Often bloggers work with other bloggers and online professionals from different parts of the world. Large email conversations, file exchanges, document collaborations, discussions can become tedious in online collaborations. Project management tools help sort and organize these various online interactions. DeskAway is one such completely web-based social collaboration tool. It is marketed, designed, managed and conceptualized from India, but has got users from all over the world, mostly US.
Its Social
The aspect I like best about this tool is its ’socialness’. There is a blog and microblog feature in it. It is easy to interact with the team, and maintain a camaraderie. Often working online does not allow team bonding and informal interactions but these social tools encourage general chit-chat and other open discussions between the team members.
Lot of Automation
Another useful feature of this tool is the automated reports and analytics. You can check how many projects are pending by how many tasks, which projects are completed. Within each project the pending tasks, milestones. These easily give you an idea of how the work is going and how much time the projects will take.
Email Updates
Email notifications and updates can be sent to the team when you add a new project, task, blog or issue. Tasks and issues can be added via email through a feature called Deskmail which is available in the higher paid plans.
If you don’t want a large number of emails bombarding your inbox you can subscribe to the RSS feature which lets you get any updates within a project in your feed reader.
Pricing
DeskAway has a free basic plan which allows 3 projects and 5 users. It has no expiry.
Upgrades range from $10 to $99 /month. All the paid plans can be tried free for one month!
Sign up for a free plan and check out their features!
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I need to check what microblog and how it works.
Jausa, I hadn’t even heard of this type of platform. For small projects event the free option might be enough. If I would think of a co-op blogging environment this might be a good platform to use.
Thanks Priyanka for bringing this up