Creative Collaboration Tools give you new ways to help your team work better together.
Collaborate like never before with the multipurpose SGFlex Whiteboard. This innovative whiteboard has the flexibility to go where traditional whiteboards cannot! It can be cut, written on with dry erase markers, and even removed when no longer needed. Take it on the road with you when visiting clients or colleagues in need of an impromptu brainstorming session. Use it in your home office to organize your own thoughts.
InVision
Created specifically for designers, InVision is a web-based tool and mobile app that turns your designs into fully active prototypes, complete with gestures, transitions and animations. Clients can provide feedback in the form of comments on your designs , and you can keep them up to date with the project’s progress in real time through actionable to-do lists. Getting started on your first project with InVision is free, but any more than that and you’ll need to move to a paid plan.
Visme
Browser-based collaboration tool Visme collects all your team activities in one place. It’s especially good for designers because it enables you to create a variety of visual projects, including presentations and infographics. There are built-in features to help you monitor on each user’s workload, progress, and activity on ongoing jobs.
appear.in
You want to see all your team’s smiling faces, right? That’s not always possible when working remotely, but online collaboration tool appear.in is the next best thing. This brilliant video conversation app allows up to eight people to converse in a chatroom, with no login or downloads required. It’s free to use, or you can bump up to a paid Pro plan for extra features.
Red Pen
More fun than a teacher’s marking pen, this feedback tool is particularly great if you’re a freelancer looking for some constructive criticism on a project. Specifically created for designers, Red Pen lets you drag and drop your designs into a dashboard and invite specific colleagues (or even clients) to let you know their thoughts in real- time as you roll out your latest updates. One of Red Pen‘s best features is that it keeps track of the numerous versions so you can always reclaim that earlier design if you change your mind.
Figma
Sometimes great ideas come from personal inspiration, but the real magic happens when everyone gets together. For any web designer who has ever wanted a simple way to share their ideas with their team, there’s Figma. When collaboration is easier, you can ship new designs and see the impacts of your work more quickly. Like any great tool for collaboration, Figma helps you avoid busywork so you have more time to create.
Suitcase TeamSync
While each image in your project is worth a thousand words, you need more than images to push your creativity to new heights. Fonts can convey and amplify the tone of each element in your design, but finding the right font can feel like walking a tightrope. And when you have to manage fonts for a team of designers, that’s when things can get really tricky.
Or not.
It’s easy to share the right fonts with your team through Suitcase TeamSync. Save time and ensure font consistency across all your projects. Better font management is closer than you think.
Chanty
Communicate with your team and collaborate on new projects with ease by employing the user-friendly Chanty. It is a modern tool that anyone can take to their total advantage to boost the workflow and get things done quicker. Keep in mind, you can start working with Chanty free of charge and only later upgrade to the premium package (if even necessary).
Interact
More enterprise-oriented teams will benefit greatly from the features that Interact brings to the internal work process. Whether your team is looking to communicate, collaborate or share, Interact takes care of all the necessities that may stand in the way of making multiple workstations seem like one. Their Intelligence Store platform keeps logs of actions, which allow for tailoring and intelligently displaying content to the team members who are working with the particular projects. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea-sharing through the use of corporate social networking and microblogs.
Some of the features of Chanty are audio calls, voice messaging, guest users, screen sharing and dark mode toggle. If you would like to test the waters, you can even book a demo first and go from there. It also supports video calls and task management with the Kanban board. Once you go Chanty, there is no turning back.
Facebook Workplace
The world’s biggest social media network, Facebook, has a team collaboration service – Facebook Workplace – that can serve as a corporate intranet portal.
The platform has a very user-friendly interface where teams can collaborate through their own portals, as well as through the Facebook Pages, Notes and Docs. On Facebook Workplace, team members can collaborate on tasks via voice/video call and instant messaging. The platform also has machine learning bots built-in to automate certain tasks.
Pros
- Supports polls to measure employee opinions
- Integrates with other systems
- Unlimited photo and video uploads
Cons
- All data is stored on Facebook servers in the cloud, which may be prone to privacy issues.
