Top 5 Ways to Collaborate

In July 2007, Mashable published an article outlining 60+ collaborative tools. They covered a lot of ground: discussing mind-mapping, business productivity, creative collaboration and family and social collaboration. Entrepreneurs are constantly adding to the collaborative toolbox by finding new and interesting ways of connecting people, whether it's businesses, friends, or creatives, visual learners, etc. In the nearly two years that have past since Mashable's 60+ collaborative tools was published, there have been many more additions to the 60.

At Sparxoo, we have an agile team is creatively stretching into new territory. We have tried several collaborative tools to collaborate on projects, but few have stuck. In this week's top five, we will discuss collaborative tools that have worked for us:

1. Editing Docs and Spreadsheets
There are dozens of live editing software companies out there. Businessitonline, ProjectSpaces, eLoops are some of many file sharing and editing software companies offering the same basic service. Instead of choosing one over the other or wasting money for subscriptions, we went back to basics and stuck with what we know best: Google. Google Docs is software as a service (SaaS) for anyone, whether you have a Gmail account or not. Google Docs and Spreadsheets are the cloud computing version of Microsoft office. In fact, if you want to download or upload a .doc or .xls file to share with your colleagues, Google Docs can support it.

2. Video Conferencing
The major obstacle with many of the emerging software companies is use.

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