Collaboration Software
Remember: Social Collaboration Software is
only as good as its strategy, process, usefulness and implementation plan.
Only 3-5 of the BEST!
Collaboration King has used, implemented or tried hundreds of programs. Each category below shows only 3-5 programs the we believe to be the best in their field. Please consult the more comprehensive lists at the bottom by 3rd parties if you have more specific needs.
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Focus on quick Corporate Communication
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Unbeliebly popular- think 'corporate Twitter,' Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: 'What are you working on?'
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Another 'corporate Twitter,' Socialcast is a simple and FREE collaboration tool that helps employees communicate in real time. Integrates with your data, e-mail and other web tools.
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A much more comprehensive solution, Highrise tracks your Leads, Contacts, & Deals. Know who you talked to, what was said, and when to follow-up next. Single dashboard allows visibility into all actions within organization.
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Focus on Small Business Social Network
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Webjam allows any organisation, brand or group to create and encourage online communities with a professional and easy-to-use interface. Publishers: let your audience write about their passions Brands: empower your clients to propagate brand values...
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Ning lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions. Allows organizations to simplify and control their online presence with a unique social network. 1+ million netwoorks.
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Yes, access to 1/4 billion users, Pages allows you to create a presence that looks and behaves like user profiles to connect and engage with your customers and amplify your voice to their friends.
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Focus on Large Corporate Social Network
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Jive Software is the global leader in Social Business Software. Built with the best features of collaboration software, community software, and popular social applications. Jive revolutionizes how work gets done (price as little as $900 per month now)
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Spigit is a purpose built social networking tool used by leading companies to connect their employees, customers and business partners for idea and innovation discovery. Using sophisticated analytics built on advanced mathematics, Spigit takes us beyond..
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Enterprise-Class Online Communities for Consumer Insights and Product Innovation HiveLive® provides enterprise-class online communities to help product owners, brand managers, and market research professionals better connect with and understand their...
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Focus on File Storage and Collaboration
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One of the easiest tools available: Online Workspaces, File Sharing, Folder Layers, Mobile Access, File Commenting, Group Discussions and Online Documents, Updates, Version History, User Management, Security...
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Huddle.net is one of the best tools available! Combinging online collaboration, live conferencing, project management software and document sharing. You can manage projects, teams & relationships. Easily share ideas, information and files securely.
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9.5 million YouSendIt users. Send, receive and track large and important files (2GB) FTP and e-mail attachment replacement solution. Fast and couldn't be easier.
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Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more. Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.
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Focus on Wiki
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One of the most popular everything on the web: A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. You can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated communities..
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Socialtext is far more than a wiki provider: includes personal home pages/dashboards (using the OpenSocial widget standard, ex: Google Gadgets), social networking with profiles, microblogging , blogs... First 50 users free and $6 per user thereafter.
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Although not practical for the inexperienced business, this is exactly the same software that runs one of the top 10 sites on the planet... Wikipedia
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Focus on Content Management Software (Open Source)
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Open Atrium lets you coordinate on projects with the people you work with – whether that’s to facilitate programs around the world for an international organization, to organize the communications outreach for an advocacy campaign, or to run...
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Alfresco reportedly reduces your content management costs by up to 96% compared to proprietary systems like Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint. It’s as simple to use as a shared drive or SharePoint and does not lock you in...
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Arguably the best open source content and community platform: Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
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One of the most popular and easy to use: Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility.
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Focus on Content Management Software (Big Players)
opentext emc documentum, ms sharepoint, opentext, oracle, ibm...-
Although extremely inexpensive to start (as little as $5 a month) SharePoint is by far the most pervasive and popular CMS. Although not liked very much, it is the most extensible, compatible and possibly powerful solution available.
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Originally separate from EMC, Documentum established itself as one of the best available allowing information infrastructure with enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability—and a common set of policies for all content assets across...
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Originally Vignette and our favorite CMS, now a platform which seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, transforming information into knowledge that provides the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth.
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You can meet online, share files, chat, manage projects and network with potential clients, anywhere, anytime. Whether you work remotely, manage remote teams or just need one simple place to bring colleagues together, LotusLive delivers...
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Focus on Virtual Real Time Communication
skype, telepresence, dimdim, adobe-
Beyond just free calling, a bundle of services, everything from virtually free international calls to screen sharing and perfect video conferencing. The largest installed user base is always our first choice for virtual communication!
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Expensive and a little cumbersome, securely share presentations and multimedia right from your desktop, and get feedback from hundreds of participants — all using a web browser and the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, already installed on every computer!
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The best open source (mikogo.com is a close second) web conference system delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet.
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Part of the Cisco Collaboration platform behemoth now, WebEx is still one of the best (gotomeeting.com is a close competitor) apps to combi real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing so everyone sees the same thing while you talk.
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Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without hassle!
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iVu develops first-of-its-kind Participative Event Platform that enables live video participation from a PC, Mac or Linux without any proprietary downloads and seamlessly integrates with most of the popular streaming video and conference solutions.
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Crazy cool! Teleplace™ provides an intuitive environment for distributed teams to communicate and collaborate on multiple applications and documents in real time. Teleplace’s unique vPresence™ technology securely combines VOIP, chat, and video...
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Focus on Blogs
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The Google owned blogging behemoth. Couldn't be easier.
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Most sophisticated than Blogger. Easily one of the best.
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Expensive, but powerful, Squarespace is a fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining a website, blog or portfolio.
