The 21st century workforce is highly professional people who are the main asset of the organization. For working efficiently, they need to collaborate and this is why multiple collaboration tools have appeared nowadays. They are mostly based on Web 2.0 and are aimed at helping to orchestrate team work, providing more transparency and contributing to better cooperation.
I have listed here tolls that I can personally recommend. Some of them are free. As they are all composed for different goals, you can pick up one or too designed the most closely to your needs. To become a more social and collaborative organization, try out those process workflow software. I would recommend to make it in small team groups to find out which one better suits you.
1. Project management via mobile with DeskAway
Project organizing, managing, sharing and tracking is available now in a single web based project collaboration solution, DeskAway. To control the tasks performance you don’t have to stay all the time at your computer as the mobile version lets you go in the field and stay in touch with your team at the same time. You can get a 30% discount for a nonprofit for all pricing plans and a 30-day free trial is for everyone.
2. Online collaboration for brainstorming with Mindmeister
How can be group projects and presentations easily made? How to collaborate on them to make them quickly and in a good way? Use Mindmeister! A version for 3 mind maps (they look like diagrams) is free.
3. Transferring videos and photos made easy with Dropbox
Using email for transferring files and photos is not useful at all. Just take an example of a bunch of photos you have to share with everyone after a party or a family meeting. You’re going to have to write twenty emails to send them all. Not anymore. You can use YouSendIt, a resource for file sharing that enables you to send 2 gigabytes having just the email of the addressee. Or take a look at Dropbox that gives you 2 gigabytes of free space that can be used according to your wish at any time. As a cloud solution, it can be used in a desktop or mobile version.
4. Social media dashboard shared with Hootsuite
There are three possible solutions for creating a social media dashboard that I would suggest: Hootsuite, Seesmic and Tweetdeck. The two first are web-based and the last one is a desktop solution. Mentions monitoring, messages sending, task assignment, results tracking and cross-post to Facebook, Foursqare and WordPress enhance your social media presence.
5. Picnik and online photo editing
Photoshop is a rather expensive solution and you need to learn how to use it. Picnik enables you to edit your photos online, cropping and resizing: any quick small operations that you wouldn’t want to pay a huge amount of money for. It is free and you work in your browser window so the photos get worked out quickly.
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