Posts Tagged ‘communication’
The internet today opens lots of new ways to collaborate online. It doesn’t matter if you are thousands of kilometers apart, you can work together as if you were on the same computer.
You can work together in real-time, letting the other user see what you are doing as you do it. This makes it possible for small companies or freelancers to present very professional business cases to clients. It also makes it possible to to be working on the same project as your co-worker.
Some of these sites are 100% free, and some offer very reasonable rates.
- Airset gives you a personal cloud computer. That is a virtual computer in the clouds. It is your personal backup storage, data hub across all of your devices, and your personal web server. It is basically web storage, data hub, and a publishing device. Free with ads up to 1 GB, or USD 3 per month.
- BackPackIt is an intranet for your business. Store, share, discuss, and archive everything for your team. You can add any combination of notes, to-dos, files, photos, and dividers to a page. Pages can be used to organize, share, and discuss anything. USD 24 for up to 6 six users, next plans 49, 99 and 149 per month.
- BasecampHQ basically is an all-in-one utility to handle everything to do with projects – billing, accounts, files, time tracking etc. Costs USD 24 for up to 15 projects, next plans 49, 99 and 149 per month.
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Tags: cloud computing, collaboration, communication, group, presentation, sharing
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Chat can be good to have on your website, if you want to give people a way to contact you online. There are different approaches to chat functionality form the vendors below, and obviously different pricing. Some are even free, if you only need one operator (yourself), and have only a limited number of chats per month.
- Paltalk Free voice and video chat with up to 10 people – include your AIM, Y! and ICQ pals. Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging & Video Chat.
- Adobe Connect has screen sharing, chat, notes, audio, and video to conduct meetings online. Free for up to 3 people.
- Oggchat incorporates a customizable chat window for your website but routes all live chats directly to your operators’ Gmail accounts. Free version, or USD 10, 20 30 plans.
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Tags: chat, chatrooms, clients, communication
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Blogs are great if you want to publish content, and don’t want to worry too much the technical stuff. Most of them are pretty straightforward, and they are mostly free for the average user. They can be really useful, and many of them can take the place of a regular website. Look through the list here, and find the best one for you. Then start bloggin’!
- Axess is a free service to create web pages. They do not provide image hosting, so you will need to use another service to upload your images.
- Blogger lets you in just a few steps. In a matter of minutes you can start posting text, photos, videos, and more to your blog. Post as often as you want; it’s free. You can have a domain name, like example.com, and they’ll still host your blog.
- Blogspot is exactly the same service a Blogger.com
- Gabbr allows you to read and comment on the latest news across major news sources as well as the blogosphere. Bloggers can submit their blog posts to appear on the front page for others to comment on. Looks like a busy discussionforum, somewhat cluttered.
- Livejournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while Paid accounts receive access to premium features. The USD 19.95 a year price for Paid Accounts is only available with automatic payments. LiveJournal Support is primarily run by volunteers.
- Moveable Type lets you build websites and blogs with Movable Type’s integrated suite of social networking, blogging and content management features.
- Posterous is a really simple service where you can email your contents to the Posterous email, and that way create a webpage with them. Basically, you attach photos, vidoe, mp3’s etc. You can also autopost to other blogs via Posterous.
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Tags: blogging, communication, Creative, hosting
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