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Teambox: An Excellent Open Source Collaborative Project Management Solution

While there are approximately 3 million project management apps (I’m guessing. I lost count around 102,463), TeamBox manages to stand out from the crowd by being both open source and focusing heavily on collaboration.

While many hosted web-based project management apps focus on collaboration, few of them are open source. And while there are quite a few open source project management apps, few focus heavily on collaboration in a way that’s designed for virtual teams.

Teambox has both of those covered.
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Clutterpad: A Complete Project Management App

Leslie A Joy 6th April Software 2 Comments

Clutterpad is a full-featured project management app that considers itself “a way of doing things-not just a tool.”

Clutterpad operates on 5 principles:

Sheer Beauty
Ease and Simplicity
Define Productivity
Complete Mobility
Security

Sheer Beauty

Clutterpad believes that to want to use something, you have to like the way it looks — and I completely agree. Clutterpad manages to achieve this with a sleek look where all features are easily accessible, without the interface looking cluttered.

Ease and Simplicity

Clutterpad thinks that “software should be as intuitive and easy to use as switching on a light.” While I still recommend that you always read all the features (and a product’s blog) — Clutterpad does do a pretty good job of having an intuitive interface.

Productivity Redefined

While I wouldn’t go as far as Clutterpad does in referring to using it as fun — it does offer a slew of features that can significantly help small teams stay organized, on track, and in touch all in one place.

Mobility

As a web-based app, Clutterpad is available from anywhere. (However, I didn’t see any mention of a mobile-optimized version.)

Security

Security is always concern — especially with cloud based apps — and Clutterpad lets it be know that they are super-serious about security.
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ProjeLead: Another Contender in the Project Management Software Market

Mike Vardy 5th April Software 3 Comments

Project management software has become a more integral tool for businesses in recent years, and another contender has come to our attention in recent weeks: ProjeLead.

ProjeLead touts itself as:

“…a simple open source tool that will make project managers focus more on their project than on their project management tool.”

Originally created to meet the internal needs of our project managers and consultants, ProjeLead has been offered as a free download since early 2009 under an Open Source license. The response from its user base has been quite positive and while we’re yet to give it a full review, they are gaining traction in what is a very crowded space.
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Contest: Win 1 of 5 Unlimited EasySign Packages

Mike Vardy 4th April Software 4 Comments

We covered EasySign Mobile a few weeks back here at WorkAwesome and they’ve altered their user interface even more recently in order to enhance the overall user experience. What is EasySign, exactly?

EasySign is an application that promises to make filling in and signing documents on an iPhone or iPad a cakewalk.

I’ve been using the service ever since we covered it…and it’s been incredibly convenient. If you haven’t given it a look yet, check out our overview of the app and give it a try.
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Take Care of Your Email Follow-up Woes with NudgeMail

Abhijeet Mukherjee 30th March Software 4 Comments

The problem with getting a huge number of emails every day isn’t the time it takes to reply to them. Well, that’s a part of the problem — but there’s a bigger issue: forgetting to follow-up on important emails.

Yes, it happens all the time.

Remember the last time you lost out on a deal because you were to send an email on Tuesday and you forgot? Or when you forgot to follow-up on that urgent request by one of your friends or family, and then later spent hours on the phone doing damage control?

NudgeMail is an email reminder service that aims to get rid of email follow-up woes. Now, there are certainly things like Gmail labels, filters and other tools to create your own email follow-up system. But not every one can set them up in the perfect way. A simple service like NudgeMail might be a better alternative.
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Collabtive: Project Management Simplified

Shre Chakravorty 27th March Software 9 Comments

An integral part of work is project management. Whether big or small, a project cannot be successful if it isn’t well-managed. Every work has its own set of requirements, priorities, deadlines and more. Managing a project becomes a mammoth task, especially when we do not take proper steps to make sure it is managed effectively. Today, when many of us spend a good part of our lives in front of a computer screen, a good way to manage projects is through software.

Software like Microsoft Project can do the job, but then there are people like me who don’t like spending a small fortune on buying software. ApolloHQ (see earlier review) is a great option, but the limiting factor is the online access required. Without the cloud, ApolloHQ cannot take flight.

Another viable option is Collabtive, which is free and open source project management software. It has a very elegant and easy-to-use interface. The user (once logged in) can add projects, which she can then manage. Project management with Collabtive is easy. You can have as many users as you want. The users can also send messages to each other, that may (or may not) contain information on projects. The only disadvantage for some people may be that it does not provide the ability to create Gantt charts.
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