Help me find my group collaboration app
November 23, 2015 8:34 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for a service or app that will allow my volunteer group to be a little more productive, rather than managing things from our individual email accounts. Yahoo Groups, Google Docs, and Basecamp all have some element of what I'm looking for, but not everything. Can you help me find my killer app?
Our needs, in order of importance:
1. Listserve functionality. Email one address to get to the whole group. Bonus if we can have sub-groups (Committee A, Committee B) in addition to the main. Ideally, users could email this address from within their own email program and not need to log in to the service/app unless they need some of the other features.
2. Domain agnostic and ideally allows participants to use the email address of their choice as their log-in (as opposed to requiring a google or yahoo email to access the account). This is especially important because for some people in the group, these activities are part of their job and need to be tied to their work email accounts. Volunteers are using their preferred personal accounts.
3. Free/very cheap.
4. Information gathering. Could be document hosting or simple text editor stuff. No need for editing features/track changes - just a place to have an FAQ and a few other documents with basic info.
5. Calendar function.
Where should I be looking?
Our needs, in order of importance:
1. Listserve functionality. Email one address to get to the whole group. Bonus if we can have sub-groups (Committee A, Committee B) in addition to the main. Ideally, users could email this address from within their own email program and not need to log in to the service/app unless they need some of the other features.
2. Domain agnostic and ideally allows participants to use the email address of their choice as their log-in (as opposed to requiring a google or yahoo email to access the account). This is especially important because for some people in the group, these activities are part of their job and need to be tied to their work email accounts. Volunteers are using their preferred personal accounts.
3. Free/very cheap.
4. Information gathering. Could be document hosting or simple text editor stuff. No need for editing features/track changes - just a place to have an FAQ and a few other documents with basic info.
5. Calendar function.
Where should I be looking?
Came in to recommend Slack -- I use it for an online course I'm taking, work, and a private group.
posted by hrj at 9:05 AM on November 23, 2015
posted by hrj at 9:05 AM on November 23, 2015
eXo seems to have the functionality you're looking for - it's an enterprise level program, can be used with existing Google+/Facebook/LinkedIn accounts, open source, has calendars/project forums/wikis and offers a coordinating Android/iOS app. Cloud service is $30 yearly per group member.
posted by givennamesurname at 10:03 AM on November 23, 2015
posted by givennamesurname at 10:03 AM on November 23, 2015
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