Thu 21 Sep 2006
There are a plethora of wonderful tools on the web that I would like to be taking advantage of. The problem is, I haven’t been able to come up with good guidelines on when to use what. For example, I really like 37 Signals’ tools. Specifically, Writely is also pretty good. The latter is geared more towards word processing while the former seems better for informal sharing of information. But that only provides a clear case for Writely when I want to do word processing online (which is not often). Then there is Basecamp, a great easy to use project planning tool. It is not nearly as sophisticated as MS project, but that is its core strength. On the other hand, my whole company uses Project so to use Basecamp, I need an easy way to export a plan into some format that can be imported into Project. We also use Sharepoint a lot, but in a crippled fashion. They is something like a 3G limit for each Sharepoint (making it near useless as a document repository) and we only allow people to use the Sharepoint Services functions (basically folder management). That makes me want to use a Wiki and/or Backpack.
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