Jan
25
Top 60 Collaborative Tools for Groups
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With businesses and families spread out more and more, we’ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
Business Productivity
37Signals.com – Maker of collaboration tools including Basecamp (others listed below).
8apps.com – A mixture of social network and productivity applications.
BlueTie.com – Online collaboration directed towards small and medium sized businesses.
Businessitonline.com – Centralized cash flow, documents, calendars and more for a team or small business.
CentralDesktop.com – A full work suite for project teams including spreadsheets, file sharing, calendar and more.
Colligo.com – Allows you to work on projects off-line and then sync them when you can login.
ConceptShare.com – Share concept designs and allow invited workers to mark-up, comment, and give feedback.
Confluence – An enterprise-class wiki with features such as PDF exporting.
ContactOffice.com – Allows groups to share documents, calandars, contacts, and files. They can then access them from a number of different mobile devices.
Coventi.com – Upload your documents, share, and allow others to highlight portions or edit.
Copperproject.com – Share projects, tasks, documents and timelines with your entire team.
CrossLoop.com – Allows two computers to connect securely to share their desktops for collaborative work and transfer of files.
Eloops.com – Share files, calenders, projects, and then create RSS feeds to share your public ones.
Foldera.com – Allows for communication over projects, and centralizes work to make sure version is always current.
Glide – Facilitates group meetings to review projects together.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets – From the behemoth known as Google, collaborative documents and spreadsheets.
GroupSharp.com – Allows you to share lists, databases, file sharing, and wikis for your team.
Huddle.net – Designed for collaborative work in the fields of PR, advertising, marketing, design and more.
Instacoll.com – Allows real-time sharing of documents to work on them with colleagues.
Joyent.com – Get collaborative software and backup services in one package.
Longjump.com – Offers standard collaboration, but also the ability to build new applications for your team to use and even market.
Mindquarry.com – Work on projects online or off-line, then synchronize as soon as you are back.
Near-Time.net – Build wikis, blogs,create documents for your team to work on, and have the ability to sell your content and expertise.
Nexo.com – Share files and notes amongst your company, or even with other companies you invite.
Octopz.com – Allows your team to work a wide range of documents including video, audio, and flash animations.
OpenTeams.com – Allows your team to create cPages of your project.
QuickBase.com – A collaborative tool from Intuit, the makers of Quicken.
PlanHQ.com – Specifically for groups working on business plans.
ProjectSpaces.com – Share and work on documents, notify team members via RSS and email.
Solodox.com – Create, access, edit, share, and collaborate on documents & projects.
TeamWorkLive.com – Track tasks, centralize communication, share documents and files, then collaborate with clients and remote teams.
TheOpenDoc.com – Create multiple workspaces with multiple documents, then share them for group editing.
Thinkature.com – Collaborative workspace with voice chat and numerous drawing tools.
Tracbac.com – Workspace for your group that features versioning, IM, VoIP ad more.
Uhroo.com – Focuses on working on goals, estimates, client feedback and more.
Vyew.com – Your team can work on a project and then publish it directly to where you choose on the web.
WebOffice.com – Work on documents and more with live web meetings.
Wrike.com – Project management that allows you to assign tasks and then let people work in teams on them.
Writewith.com – Create documents and invite others to edit and chat while you do so.
Yugma.com – A catch-all collaboration site for files, tech support, presentations and more.
Zimbra.com – Email service with collaboration tools.
Zoho.com – Create documents and grant permissions for others to work on an entire page or just one portion or object.
Creative Collaboration
Kalabo.net – Site for musicians to collaborate on compositions together.
Freepository.com – Specifically for computer program development and allows storage of code to be worked on from anywhere.
Glypho.com – Site for group writing of fictional stories.
Novlet.com – Collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language.
WebBrush – Focuses more on graphical sharing and includes drawing tools.
Writeboard.com – From 37signals, perfect for collaborative writing, journalists, bloggers and more.
WriteMaps.com – Designed specifically for creating and sharing sitemaps amongst web teams.
Family and Social Collaboration
Cozi.com – Helps families organize and communicate in a web based method.
Famundo.com – Built for families or small groups to organize and share contacts, calendars, and projects.
Grouptivity.com – Uses email to start a group discussion on any subject of your choice.
LooseStitch.com – Create to do lists and share them with whomever you choose.
Mecanbe.com – Post your goals in life, get suggestions on how to achieve them.
Stixy.com – Share documents, photos, to do lists and more with family and friends.
Wamily – For teams, families, clubs and everything in-between. Share photos, run a wiki, have conversations.
Mindmapping
Bubbl.us -Create and share your mind map with your team, also embed in to your website or blog.
Comapping.com – Mind mapping for everyone from students working together to project management.
Gliffy.com – Draw & share mind mapping diagrams.
Kayuda.com – Mind mapping for individuals or organizations.
Mind42.com – Mind mapping for one, or multiple users.
Mindomo.com – Has both free and premium accounts for mind mapping.
Mindmeister.com – A mind mapping tool you can share with an unlimited number of simultaneous users. (via)