Skype for Business
Most of us are familiar with Skype. Simply put, it’s an online collaboration tool that allows users to communicate with any other Skype user for free via instant messaging, voice, video and screen sharing.
More importantly, Skype supports conference calls for up to 25 people, which means it can be a very convenient way to bring all your team together for a quick update of project status.
For more premium features, opt instead for Skype for Business.
Pros
- The tool is free
- You can call anyone in the world who has a Skype account
- Supports screen sharing
- The app is easy to install
Cons
- Offers no language translation services
- Skype picks up background noises easily
- Sound quality is dependent on bandwidth
Karbon
Karon is a work management platform for accounting firms and professional service businesses. It provides a truly collaborative platform to manage workflows, communicate with teams and deliver exceptional client work.
Karbon combines email, internal discussions, tasks and powerful workflows, which gives teams a single place to communicate and collaborate. It is proven to increase visibility and efficiency. In fact, according to a recent survey, the average Karbon user saves more than 10 hours each week.
Pros
- Integrated email
- Automatically compiled activity timelines
- Lots of task automation
- Extremely robust and feature-rich
Cons
- Designed for accounting firms, so many features aren’t relevant to other businesses
- No free version (although there is a 14-day free trial)
Google Docs
This is likely nothing new to you. It is perhaps the most famous documentation tool out there. Google Docs allows multiple people to edit the same file at same time, leave comments, and see changes made by every participant (revision history).
All you have to do is invite team members to work on a file in Google docs. With that, all participants have a central place to store and share information, take notes, and just seamlessly collaborate and have access to the information they need to get work done.
Pros
- Cloud based, no installations required
- All changes made on documents are automatically saved to Google Drive so you won’t lose them
- Multiple collaborators on a document can see changes in real time
Cons
- Limited features compared to Microsoft Word
Freshdesk
If you want to bring all your team together and deliver extraordinary customer support, Freshdesk is a tool that you can lean on. It comes with robust collaboration features that promote teamwork and help your team to work more efficiently. This online tool for collaboration allows you to invite team members, agents, or business partners to discuss and solve tickets at a single place. Additionally, there’s a customizable team dashboard that you can use to monitor all the customer support activities of your team.
What is unique about Freshdesk?
- Simplified ticketing – Freshdesk gives you an easy way to manage and organize your customer tickets so that things never slip through the cracks.
- Collaboration features – it also lets you share the ownership of tickets and collaborate with your team members for providing seamless customer support and service.
- Automation – Freshdesk leverages automation technology, allowing your team members to do away with repetitive tasks.
- Reporting – advanced reporting and tracking system in Freshdesk ensures that you can make data driven decisions in the future.
- Security – Freshdesk employs top security measures and SSL encryptions to ensure that all your data is complete safe as a house.
Troop Messenger
Troop Messenger’s feature-stack is functionally powerful, flawless, and is the one best slack alternative for team communication and collaboration. It can be considered as an apt tool for all sizes of organizations. The user navigation across this business chat application is promisingly seamless for any novice user. Its impressive and immersive user interfaces make each feature self-explanatory to the end-users. Troop Messenger is cross-platform enabled; it is available on Windows, Linux, Browser, Android, and iOS. Troop Messenger is coming up with an exceptional feature called an Orange Member. This feature enables the non-company employees to be a part of the application with their public/private domain email id’s. Try out your hands-on the new-age business collaboration chat application, The Troop Messenger right away.
What is unique about Troopmessenger?
- One place for all your communications – Troop Messenger offers the option to carry out audio and video calling, along with voice messaging and chat messaging at one place to unify your communication efforts.
- An-app help – there is in-app help available for users to get answers to your How tos and all your FAQs about using the app.
- Confidentiality – carry out private conversations that are not stored anywhere. Set a time stipulated time period for your chats and keep them confidential.
- Screen sharing – you can share your screen with others in your team for a better understanding of the tasks and work in real-time.
- File sharing – using Troop Messenger you can also share files instantly and easily across individuals as well as groups.
- Search – Troop Messenger gives you the option to carry out a Global Search as well as Text Search, along with advanced search filters for easy and quick information retrieval.
Conclusion
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