Cool collaboration platforms and products

October 20, 2016 2:22 PM

My office is in the middle of piloting a certain tool for cross-organizational collaboration, but I'm wondering what else is out there.

I know of Yammer, but that's a little too unstructured. There's also Trello, but that's mainly for project management. Is there anything you're using or have heard of for interoffice project collaboration or for work between organizations?

posted by lunalaguna to Work & Money (6 answers total)

What about Slack plus solutions for calendar and doc sharing?
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 2:28 PM on October 20, 2016

Response by poster: This isn't needed for design projects, by the way. It's more for sharing ideas. Multimedia functionality would be nice, though.
posted by lunalaguna at 2:28 PM on October 20, 2016

Asana. It's pretty robust but takes some learning. They have excellent documentation though.
posted by Brittanie at 2:37 PM on October 20, 2016

How technically savvy are the users?

What do you mean by multimedia functionality? Sharing large files? Access to image databases?
posted by A hidden well at 5:57 PM on October 20, 2016

"Collaboration" is pretty vague, these things depend highly on the kinds of stuff you want to do and how people like to interact in the process. Like the first thing that came to mind for me was to use a StackExchange clone, where instead of questions you have proposals and ideas.
posted by rhizome at 7:59 PM on October 20, 2016

Is the tool you're piloting Basecamp? If not, try it out.
posted by michaelhoney at 1:00 AM on October 21, 2016