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Arguably the best and most extensible blogging platform. Not to be confuzed with wordpress.org which is open source blogging software users host themselves.
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Corporate platform for search and social media focus. Full service- hard to go wrong for any medium to large enterprise business.
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Focus on 37 Signals
Yes, completely biased, but this company has several tools that are reasonably priced, used by millions of companies both large and small, and their products are fantastic, easily (arguable) the best in their fields.-
By tackling project management from a collaboration and communication perspective, Basecamp has created far and away the number one used and like project management software online. It isn't even worth mentioning their competitors!
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Track your Leads, Contacts, & Deals with Highrise. The smarter way to keep track of the people you do business with. Know who you talked to, what was said, and when to follow-up next.
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Over 3 million people use 37 Signals web-based apps to get things done the simple way. Check out their other apps, api, extensions and more.
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Focus on Conferences
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The king of the crowd. 400,000 conferences.
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Zerista’s solution is designed to meet the most pressing problems of event managers—now and in the future. Good Social Media Integration
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One of the best, easy-to-use, on-line community and social network helps attendees (and sponsors) meet and communicate with each other.
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Focus on simplicity, electronic and Twitter.
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Smaller, more discreet. Hard to recommend, except that SXSW keeps on using them!
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Focus on Cool, one-of-a-kind Collaborative Tools
Great software to add to any collaborative company-
Share your purchases publicly- weird, but it shows how open, honest and sustainable you are- then publish it real time to your site, colleagues etc!
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Share and sell on Facebook - or sell what you have with 1-click. The simplest, best, most social e-commerce system ever.
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Keep track of your and your colleagues expenses in the simplest way possible. All expenses have to be corroborated- why not collaborate to make them simpler?
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Just like at the bottom of this page- share everything online!
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TimeBridge is a web application that makes it incredibly easy to schedule and lead great meetings—and follow up after you meet. Think of us as your calendar-wrangling, agenda-making, note-taking, team-motivating, secret weapon in the battle against...
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Focus on Tracking
Manage (or at least see) what people are doing, saying and doing around your identity and interests-
By far the easiest way to keep track of your name, your company or your interests, Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
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These guys make it practical and cost effective for marketers to orchestrate multi channel engagement with individuals; enabled by integrated data, analytics and content. Think Google Alerts on steroids, plus more!
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Sprout allows brands to quickly create brand experiences that are easily transportable across Facebook, MySpace and other social networks without needing expensive development resources.
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You have to be a little selfish sometimes... One day, your digital identity will be as important as your business card. Find our yours!
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Over 80% of the engagement with your content doesn't happen on your website. Discover your audience. Understand what works. Grow your reach and influence.
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See every mouse movement and every click that a visitor to any website. If you are online-you need to use this to understand your visitors.
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Exactly like it sounds. Footprint will show you visitors clicking through your site in real-time! Learn about any visitor with drill-down click path analysis: Hover your mouse over any visitor for complete Visitor Profile... Amazing!
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Focus on Meeting Scheduling
Want to find a time everyone can meet- there is software that can help with that. (Beyond Outlook and Gmail)-
An easy way to find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event. Just click the times you are free and it will do the rest.
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Great add on to you existing calendar/e-mail system. Send invitations proposing multiple times and let Tungle find the time that works for everyone. Tungle handles everything from time zones, to double booking, to updating your calendar.
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The world’s leading online scheduling tool, Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basic service is a free online coordination tool.
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Pretty online and offline tool. ScheduleOnce helps organizations accelerate their business by scheduling their meetings sooner and faster. It eliminates email and phone tag, and ensures a satisfying scheduling experience for all attendees.
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TimeBridge is a web application that makes it incredibly easy to schedule and lead great meetings—and follow up after you meet. Think of us as your calendar-wrangling, agenda-making, note-taking, team-motivating, secret weapon in the battle against...
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3rd Party Collaboration Software Lists
Lots of companies do all the hard work analysing the software. Ultimately each needs a test drive to meet your criteria, but here are some of the best lists of softawre... (e-mail us to get other lists included: ck@collaborationking.com)-
PDF of the Microsoft and IBM style players
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100 companies that label themselves as 'collaboration' software. Quality and offering vary greatly. Use some at your own risk!
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The #1 source for business software vendor reports. Over 100,000 copies of their reports have been downloaded. (registration required)
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Public generated description and list
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100 Vendors with comparison Grid
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Online conferencing tools are used for many reasons – sales presentations, webinars and training, to name a few. Plus, if you work from home, like many freelancers and small business owners do, you face the unique challenge of needing,,,
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In this article, we list several great applications for project and time management as well as collaboration between you and your clients. There are free and commercial options available. These project management apps are here to save you time, but...
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Find Technology. Easily. Research and compare technology vendors - all in one place. Buy Right. The more you know, the better your buying decision. Watch product demos. Catch the latest webinars. Read white papers, product brochures, and reviews.
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Today’s technology and machines (whether it’s PC or Mac) are certainly capable of processing large original files like .PSD (Photoshop) and .AI (Illustrator) but the bad news is the sharing part aren’t . These files are fairly large in size and...
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One of the best blogs takes a stab at the best collaboration software. A very, very impressive list.
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Conference meeting list. Some to small, but great list.
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Great simple collaboration tools to try for almost any occasion.
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Visual guide to collaboration software by Robin Good:
Visual guide to collaboration software by Gartner:
