One of the biggest problems with project management software is that it can be difficult to get everybody using it in the same way. Podio is a free web app that makes managing your projects a little less like slogging through pages of updates and more like updating Facebook.
You can do a lot to make social network usage more secure, but businesses often still prefer to collaborate using an in-house social network that isn’t widely accessible. How can you make such a project succeed?
There are plenty of free web services that allow you to easily share your desktop with others, but new webapp Screenleap simplifies screen sharing even further. Screenleap allows you to share your desktop with as many people as you choose, without signing up for an account, downloading and installing anything, and does it all for free.
iOS: To-do apps aren’t difficult to come by on on the iPhone, but Get Tofu’s collaborative elements, push notifications and mission structure makes it a bit more fun to use than the average to-do app.
When Google Docs added real-time collaboration features to Google Docs for Android last week, we were immediately struck by something: the collaboration options were rather reminiscent of the late, lamented Google Wave. Is this how Wave has survived in the wider world?
The latest update to the Android version of Google Docs adds what might be the best feature of all: collaborative editing. While you’ve always been able to edit a document along with many other people in the web app, now Android users can join in via the native app on their phones or tablets.
MeetingBurner is a new video conferencing service that offers video, voice and web conferencing with all of the features you would expect from a more expensive commercial service for free. If you host small meetings or work at an organisation where there’s no company-sponsored video conferencing solution and no budget to buy accounts to one, MeetingBurner is worth a look.
Wunderkit, built by the same people behind Wunderlist, one of our favourite to-do list apps, is a new web-based to-do manager. It has been in private beta for a while, but just opened its doors to the public. Users can create multiple workspaces for different projects, and even invite the people working on those projects with them to collaborate on them in Wunderkit so everyone’s on the same page.
iOOS: Do is an app that’s designed to not only manage your tasks but the tasks of an entire team. Everyone working on a given project shares tasks with one another, keeping the entire team up to date on the project’s status.
Tumblecloud is a new platform for piecing together music, videos, photos and websites into dynamic slideshows that you can share with others. Currently in beta, the free web app site can be used for “collaborative digital storytelling”, as the founders describe it, for business or personal purposes.