In last week’s article, I talked about the advantages and disadvantages of working from home. One of the main issues with online or remote work is the additional difficulty of communicating and staying “connected” to your team and your company. To address these challenges, an endless number of online collaboration tools have emerged on the market that can help you maintain good communication with your team. Today’s article is dedicated to commenting on some of the best options for online collaboration tools, let’s do it:
Slack
One of the most powerful and well-known tools for collaborating online with your team. Slack allows the creation of public chat rooms, sending private messages or group conversations, and integration with other collaboration tools such as Trello. You can see it in action in the following introductory video:
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Trello
A project management and collaboration tool that was launched in 2011 and after great success was acquired by the multinational Atlassian. Trello will help you stay connected and informed, as well as define and organize priorities for tasks, etc. One of Trello’s main advantages is its intuitive interface and easy learning curve. You can see a summary of its main features in this video: This tool is very useful for entrepreneurs, if you want an all-in-one solution to organize/assign tasks, alerts, document reviews, chats, etc. Very useful for keeping all project-related information in a single online repository, easily accessible and with a pleasant and intuitive interface. Although there are many tools (such as Gsuite, Dropbox, Office365, etc.) that allow you to perform most tasks online, Basecamp integrates the main features of these into a single tool. You can learn more about how Basecamp works in the following video: These 3 are my favorite collaboration tools, but obviously, there are many others on the market that may be more or less suitable depending on your specific needs. For example, if you need video conferencing tools, some of the most used are: Skype, GoToMeeting, Webex, Hangouts or where (formerly Appear.in). Do you know or use any other collaborative tools not mentioned? What is your favorite tool for online collaboration? As always, your comments are welcome! Alejandro Pérez, PMP, PMI ACP Read this study in addition: intronaut.net
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