Collaborative Computing

• How to Live Stream a Meeting

  Ever host a sales presentation, seminar or conference and wish customers who couldn't fly in for the event could tune in anyway? Small businesses are getting...

  Michelle V. Rafter

• Meeting on the Web: Which Tools to Use?

  Which collaboration tool should your business turn to for meetings on the Web? And what’s the difference between a webinar, webcast, and Web conference? Ho...

  Jean Thilmany

• Collaborate via Your BlackBerry

  The BlackBerry has proven its worth to business due to its ability to provide mobile e-mail services. But the device is also being used now for mobile collab...

  Marc Saltzman

• Best Web Conferencing Tools for Your Buck

  Web conferencing has become essential in the age of higher travel costs, lower budgets, and online collaboration. Here's how to use Web conferencing tools to...

  Jean Thilmany

• Are 500 Contacts Too Many?

  Who's worthy of going in your contact database in Outlook, your cell phone, your social network, etc.? What should be the criteria so you don't end up with 5...

  Renee Oricchio

• Business Uses for Twitter

  Microblogging tools like Twitter are enabling direct communication with customers. Should you be developing a Twitter strategy?

  Jodi Mardesich

• Tech Talk: Project Management Software Coordinates Builders' Timelines

  A commercial kitchen designer and builder uses project management software to ensure its teams are working together efficiently.

  Elizabeth Wasserman

• Making the Most of Your Intranet

  Lower costs and ease of use mean companies of any size can create their own intranets. Here’s how to get the most from this technology.

  Minda Zetlin

• Virtual Conferences: The Next Best Thing to Being There?

  The virtual conference business is booming, as Internet connections get faster and real-world travel gets tougher. Here’s how to make the most of not reall...

  Minda Zetlin

• Tech Talk: Using Wikis

  Delivering large project files to clients via e-mail became cumbersome for the employees at Write2Market. Here, CTO Miles Thomason tells Inc. Technology how ...

  Elizabeth Wasserman

• Low-Cost -- and Free -- Collaboration Tools

  Project management, shared calendars, contact lists, and other collaborative software can be pricey. Companies such as Zoho, Yugma, and Google aim to provide...

  Bill Pfleging

• Don't Fear the Wiki! Business Can Benefit

  Fear is one of the obstacles keeping businesses from realizing productivity gains by using internal wikis. But the business gains -- collaboration, informed ...

  Mary O. Foley

• Collaboration 101: Why You Need These Tools

  Collaboration tools are becoming widely available today as major technology players join start-ups to offer new solutions to connect remote workers in just a...

  Bill Pfleging

• Connecting Multiple Offices

  Small and mid-size businesses no longer need to struggle with connecting satellite locations and ensuring proper collaboration and access.

  Todd Wasserman

• Getting Closer: Collaboration Software

  A new breed of collaboration software lets far-flung employees work as though they're face to face.

  Renee Oricchio

• What A Plog Can Do for Business

  Want to collaborate on a project, easily and inexpensively, over the Web without the world watching, this tool’s for you.

  Caroline Waxler

• I'll Be Watching You

  New software makes it possible to monitor employees and clients. It's not as creepy as it sounds.

  David H. Freedman

• Buzzwords: Plog

  What a plog can do for you.

  Ian Ybarra

• Meetings Go Virtual

  Web conferencing and other collaboration technologies -- tools that help people work with one another through their computers -- have become more available a...

  Fred Bayles

• Mission Control

  What every entrepreneur needs: a high-tech instrument panel designed just for your company.

  Kevin Ferguson

• 2003 Tech Buying Guide: Video Gives Face Time

  Report from business owners on the latest in videoconferencing setups.

  Inc Staff

• Only Connect

  If Lief Morin had his way, nobody in his company would telecommute. Now he's fighting back with technology.

  Christopher Caggiano

• IM Is Here. RU Ready 2 Try It?

  Instant messages -- those cryptic little on-line conversations -- are traveling from teenagers' computers into businesses like yours.

  Anne Stuart

• A Shock to the System

  Doug Hyde, president and founder of Green Mountain Energy Resources, found that incorporating an extranet and data warehouse required him to relearn his own ...

  Emily Esterson

• Are Your Customers Being Served?

  A new kind of software helps you address the concerns of both your customers and your business.

  Srikumar S. Rao

• Cut-Rate Collaboration

  Free intranet services provide a simple way for smaller companies to communicate with employees, customers, and suppliers.

  Mary Kwak

• The Business Portal

  In my last column I talked about the importance of vertical portals (vortals) in creating...

  Thomas Koulopoulos

• The Editorial Oui

  Need to communicate document changes quickly? This product can turn your copier into a networked scanner for paperless document distribution.

  Ilan Mochari

• A Suite Deal

  Trouble finding office space? This business created its own Greg Steckler has been building residential log cabins for 16 years....

  Ilan Mochari