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Archive for the ‘Collaboration tools’ Category

January 17th, 2007

You can get there from here with remote connection software

Sometimes you just can’t be there.  Sometimes you aren’t at home and you have one of those "oh no" moments.  You forgot something.  A document, a link, an address.  Or you just want to get home and finish up work stuff.  That’s where remote access software comes in.  EdTechPost relies on Hamachi and Unyte, LifeHacker […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

January 16th, 2007

Scrybe gets more polished with ThoughtPad

Although I still don’t have an invite into Scrybe, I still watch for it in the news.  DownloadSquad reports that Scrybe has added a new feature to their already powerful lineup of tools.

In Scrybe there is a Planner pane which contains your calendar and tasks, and now the ThoughtPad pane which contains web clippings, or […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

January 16th, 2007

Web Workers toolkit, is it enough?

Another good post from WebWorkerDaily.  They list the core tools for distance collaboration.

Email
Phone
Text chat
VOIP
Web Conferencing
Document collaboration
Group online document sharing
Wiki
Shared calendars
Message forums
video chat

No doubt that these are extremely important.  I use all of them, except for wikis.  No doubt as well that video and web conferencing has made use strides since I first tried them in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

January 2nd, 2007

My Idea Board

I am fortunate that I have a large white board where I work that I can use for…whatever. At the end of 2006, I was staring at the white board, noting how much stuff was still showing up on the board even after being erased.
So I got out the cleaning spray and cleaned off all […]

By Scot Herrick -- 1 comment

November 24th, 2006

New ad-ons for Basecamp released

Okay this might be old news, but hey it’s still good news.  It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Basecamp.  Recently Basecamp announced a slew of new tools that use the Basecamp API.  I’ve checked out the list, but haven’t tried them out yet.  However, some of these look like awesome ad-ons for […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

November 21st, 2006

Sign up fast for the OnTime 2007 beta!

I caught the Scoble Show this morning where Robert interviewed the CEO of Axosoft (makers on OnTime bug tracking software).  OnTime was developed for developers by developers to help them roll out software on time (and assumedly on budget and with fewer bugs).  The background behind the app is interesting.  Robert and Hamid talk about […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

November 13th, 2006

What do us pimps use to work better? Here’s the list

Ever wonder what folks like us use day to day?  E-mail, PIM, RSS, web browser …  I posed this question to my fellow PYW writers and this is what I got back.
Scot:

E-mail - work: Outlook. Home: Yahoo on my domain name
PIM - Treo 650 (Palm)
Desktop search - None. Tried two and didn’t like either one
web […]

By Tris Hussey -- 12 comments

November 13th, 2006

Lifehacker’s Essentials for the “placeless office” … I can do a few better

I’ve been a teleworker for almost seven years now, so I know the placeless office.  Heck I am the placeless office.  Lifehacker got some serious Blogosphere love last week for their "Essential tools for the placeless office" post.  Their recommendations are good, but they’ve left out some of my favs and some serious tricks of […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

November 1st, 2006

Put your wiki in your pocket

Over on That Damn PC (man I love that title), Mary gives a great work pimp … put a wiki in your pocket!  Using a flash drive (even those tiny 32 meg ones are plenty) and TiddlyWiki you can have a portable, secure wiki for all your notes and thoughts … on the go!  TiddlyWiki […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

October 31st, 2006

A little over 24 hours to win a copy of MindManager

Over at What’s the Next Action they are having a contest to see who can create the coolest, most colourful mindmap with MindManager, and there are five copies MindManager up for grabs!  The contest closes Nov 1 at 7 PM ET.  What are you waiting for, download MindManager (21-day trial don’t you know) and get […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments