22nd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Fixed, thanks.
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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July 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Thanks for the great list and for including Coventi Pages. Could you fix the spelling to Coventi.com? (the link works)
Thanks,
Peter
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 pm
http://www.assembla.com provides free trac and svn for projects with unlimited disk space, we currently have up to 1gb projects. With these tools it’s easy to build an open source/private project and team. Various management tools suck as ticketing and milestones are built in, making managing your distributed team and going through a complete agile software development process easy and manageable.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 pm
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July 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
How about GroupLoop.com for Committee Collaboration?
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:17 pm
You should check out Collaber http://www.collaber.com this tool is basically a free version of Groove which allows everyone to create a workspace and share it with others. The great part is that if you work on a document offline, once you go back online it will synchronize with other group memebers. They also offer databases, tasks, calendars, contacts, links and other tools that work in a similar fashion.
Awesome tool, and the developers are quickly releasing new versions with new features on a weekly basis.
Bill
http://www.designinsidechicago.com
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
you forget Krawler - http://blog.krawlerx.com
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Sean - a pleasant surprise for this small team to be featured in your list.
A BIG thanks from all at CrossLoop!
Mrinal
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
skrbl http://www.skrbl.com is another great collaboration resource with a live online whiteboard where users can type, draw, edit, share files & pictures with others.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 am
Nice work, excellent list… I’m satisfied with some of them, but do you think that they really need improvement? For example, I want to help someone in a project and all I need is a space to write and share. Can someone please recommend me something?
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:26 am
Peter - Fixed the spelling of Coventi, sorry about that.
Mrinal - No problem.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 am
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July 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 am
Maybe you missed the wonderful we+ (”weplus”). It’s a great mix of tools, actually “decorated” with a web2.0 aim on collaboration and sharing feature. I think it’s worth a try.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:48 am
love basecamp the most. no fuss interface.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:08 am
I don’t like basecamp. They are too fancy colors and no improvements in features or possibilities with years. Check other, you will find more that you expect. I’m beta tester of one new project management software, it is very good.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:21 am
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July 23rd, 2007 at 4:34 am
Can you advise me please which is the best for project management and collaboration between colleagues? Thanks a lot. Regards.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 am
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