Build Your Own Workplace to Go
November 27th, 2007 (2:08pm) Anne Zelenka 11 Comments
Today 19Marketplace announced its Workplace2go offering, a hosted set of business applications available on a pay-as-you-go basis. The offering includes WebEx Web Office, WebEx Web Conferencing, Microsoft Exchange Email, Blackberry Mobile Service, and more. As I wrote on GigaOM, this may be just the thing for the small business owner who doesn’t want to put together and troubleshoot his or her own (likely cheaper) alternative from Web 2.0 tools.
But what if you do want to build your own workplace to go? What applications would it include? Here’s what I’d use:
- Google Apps for Your Domain for email, calendar, chat, and a web-based office suite
- Mobile email with the Gmail mobile client
- Mozy for backup
- Yugma for web conferencing
- Skype for conference calls
- FreshBooks for invoicing
What tools would make up your “workplace to go”?
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Mia says: November 27th, 2007 3:18pm
we use yugma and skype as well. they are fabulous…even together! i will definately be looking into the other tools you mentioned as well. thanks!
Peter says: November 27th, 2007 3:35pm
Yugma is nice, but very slow as soon as you need to remote control a machine. I prefer http://www.logmein.com
To make all my web apps work together I use the free iMacros browser macro tool.
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
Steve says: November 27th, 2007 4:43pm
I prefer Blinksale to Freshbooks for invoicing, though my needs are very simple. And the 37signals suite of apps (though mostly Basecamp) is awesome.
Adam Benayoun says: November 27th, 2007 4:47pm
I am using the applications suite at http://www.octabox.com. we’re currently on private beta.
But when we’ll be launching our public beta, we’ll have more than 10-12 integrated modules ready to launch at any moment from the octabox workplace.
Check us out.
Keith Kamisugi says: November 27th, 2007 5:38pm
Just to try it out, I ordered the Exchange and Blackberry Mobile services ($30/month together) for one seat. Crossing my fingers!
tiffany says: November 28th, 2007 7:56am
I’d swap Skype for Gizmo and Amazon S3 for Mozy. Plus I personally prefer Zoho’s office suite. I’ve got my own server space, so I’ve got SugarCRM running there and I’m debating running Zimbra’s open source project. I don’t do much web conferencing, but I’m itching to give DimDim a try.
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Owen says: December 2nd, 2007 7:26pm
For those lucky enough to be in New Zealand, Xero.com is a great lightweight web based accounting system, that handles alot of what small busineses really need. New Zealand only but soon to be opened to UK and Australia. Well worth a look
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Nik says: December 3rd, 2007 8:47pm
There is also NetAccounts by Saasu.com for invoicing and integration with e-commerce engines via web services.
Love Gmail for domains and it just keeps on getting better with the IMAP integration and the contact features coming up. Have not been too impressed with Skype (even with phillips wireless handsets), call quality has sometimes suffered.
Peter says: December 4th, 2007 6:28pm
Saasu.com is not just a freshbooks it does heaps of stuff, I am a huge fan and run two whole businesses on it and some personal stuff too now.
wrt Skype - I have had mixed experience with skype too, their new business management tools are great though and I notice they are doing more post-call surveys now so probably something they are working on?
Porobably worth mentioning the salesforce.com free version if you are a tech business. It also has a rather sweet integration Saasu.com that just works out of the box.
Google Docs is rapidly becoming a major fav too.