Building a Collaboration Website

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I am a newbie and just joined Concrete5. The software is incredible. Thank you!

I am finishing up a pilot site that will include a collaboration or project management section / page.

What are folks using for this purpose?

Anyone integrating Zoho projects, Basecamp, etc.http://online-project-management-review.toptenreviews.com/....

My level of project management will be general, or basic: project, project description, milestones, tasks, resources, etc.

Thanks, ChadStrat for all the great "Add-Ons," ProBlog and Social. I am now reviewing the ProEvents Add-on, the Contact Directory Add-on by Concrete5 and the Mailing List Add-on by Tony.

Thanks

HeartStrong07
 
lookstechnical replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
lookstechnical
Having booked some time off from client work ive just started getting things in house sorted. one of the things i'm working on at the moment is a getSignOff / basecamp style add on for concrete,

will be very basic level of project management with clients - projects-milestones- updates -comments etc

Richard
Looks Technical
HeartStrong07 replied on at Permalink Reply
HeartStrong07
LooksTechnical,

That's an excellent idea. especially if it snycs with ProEvents or the Calendar Add-ons.

Please keep me posted.

Edit: working on my final page, going to link in Zoho projects or a team collaboration page

Attached is my current member page that also links to Zoho Project Management
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HeartStrong07
Attached is my current member page that also links to Zoho Project Management
MaxL replied on at Permalink Reply
MaxL
@HeartStrong07
Have also used numerous Zoho products - they actually overall are awesome, but in the greater pool of awesomeness ended up being useless for me.
My clients want specific deliverables.
For my own admin I want minimal admin.

For me this means ProjectPier for project management and detailed time reporting (if required).
Otherwise, the rest of the biz in invoiced through WHMCS.
MaxL replied on at Permalink Reply
MaxL
@HeartStrong07
Don't pay for stuff you don't have to, or that is no better than what you can get free.

Widest used application for this is BaseCamp - very useful collaborative and project management tool - costs a heap and ActiveCollab is better and costs even more, ongoing.....

FREE opensource alternative is ProjectPier - even has a BaseCamp skin - can't tell the dif mostly. :)

Many other alternatives that will cost you heaps and in the end you won't be any more satisfied. Clients are happier with this than even advanced options like LiquidPlanner - go for gold with PP.

ProjectPier even has time tracking and you mark off what is billable or not - as well as to be billed or billed, per project, client, task, etc...

Heaps of options - great - better than the paid options.

I use WHMCS for billing, as we also host, etc...
johnmbrimelow replied on at Permalink Reply
johnmbrimelow
Based on your posts I just created a project pier site...I now have the main site folder and in that folder, the project pier folder...I'm wondering if I can install a Concrete5 theme in the main site folder without compromising the project pier folder?
johnmbrimelow replied on at Permalink Reply
johnmbrimelow
Based on your posts I just created a project pier site...I now have the main site folder and in that folder, the project pier folder...I'm wondering if I can install a Concrete5 theme in the main site folder without compromising the project pier folder?
jvansanten replied on at Permalink Reply
Don't do that. You'll almost certainly run into a conflict with the main executable file of both applications there.

Because this is a separate application, not an add-on to Concrete5, you'll need to do some programming to integrate the two.
johnmbrimelow replied on at Permalink Reply
johnmbrimelow
Thanks! That makes sense...I appreciate your feedback.