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Virtual Companies and Online Collaboration

I’m sure you’re aware of virtual companies. From techweb.com website, a virtual company is:

An organization that uses computer and telecommunications technologies to extend its capabilities by working routinely with employees or contractors located throughout the country or the world. Using e-mail, faxes, instant messaging, data and videoconferencing, it implies a high degree of telecommuting as well as using remote facilities.

There are advantages like convenience and cost but it’s harder to manage projects especially when you’re used to brainstorming with your team in person. I believe, and I say this from experience that the most important thing a virtual company should invest on is an online project management tool like Project Spaces. Project Spaces is a simple online workspace that helps anyone in the company to learn about a project, task or document. As a project collaboration tool; you can assign, update, track your entire project’s ongoing tasks; send email reminders to team members, publish project timelines and milestones, and basically update everyone on the project’s status. Uploading documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and videos is fast that you don’t have to send emails with large attachments anymore. The data is very secure as it uses disaster recovery, DDoS mitigation services, system patches against exploits and multiple daily backups. The pricing is also affordable - from $39/month for one project with 25 users to $499 for managing up to 100 projects with unlimited users.