Comments on: DeskAway…Like Basecamp or…?

By: DeskAway Blog » Blog Archive » Journey 2008

DeskAway Blog » Blog Archive » Journey 2008 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:03:31 +0000

[...] to Web Worker Daily, an A-list blog technology and web apps blog for reviewing DeskAway in late May here (comparing it to Basecamp) and then again in December here (for turning on project 2.0 social [...]

By: BG

BG — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:05:20 +0000

I’m using DeskAway on a trial basis but wish the dashboard view wasn’t so plain.

By: To Pay Or Not to Pay: When to Move Beyond Free

To Pay Or Not to Pay: When to Move Beyond Free — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:01:04 +0000

[...] How useful is the free version? In my WWD review, I was impressed that Deskaway’s free version had more features than Basecamp’s. That [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive DeskAway Embraces the Social Turn, Adds More Personalization Options «

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:46:14 +0000

[...] 10th, 2008 (10:45am) Darrell Etherington No Comments Way back in May, our own Aliza Sherman took a look at DeskAway, a Basecamp-like collaborative project management solution from Synage, a SaaS pioneer [...]

By: Aditya Gholap

Aditya Gholap — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:06:30 +0000

Well i actually think that GeniusRoom is pretty similar to DeskAway. GenuisRoom has private chat and DeskAway has superior analytics Just got my free account and i think everything else is the same. So between the 2, its a question of what kind of functionality you want. I personally think chat can be a productivity killer – but yea, if people are far away, then maybe its a good idea. Although there are better tools for online meetings. I would stick to DeskAway – been happy so far.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:51:09 +0000

Have any of you tried GeniusRoom? I’m comparing to Basecamp and Deskaway and it looks to have features more specific to hosting meetings (probably a good place to hold your scrum if you’re spread out).

By: Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:46:26 +0000

If you are a Basecamp user – ExportReports.com is now offering a free trial of its service http://www.exportreports.com. that Exports Basecamp projects to PDF.

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Smartsheet Offers List Based Project Collaboration «

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:00:40 +0000

[...] one of the other project management solutions available that we have covered like Basecamp, DeskAway, or Joint Contact before making any [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Joint Contact Inserts Social Media Into Web-Based Project Management «

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:03:06 +0000

[...] also started using Deskaway’s free level of service for a new client project as I wrote about in May, and after a little over a month using it, my team and I are abandoning it because it just [...]

By: Harshil Karia

Harshil Karia — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:19:48 +0000

@ Anglais – as a user who has upgraded to a pro account i can assure you that your data is safe and support is great. Infact DA is unrivaled in terms of support. Read their blog (http://www.deskaway.com/blog/index.php) – for insights into how people are experiencing it – there are handy case studies with great insights into management.

By: Laurent Liscia

Laurent Liscia — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:24:50 +0000

Well, hats off to Basecamp for generating sites like these from their sheer supremacy. Let me mention Taskado, a social project management tool for those of you that run their projects in a Web 2.0 world. Taskado replaces Gantt charts with tag clouds for instance. Best of all it's free.

By: Anglais à Paris

Anglais à Paris — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:27:24 +0000

I’m very tempted by DeskAway but I’m worried about data security and whether the company will last. I’d prefer a self-hosted solution but there are thin pickings. The best I’ve found to date is ActiveCollab but it appears to be a one-man-band and I need to be sure of support and I’d like some customization work, which they don’t do. So far I’ve reviewed 16 solutions. Quick reviews are on my blog if interested.

By: Ella Marris

Ella Marris — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:29:49 +0000

Although Basecamp is the pioneer in this business, many new solutions have emerged on the market (some of them even better than Basecamp).
I personally like ProjectOffice.net. It is a very simple project management tool that offers some extended functionalities: projects, tasks, timesheets, expenses, issue tracking and my favorite wikis. What is most important is that it is free. Sure, it is in Beta, but the application is “bugless” and stable.

/Ella

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:00:20 +0000

Alice, you need to keep up with the competition. Basecamp added email integration a few months ago. Probably not nearly as robust as what you have, but for adding replies to message threads via email reply it seems to be working quite nicely.

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 26 May 2008 06:26:09 +0000

Basecamp does not have many features and it's developers seem proud of it. The two main features that Basecamp lacks are email integration and Gantt charts. Many other tools developers try to copy Basecamp adding some minor features, but missing the core point. We have developed Wrike as an agile project management solution for those who do not find what they need in Basecamp and MS Project.

By: Tim Howell

Tim Howell — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:58:07 +0000

For those people who use Microsoft Outlook every day, and want the convenience of that combined with the accessibility of the web, have a look at ActionThis at www.actionthis.com. There is a free plan available, while there are some great add-ons for Outlook and Excel, with others coming.