Collaboration Weeks - WIN 3x CollabTRAK Professional Edition

Knowtebook — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:43:49 +0000

It is time for an update to our previous posts about web-based collaboration. Our goal is to get an overview about your own collaboration working. Thats why we would like to open up a stage for you and your habits, hints and useful experience. And the best: you can win a license for CollabTRAK Professional Edition, a flexible, easy to use web-based project tracker for web worker and their clients.

How to win 1 of 3 CollabTRAK Pro?

All you have to do is to write a guestpost about collaboration. You can write about everything you like. If you are new to this you may write a round-up for example. You can write about your business, where you like to use collaboration tools. Tell us your experiences, the benefits or whatever you want. You can include statistics or screenshots as long as you provide the source. By the time we will promote you on Knowtebook and publish your guestpost. If you have a question, please leave a comment.

How to send in?

It is really easy to join! Send your writings to sebastian AT knowtebook DOT com till 21th of september 2008. If you want to make sure we got it, leave a comment. Please send files in .PDF and .DOC format and make sure pictures will have a width of at least 500px. Among all submissions there will choosen the best 3 posts and awarded with a license for CollabTRAK Pro Edition.

What is CollabTRAK?

Whether you are designer, programmer, webmaster, planer or even a client, there will be a point in medium and larger project, when it is time to make sure that everything what was said is documented and available to others. It will save you a lot of time, stress and finally money. Believe us!

CollabTRAK tracks your project in all belongings. You can share files, make notes, chat with others, schedule meetings and manage your data. There is also a free version of CollabTRAK available, but the professional edition makes it possible to customize everything according to your needs and insert your own brand, so your client won’t see the third party.

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20 web-based business collaboration tools that lets make you breathless

Knowtebook — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:24:52 +0000

+6 new added!

8th of April 2010: officemedium added

Collaboration is a structured, recursive process where two or more people work together toward a common goal — typically an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature — by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. So why would i use such a “collab…” thing?

Reasons to use collaboration tools:

Essay Writing
Presentation Notes
Cooking Recipes
Organising your ideas
Managing your Todos & Tasks
… and anything else you wish to keep track of

List updated on

28th may 2008: added Sosius
4th august 2008: added CollabTRAK
5th august 2008: added Spicebird
8th august 2008: added PBWiki, updated CollabTRAK
1st september 2008: added Homecourt

Most of them are free to use or low-cost collaboration tools. There are ranges from small monthly payments like at Basecamp to unique payments for activeCollab. Almost all of them come with different themes and languages.

To-Do lists and share

Loose Stitch

Lets you crate and share outliner documents, brainstorm ideas and call friends to get feedback and changes.

Ta-da Lists

An easy to-do list tool for everything you need to keep track of.

Professionell Project Management

Spicebird

Spicebird is your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility.

PBWiki

Create your own wiki in minutes!

Sosius

Sosius is a free online workspace, accessible from any PC or Mac, that lets you create and collaborate. No software to buy and set up. Powerful and flexible, yet easy to use.

Basecamp

is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals. It lets make you to-do lits, share files, track time and schedule milestones, but lacks in creating big documents and export. There are many plugins to extend it like basecode or quickcamp.

Redmine

Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its features are milestones, calenders, boards, wikis, document sharing, creating documents, ticket systems, activity histor, charts and more. Unfortunately there is no screenshot of it.

activeCollab

It was started as a basecamp clone and offers now a lot more feature and different pricings. An older version (0.7.x) is still available as open source.

ProjectPier

is the the continuing development of the older activeCollab version. It is totally free and has really good feature, but misses two masterpieces: creating documents and versioning.

Achievo

Achievo is an open source flexible web-based resource management tool that is suitable for any medium sized company that needs to keep track of its resources, projects, clients, contacts, planning and daily scheduling. Achievo’s core is available in more than 20 languages.

Mindquarry DO

An Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work.

SpringLoops

Allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely concentrated on results, not on lost changes or overwritten files. You get rapid collaboration in protected space. It comes with a basecamp integration, live preview.

Clocking IT

ClockingIT is a free to use hosted application (written in Ruby on Rails), keeping track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them. It features time tracking & reports, milestones & due dates, tagging & search, timeline & activity log, notifications, wiki ans has no restrictions or limits.

More tools:

Thinkature - Real-time collaboration for the web.
Zoho -Ultimative free suite for any kind of web-based working!
StreberPM - a free wiki driven project management tool written in php5.
Beanstalk - Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy to setup, browse, and track Subversion. Beanstalk has built-in integration with tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, Campfire and more.
dotProject - is open source pm tool which comes with handy features like gantt-charts
Versionshelf - secure web-based subversion hosting.
goplan - Another pm tool like basecamp and activeCollab

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