Comments on: Online communication tool for small team

Question: Online communication tool for small team

allison00 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:49:02 -0800

What is a good online communication tool for a small group?

We are a team of 5 who all work in the same city but at different locations. We currently use MSN Messenger but need something else that will allow us to read the conversations that occurred when we were offline. We also need searching ability of the chat log. We would like to be able to include images/files in our chats but that is not a requirement. It needs to be free.

By: allison00

allison00 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:54:48 -0800

Additionally, it would be very helpful if we could access this tool by iPad.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:54:52 -0800

Google+ Hangouts

By: hariya

hariya — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:56:57 -0800

We use yammer but it is more like a Facebook wall than chatting.

By: allison00

allison00 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:59:08 -0800

Hariya: I just looked into Yammer but found that the group can't be private if we have a free account.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:13:40 -0800

Google+ / Google Hangouts?

By: thatone

thatone — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:23:56 -0800

campfire by 37signals is just what you're looking for.

(Whoops, good thing there's an edit window now. I missed that it has to be free. Sorry.)

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:15:15 -0800

I have been using Facebook groups (not Fan pages) to carry on agenda-setting with groups. It's not public, you can upload files, invite people. the major bonus: everyone is there and there is nothing to install. YMMV

By: allison00

allison00 — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:33:42 -0800

We decided on Campfire as our solution, and it's working perfectly so far. As a team, we are going to shell out the $12/month rather than settle for a free not-as-good solution.