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Matt Kramer12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online
February 28th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 22 Comments
Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can choose are free. In this post, I’ll round up several examples that you can count on.
Although it’s still technically a beta product, I’ve had no problems using FolderShare, a Microsoft Windows Live service, to share files and folders securely with colleagues. FolderShare was acquired by Microsoft and is a full-featured application. The best aspect of it is that it lets you and colleagues share files and folders on a cross-platform basis. I’ve used it extensively to keep Windows and Mac systems in synch.
Especially if you’re part of a virtual workgroup and need to keep everybody’s schedule firmed up, Google Calendar is the way to go. If you don’t yet use it, you can send out easy e-mail invitations for colleagues to share calendars with you, and Plaxo is good to look into if you want to synch your calendars with multiple other types of calendars.
It’s often very useful for web workers who share things to be able to control each other’s computers. See my post on numerous ways to do this for free.
Meetings—they never seem to go away. The good news is that online meetings can be much more efficient than real-world ones, especially if you can save some travel time. For online meetings, Yugma and Yuguu are good choices, as described here.
Recently, an online workgroup I’m in standardized on Gubb to share lists with each other. You can share to-do lists, notes on things you plan to post online, and much more. It’s easy to add and delete list items and quick to log in and log out. Gubb shoots for simplicity, not complexity.
Sharing online organizers can make a lot of sense for workroups. Consider Zoho Planner for this job. In addition to standard organizer features, you c -
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Chris DukeApplications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can
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Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can choose are free. In this post, I’ll round up several examples that you can count on.
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Mark Freund** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues
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