Cool Tool For Professionals

I was thinking of a cool tool that I can share with everyone. It is hard to find the right one to discuss and share cause I use a lot of them. The one that I will share with you is a cool tool that I have been using for a while is and it is Huddle. This tool is using Cloud Technology and is free to the public. It has allowed me to share and collaborate through my research with other colleagues in education, work and personal ventures, where collaboration is needed.

Here are some examples from Huddle on the uses of this tool;

Use Huddle for:

• Personal projects : Secure online file storage, view/edit Word .doc and Excel .xls documents online without buying the software, manage events, sports teams and co-ordinate friends/family.
• At work : Project management, team collaboration, document sharing.

Solutions for:

• Marketing : Store product artwork centrally. Share large files with your team, agencies and suppliers while controlling level of access. By-pass email system and avoid FTP servers.
• PR: Branded client extranet. Store all press materials. Post photography and share large files. Track changes to press releases. Provide coverage and reports.
• IT: Connect remote development teams. Central document repository. Separate workspaces for different projects. Use API to connect with code and testing tools.
• Consultants: Professional branded client extranet. Manage multiple projects securely from one interface. Store all documents online. Access anywhere.
• Professional services: Secure file repository with built-in workflows. Client extranet. Track changes, audit trail and automatic version control. Review and edit documents online.
• Publishing : Create/edit copy collaboratively. Review and comment online. Connect freelancers. Upload and store images centrally.
• Start-ups: Free alternative to your own fileservers. Central document storage accessible anywhere. No software needed to view/edit docs. All your data securely backed up.
• Company boards : Secure space for storing all board communications. Everyone has visibility. Track minutes, comments, changes and views. RSS and email alerts.
• Academic : Access from Facebook. Work on project documents together regardless of location. No word/excel software needed. Automatically store previous versions.
• Government : Policy discussion and collaboration. Connect teams inside and outside your department. Secure file storage. Document revisions, audit trails and approvals online.
• Media production : Pitch ideas. Store docs centrally. Control budgets. Script versioning. Shoot schedules. Audio samples. Offline edits. 

(www.huddle.com)

This tool gives the capability to share, edit and markup by selected people or a group of people you give access to. You are able to track the approvals by others and see what they say during the process. You can also select approval times by date to give everyone a deadline to complete. There are many features in Huddle that can help teams of all sorts and from around the world. The best thing is that this tool can be integrated with popular collaboration sites, an example is Linked In for professionals.