Monday, July 13, 2009

Technology and Team Collaboration/ Communication




– – For years I’ve been part of a team that established a new Microsoft SharePoint site for our projects only to become frustrated with administration, “where is that file again?” resorting to the old process of attaching a document to an email and “there goes version control!” If you are a small to medium sized business, you might want to check out Onehub. While the television show I was watching went to commercial break, I quickly went to Onehub, created a hub. This is “a tabbed interface that connects to files of all sizes, a calendar, a task list and a discussion board;” moreover, “a project manager can assign different security levels to each user – read only, contributor, and author or administrator” (Charles Bermant, the Seattle Times, June 8, 2009, p. A7). By the time the commercials were over, I had invited several individual contributors to my new hub! Onehub, based in Bellevue, provides this collaboration service with a monthly fee starting at about the cost of about four Starbucks Venti® Caffè Misto/Café Au Lait’s.

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