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Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:50:33 GMT

we are interested to learn which products do people use to collaborate and/or share design information? (other than email)

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:22:30 GMT

hmmm guessing everyone just uses email then? 😉

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Erich — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:26:10 GMT

Being part of a small firm and not having an FTP site set up I have used YouSendIt which is a web based FTP service (they have a free option!)

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:57:20 GMT

Erich wrote:
Being part of a small firm and not having an FTP site set up I have used YouSendIt which is a web based FTP service (they have a free option!)

ok that makes sense & what do you mainly use to communicate on other parts of the project? eg questions from consultants etc?

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:11:02 GMT

Email, FTP, iDisk and some of my clients have their own systems. Oh, and of course there's GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, Skype etc.

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Link — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:31:09 GMT

We have done some preliminary tests on Basecamp & Campfire, but weren't impressed.

ActiveCollab is looking better (private cloud) but we're not sold yet.

In fact we may have a custom solution coded if an out-of-the-box solution doesn't cut it for us. I'm very surprised there's not more out there actually. And I'd be keen to here of others.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:41:03 GMT

Link wrote:
We have done some preliminary tests on Basecamp & Campfire, but weren't impressed.

ActiveCollab is looking better (private cloud) but we're not sold yet.

yes activecollab looks good, there are a few similar ones out there to. I do quite like basecamp, but think it's more for internal use, rather than getting others involved....

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:25:28 GMT

sdb wrote:
Link wrote:
We have done some preliminary tests on Basecamp & Campfire, but weren't impressed.

ActiveCollab is looking better (private cloud) but we're not sold yet.
yes activecollab looks good, there are a few similar ones out there to. I do quite like basecamp, but think it's more for internal use, rather than getting others involved....

Of course there's always the dark side.

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Erich — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:19:31 GMT

sdb wrote:
ok that makes sense & what do you mainly use to communicate on other parts of the project? eg questions from consultants etc?

Otherwise for us, it is email and a phone call.

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:30:29 GMT

Matthew wrote:

Of course there's always the dark side.

haha yes & autodesk bluestreak. I'll come clean we are working on one that is a mix of them both (hopefully), so good feedback to hear what people currently use & what would help there workflow..

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

owen — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:45:44 GMT

www.aconex.com

Best online project management / collaboration service I have used in AEC.
Its probably expensive but cannot really say as the client/contractor usually pays.

cheers,

os

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:55:02 GMT

sdb wrote:
Link wrote:
We have done some preliminary tests on Basecamp & Campfire, but weren't impressed.

ActiveCollab is looking better (private cloud) but we're not sold yet.
yes activecollab looks good, there are a few similar ones out there to. I do quite like basecamp, but think it's more for internal use, rather than getting others involved....

It's basecamp here - for the past 3 years. Actually we use it specifically to get others involved, and this is particularly important because about 1/2 my projects have clients in other countries. I also have a teaming agreement with an architecture firm in another country.

Admittedly in the early days it took an effort to get the design team to use it, and even then many were not enthusiastic. In time I developed a system for easing people in, primarily through a comprehensive welcome message for new users. Now, with so many more people using facebook and the like it is very easy to get people on board.

No doubt 37signals products promote work 'ideologies' that you may love or hate. I started out somewhere in between but the more I accepted it for what it was (communication focussed, no gantt charts etc) the more useful it became. Now it is invaluable.

A little shameless plug - I did a blog post a while back on project management and collaboration, and despite the title of the post ("...for Mac OS X") the last five products are online so OS agnostic.

Re: Which products do people use to collaborate?

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:02:26 GMT

owen wrote:
www.aconex.com

Best online project management / collaboration service I have used in AEC.
Its probably expensive but cannot really say as the client/contractor usually pays.

cheers,

os

looks great, but sounds pricey