Today, Thursday June 1, Mary Gillen writes about a cool tool from a company called 37signals.com.
Forget the index cards on your desk, the Gantt charts that lumber on and on, the post-it notes on the wall, fancy-schmancy graphs you don't need, and stats-heavy spreadsheets. Check out Basecamp from a company called 37signals.com.
Basecamp is a Web-based app that offers message boards, to-do lists, simple scheduling, collaborative writing, and file sharing. It allows you and your colleagues to easily track and organize all aspects of a project — or team effort — in one place.
You don't need to download, install, or configure anything. All you need is a web browser and an internet connection.
I agree with Jeremy Wagstaff of The Wall Street Journal who wrote, "'37signals' products are beautifully simple, elegant and intuitive tools that make an Outlook screen look like the software equivalent of a torture chamber.”
Take Basecamp for a spin: http://www.basecamphq.com.
I have to wholeheartedly concur with Mary -- 37signals makes great product. Their Backpack tool is also a terrific product. For road-warriors, it's a great, secure place to store things like itineraries, frequent flier and hotel club numbers, and files you don't want to carry on a flash drive. And all the 37signals web apps are absurdly easy to use and intuitive -- great stuff!
Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
Posted by: Genie | June 01, 2006 at 10:06 AM