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Home offices can benefit from business productivity tools such as those that enable online collaboration with colleagues and clients, and those that boost hardware capabilities.
Collaboration tools manage communication, conferencing and coordination of tasks. Collaborative communication applications features include synchronous conferencing, telephony, application sharing, web conferencing, instant messaging, data conferencing, e-mail server, video conferencing, electronic meeting, and faxing.
Over one million people in 80,000 plus companies globally are Yammering within their organizations. Yammer is a freemium micro social network service comparable to Twitter.
Besides communication management, project management collaboration technology often features resource management, conferencing, application sharing, electronic meeting systems, email, voice mail, document management, wikis, evaluation and survey features.
Management collaboration technology automates group or social tasks. Typically, electronic calendars, workflow, extranets, online documents, knowledge management, social software, application sharing, prediction markets, and project management are prime features.
Free cross platform groupware EGroupware is an open source application. It enables multilingual web-based, integrated, mobile, or PDA collaboration. Primary features include a calendar, contact manager, web mail, task and note log, resource management, file manager, site manager, time tracker, wiki, bug tracking, and knowledge management.
Other productivity technology focuses on boosting brainstorming power and boosting hardware capability. Mindomo is a free, online brainstorming application using mind mapping. TonidoPlug is a compact, inexpensive, and energy-efficient server gadget for the home office computer. TonidoPlug enables access to music, media, applications, and files from any computer using any browser. It stores 512MB of flash, 512 MB of DDR2 memory, and operates on a Gigabit Ethernet network. Amazon’s Cloud Drive offers freemium online storage that reviews praise as best suited for storing music files.
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