Cool Tools: Basecamp
Whenever you are doing collaborative work, it is important that every player communicates with each other. To do that, you can simply email each other. Or you can use Basecamp.
Basecamp has improving communications between team members, making it easier to collaborate on a single project. Easy to setup, simple to use and very flexible, Basecamp streamlines the way the team works together.
To start using Basecamp, you just need to sign-up for an account which can be paid or free. There is no time limit on the free plan and you can use it for free as long as you’d like. You will then be provided your own “space” to work on. Once you have an account, it’s time to start on a project.
With the free plan, you get to have 1 active project going only. For the subscription, you can have more than 1 project, depending on what plan you paid for. Video tutorials teaching you how to get going with Basecamp is available to get you started. Creating entries in its many tabs is just a point and click affair. With Basecamp, collaboration just became a whole lot simpler.
Basecamp works on most browsers. Click here to go to the website.
Basecamp is a good communication tool, but not more. I failed to manage real projects in it and report them to my boss. Now I found a more comprehensive tool for what I wanted to do at http://www.wrike.com. This tool has Gantt charts, customizible reports and also due dates for tasks, which is very important when managing a project.
Similar case for us. We found Intervals http://myintervals.com, which is a great task manager and time tracking tool. It has various ways to setting up your projects but most importantly all tasks have due dates and severity of priority so we can organize and streamline our projects very easily without missing important steps of the process. It also has a number of reports, timesheets, documents upload etc.