I have used a fantastic tool called Basecamp for quite some time. It is a tool created by 37Signals and has been out for a long while and probably reviewed dozens of times before. I wanted to write a brief post about this tool though because of the tremendous value I have gotten from it over the past year. More importantly, I wanted to write about it because it is a great example of applications that are available on the internet, or, to use the term used today, an app that is in the cloud. I am a tech at heart and love to deploy things internally, but I see increasingly, how powerful the "in-the-cloud" model is about to become. Before I go too far, though, let's talk a little about Basecamp first.
Basecamp has allowed me to dynamically created shared project workspaces. The important thing here is that I use it for projects. I don't think that Basecamp is effective for a long-term repository. 37Signals has other tools for corporate-like Intranets. Basecamp allows me to setup shared spaces that revolve around projects, and I create those spaces with members from my own team and the client team. That is the first powerful aspect of this cloud-based application. By being in the cloud members from different organizations can easily access Basecamp, which is not always the case when you deploy something internally.
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