#collaboration (117 links)
- "Collaboration" is bullshit. joanwestenberg.com
When you strip away the product marketing and the dev relations and the blog posts and the funding rounds and the fuckery-upon-fuckery of it all, we’re left with a simulation of collective engagement - but very little else. Transparency got confused with progress, visibility got confused with accountability, and being included in the thread became the same thing, socially and organizationally, as owning the outcome.
- Conventional Comments conventionalcomments.org
Comments that are easy to grok and grep
- The importance of defining terms on every project, and how to agree them gathercontent.com
A look at the importance of shared vocabulary for projects with some non-tech world examples and showing how digital teams can benefit from this.
- Loomio: decide together loomio.com
Bring people together, have discussions, make proposals and achieve clear outcomes
- Split Your Overwhelmed Teams - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
Two teams of five is not the same as one team of ten.
CoScreen enables you and your team members to share and edit any app windows simultaneously on your joint workspace. Stop giving up your privacy by sharing your entire screen.
- Loomio - Make decisions without meetings loomio.org
- Abstract goabstract.com
- Cisco Spark notes.ciscospark.com
- hackpad hackpad.com
- Notable notableapp.com
is the easiest way for teams to provide feedback on websites.
- Draft. Write Better. draftin.com
<blockquote>Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Write better with a simple markdown editor, version control and easy collaboration tools.</blockquote>
- InVision invisionapp.com
- Asana asana.com
Rands says use things instead of Things. But I like Things.
- Pixelapse - Visual version control for designers pixelapse.com
- Flowdock flowdock.com
- HipChat hipchat.com
- Sazneo sazneo.com
Wondering why I didn't save this in 2008. Keep referring to it.
- Convore convore.com
- gerrit - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.
- Pivotal Tracker - Free Lightweight Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration, from Pivotal Labs pivotaltracker.com
Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
Swywths are those voices inside your head telling you want you want to hear. Send in your secret thoughts and we'll say them for you. They might even feature in an Radio 4 Afternoon Play.
- Meet With Approval meetwithapproval.com
Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming
- FontExplorer® X Server - Professional font management software fontexplorerx.com
Expensive, hefty looking font server.
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
Interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals.
- Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base wiki.english.ucsb.edu
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
- Complete Introduction to git students.ceid.upatras.gr
This short tutorial shall attempt to explain the git system to people who have no, or minimal experience on SCMs and version control tools.
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule paulgraham.com
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it.
- ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage shiftspace.org
An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
Adaptive Path using Basecamp, Skype and ConceptShare. Been impressed by the latter, in particular (although there are plenty of other services doing the same thing).
- Rypple - A little feedback goes a long way rypple.com
Handy-looking feedback tool.
"You’d think that with the futuristic and gravity defying creations they spawn, architects would be leading the vanguard of efficient working practices. It turns out they’re still stuck in the 90s, where sharing files and collaborating with partners and clients is done via CD and bike messenger, or – shock! horror! – even printouts sent by post." I don't find that surprising in the least. Woobius looks interesting, though.
- Permatime permatime.com
Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone.
- CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter cotweet.com
"Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support." Wow, way to make it sound really boring.
- Method Cards - Case Studies - IDEO ideo.com
A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.
- Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward akoha.com
The world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
- Onehub onehub.com
FTP Replacement, Large File Transfer, Custom Extranets
- Laconica laconi.ca
A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.
- How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. metabrew.com
Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.