Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Ron Bertino
I don’t know about you, but I certainly find that trying to arrange meetings with a bunch of people at the same time (especially if it includes customers where you don’t have access to their calendar info) can be challenging.
You typically end up having 4 to 10 emails flying back and forth (not to mention phone calls) trying to find a day/time that will work for everyone.
Here are three free web services which can help you fix that problem.
TimeBridge
ScheduleOnce
Tungle
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Ron Bertino
Microsoft Office Groove is a one of the programs from the Office suite that not many people know about.
Groove is a useful application that allows you to create a workspace for collaborating with other team members.
The thing that differentiates Groove from other online project management solutions (which I’ll blog about in the near future), is that instead of hosting the workspace on a web site, Groove stores the workspace content on your local workstation and then replicates that workspace content to the workstations of the other workspace team members. This is known as peer-to-peer technology.
You can download a free trial of Microsoft Office Groove and have a play with it, but if you decide that you want to use it, then you’ll have to whip out that credit card and say goodbye to $229 if you buy it from the Microsoft web site, or $189 if you buy it from Amazon.
I recently came across a freeware alternative which works with the same peer-to-peer replication model, allows you to create unlimited workspaces, create notes, discussions, links, tasks, and add attachments. It also allows you to do basic instant messaging between other workspace members who are currently online.
The product is called Callanos Workspace, and is worth taking a look at for the creation of simple collaboration workspaces.
Here’s a link to a visual tour of the product.
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