Comments on: Placeless Office Tools

By: cat

cat — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:03:21 +0000

All of my work is online so I find Skype invaluable.

I used to depend on a range of IM and email to communicate, but now I go for Skype whenever possible. Why? Because with all the work I do on the keys, my wrists need a rest. Also, it gets lonely working at times. Hearing a voice makes a difference to the teams I’m working with via the internet.

Tagging for projects has taken a bit leap into what I’m doing now. I tried Diigo and similar, but they are just too slow for me so I’ll stick with del.ic.ious for now.

I also use Basecamp because it has lists and an online word processor similar to writeboard, all in one package.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:53:04 +0000

When one of our writers gets a phone call from the boss lady they usually wish they hadn’t ;)

To keep in touch with our writers around the world – and when one of us is working from home and the other is in the office – we use email and ICQ.

Aaron’s suggestion looks rather useful too.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:00:01 +0000

Bugzilla first and foremost. While some other collaborative internal project development tools are use exclusively to fill the gaps. Oh, and of course email.

Telephone is rarely, if ever, used for any normal part of business. (or am I stating the obvious?)

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:29:17 +0000

I like to do most things by hand, if I do any business related stuff.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:06:49 +0000

I use writeboard ( http://www.writeboard.com ) for collaboration. It’s quick and easy.

By: Isabella

Isabella — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:34:49 +0000

I like Diigo. It allows you to not only do the tag & bookmark thing, but also to highlight parts of a page, comment directly on the website, email it to friends / family / coworkers / etc, and you can even “copy” your bookmarks to other services, like del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl, and RawSugar.

I absolutely love this tool because I can bring up new people to the team quickly by just pointing my Diigo file. Since my newest employee is completely new to IM, I get to point him to my “stash” and watch him oooh and ahh…