May 12th, 2008

In this modern era of new technology and the fast paced business enviroment, it’s still very easy to get stuck in the same old mind frame of hoarding ideas and trying to do everything yourself. Is that really the most optimal solution? I think not…

Collaboration is the name of the game in this knowledge driven society of ours. We all need to change the way we think about business and working with people. By sharing our ideas and inviting others to give opinions and help us in growing our ideas we can achieve some amazing results. There are so many new applications on the interent that can help us with this. One such site I have come across so far is Basecamp which allows you to work with clients, co-workers or anyone else that you want to share your information with.

Another great online application that you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for is Google Docs which is great for sharing documents as well as just simply doing some word processing away from you regular computer. Google Docs now allows you to work offline so you can almost just drop that expensive Microsoft Office package of yours and go open source. Or can you?

I will be tesing this over the next couple of months and will let you know what I think.