Working remotely, not being in the same office, or even time-zone, as your colleagues, forces you to rely on many tools to communicate, collaborate, manage, account and track.
We use quite a complicated set of mainly web-based tools to do this, but it’s worth it, because it allows myself and my team to stay remote and flexible. And the last thing we want is to go back to the daily commute!
Here is the officeless infrastructure we use:
- Communications
- Sales & CRM
- Project management
- Blogging
- Accounts, Bookkeeping & Billing
- Marketing
- Hosting
It’s interesting to note how important web-based tools are to living the work-from-home dream.
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37signals,
basecamp,
highrise,
officeless,
slicehost
I’ve been using Basecamp for years now.
I was first introduced to it at Spring Digital in 04 and opened my first personal account in 05. I’ve always intended to post about it and try explain why it’s such an essential piece of software. However, Basecamp‘s genius is hard to define in a single blog post as it does so much! And the effect of Basecamp is subtle — sure, it does to-dos, messages, chat & milestones, but so do a lot of other pieces of software. Basecamp just happens to do these things better than the competition and in a way that can transform your own thinking, effectiveness and profession.
And if that isn’t enough to convince you to try it, it has only cost me a little over a thousand bucks for these years of happy project management.
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37signals,
basecamp
