{"id":2703,"date":"2016-09-15T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:49:41","slug":"online-collaboration-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/online-collaboration-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Online collaboration software &#8211; A tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Why do we need online collaboration software? Many managers ask. Our work is getting more complex every day. We work on more challenging gadgets, buildings, bridges, and cars to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To overcome these complexities, collaboration is considered the best and least expensive solution. When teams are located in one room, collaboration comes naturally. But this\u00a0isn&#8217;t always true when\u00a0our teams are\u00a0located in multiple geographical locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Collaboration has been touted\u00a0as the secret sauce which makes teams more productive and successful when they work locally or remotely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It has been extensively documented that teams which collaborate have a much higher success rate than teams which don&#8217;t. As globalization and outsourcing\u00a0gain momentum, more project teams have remote workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">They may be located in different cities, countries and even continents. Remote work is one of the enablers of growth in the global economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Due to the above factors, collaboration is a hot topic these days in academia and business circles. Online collaboration software has become the most sought-after tool by project managers and team leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Most managers\u00a0actively\u00a0seek\u00a0collaboration tools\u00a0to improve communication and collaboration within their teams to enhance productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In this post, I cover what are the features of good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/dear-collaboration-corner-response-guest-blogger-keith-brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online collaboration\u00a0application<\/a> and how teams can use such tools effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The recent advances in technology have made the effective collaboration for remote workers\u00a0possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By its very nature when applications are hosted in the cloud, they are much better suited to be\u00a0great collaborative tools. For this reason, 90% of all collaboration tools today are Online collaboration tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Online Collaboration software must-have features<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">What does a software package need to have to qualify as collaboration software? The short answer is that any tool which enables team members regardless of their location to communicate and share ideas qualifies as collaboration software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Online chat, video conferencing and message board are the basic communication tools needed in any collaboration software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But a good collaboration software goes even further and provides interactive whiteboard and document collaboration in order to be an effective collaboration tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The need for communication tools like online chat is obvious, but why we do need an interactive whiteboard and document collaboration you might ask?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The key to collaboration is not only verbal communication but also visual communication and brainstorming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By working together online on a document or brainstorming on a whiteboard regardless of the location of team members, the productivity goes up. Good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/collaboration-software-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaboration software<\/a> tries to bring all these features into one place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So what constitutes a good online collaboration software? I have listed the most important features and functions needed in collaboration software with a brief description below:<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1-Online Chat<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">During any phase of the project from setting goals to development and testing, the team should be able to communicate in real time with each other. If the team is located in one physical facility, the chat and conversations are encouraged to be face to face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But when team members are working from several places (remote work), an online chat which archives\u00a0all conversations between the team members is a Godsend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If the chat allows group conversation, it will be a much more effective tool indeed. <a href=\"https:\/\/hangouts.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Hangout<\/a>\u00a0is a great\u00a0example of this. Binfire also has a great built-in group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/communication\/\">chat<\/a>\u00a0available on all pages.\u00a0You can also consider <a href=\"https:\/\/sceyt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using chat SDK<\/a> to add a chat function to your existing app and simplify the communication between the team \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2-Message Board<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For those cases that conversations will last for days and many people participate in them, a message board is essential. The ability to post questions or status reports is required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Team members should be able to post comments and attach files if needed. There are tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slack<\/a> which do a good job as a messaging app, but when message board is an integral part of the work management application, it is much more effective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Binfire has its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/user-guide\/message-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message board<\/a> which will be enhanced in the coming weeks\u00a0to be even better than slack.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3-Online Videoconferencing<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Video conferencing is another great online collaboration tool. Skype and Google hangout are good examples. In Binfire we have not implemented video conferencing yet, but it is in our plans to integrate video conferencing in our project management software.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">4-Interactive whiteboard<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For brainstorming with remote workers, nothing beats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/interactive-whiteboard-collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive whiteboard<\/a>. Binfire has one of the best whiteboards on the market today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Not only everybody can draw and write on the board, they can also post images and manipulate them right from the board. Each project could have as many whiteboards as needed. The content of the whiteboard could be downloaded as an image file.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">5-Online document collaboration<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Document collaboration is an absolute essential for any team working on projects. Binfire uses Google Docs and Dropbox plus our own markup tool for PDF and image files. Soon we will support word, excel and powerpoint files too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can mark up documents collaboratively with your team. The markup is automatically saved separately from the original file.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">6-Web 2.0 Social features- comment, like, tag, follow and star<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Web 2.0 social tools which are also called productivity tools enhance collaboration in the Facebook generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Features like\u00a0comments, likes, tags, follow and starring is a great way of collaborating online. Binfire supports a full set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/productivity-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">productivity\u00a0tools<\/a> for tasks, files, and bugs. In fact, most pages in Binfire implement productivity tools in the same familiar manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to use collaboration software effectively<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Just having a collaboration tool is not enough. Tools\u00a0should be used regularly and consistently by all team members to be effective and produce the desired results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you are managing projects you need to set rules how the team interacts and uses any\u00a0collaboration software. This is important, because the frequency a collaboration tool is used, affects how effective the team collaborates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It is best that everybody\u00a0in the team has access to all team members online to ask questions, make suggestion or brainstorm ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">As a manager, you should monitor the communication and the collaboration that is ongoing\u00a0in your team and leave comments, encouragement or\u00a0advice\u00a0when needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Why should project management software have collaboration tools?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We have already established that the\u00a0single most important factor in the success of projects is effective collaboration within teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Using a sports metaphor, a team of all a star players who\u00a0won&#8217;t get along\u00a0together and don&#8217;t back each other loses to teams with less talented players who\u00a0play as a team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The single most important trait that makes teams successful is the willingness by all members specialty the star developers\/contributors to collaborate with their colleague.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The second factor is to have the right tools and procedures to be able to collaborate effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Although there are many great collaboration tools in the market today that provide one of the above collaboration function, we believe the best way for these tools to be effective is\u00a0when they are all integrated with the project management software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Why do you have to sign up for five or six different applications? When all you need is found in one work management application used every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Another factor for integrating these tools in one online collaboration software is that\u00a0they all will\u00a0have access to same data stored in the application&#8217;s database. So they can seamlessly provide additional information to the user anytime needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">An API can&#8217;t do this effectively and in a timely manner. One of the biggest issues with API integration is when one vendor changes the application and its interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In many instances, this breaks the interface between the app and other applications. We at Binfire believe in Apple Corp&#8217;s \u00a0approach. 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