DISQUS

Daniel McGonagle @ http://dani · 1 year ago

Wow, this is timely.

I was just wondering what openID was for and whether it was sometihng worth getting and this post hit my RSS reader right when I was thinking about that.

Thanks for the backpack post, I'm getting to the point where I'll need one just to hold all my thoughts, lol

Dan
http://marketersrelief.com

jbrown · 1 year ago

Like Daniel said above, perfect timing...

I had been playing around with building a similar model based off of Wordpress. I wanted to have an "internal blog" for myself, my employees, bookkeeper and our outside sales reps to be able to communicate and collaborate. You could do a lot of the same features (but definitely not all) through some combination of wordpress and gmail/outlook but it's worth it in my opinion to have it all in one system and to have everything work so smoothly.

What I'm really impressed with is the pricing plans. For a small business like mine that may only have 6 or so users, it's just not worth the time involved to try and setup some other system or code something myself. Plus, having the openID to integrate with HighRise should be nice too. I'll definitely be signing up for that soon.

Chuck · 1 year ago

John,
I got really excited when I learned the Vision to Venture conference is coming to Seattle, but unfortunately I'm not a woman so I will not be able to attend. Oh well. Are you planning on doing any other conferences in Seattle?

Bryan (Come & Hit a Home R · 1 year ago

I like this backpack. It has helped me out in numerous ways. I can review what I searched and go back and bookmark it. Thanks for the tip.

Rich · 1 year ago

Hmm, from checking out both sites I'm really not getting how the two (backpack and basecamp) are fundamentally different. Time to sign up for free trials and play. :-) Thanks for the info.

Jason Fried · 1 year ago

Basecamp and Backpack are entirely different products for different purposes.

Basecamp is a web-based project management tool. You can use it to collaborate with clients on projects. Set deadlines, assign tasks, share project files, discuss project details, and manage multiple projects at the same time. You can think of Basecamp as a huge filing cabinet with different folders for each project you're working on. Each folder contains messages, tasks, files, and milestones for that specific project.

Backpack is an intranet and group calendar tool. It takes just 30 seconds to get started. Use Backpack to share information, knowledge, files, schedules, to-do lists and more inside your organization. Post company-wide announcements too. You can think of Backpack as a cork bulletin board where you'd share stuff with your team. Tack up notes, a calendar, internal forms, announcements, etc.

Josh · 1 year ago

Hey, thank you so much. I was looking for this information.Good work.

John Jantsch · 1 year ago

Chuck,

I'll be in Seattle at the MS Small Business Summit www.sbsummit.com on March 24th

Ellen McAlpine · 1 year ago

I think that using two apps is a bit confusing, not to say mare. My team is perfectly happy with a tool that lets us both store our documents and plan your tasks. It's very convenient to have everything in one place. No need to jump between the tools.

Avin · 1 year ago

Thanks for the info John.

I started using Basecamp a couple of weeks ago for project management between me, my outsourced team of developers and our clients.

I can't get over how great their services are!

Radoslav Kostadinov · 1 year ago

It seems there are many other online personal organizers, that I didn't knew before. But thanks to the hint of Cameron Moll, a web designer I admire, I found Netvibes and it does it all perfectly for me. There are thousands of widgets you can add to your account for free (including calendars, to-do-lists, memos, RSS feeds etc). The widgets you add, you can drag and drop anywhere on the screen, where you want them to appear. If you create many tabs, you can have one tab showing a screen of your personal tasks for today, another tabs for news, weather, automatic email checking etc. It's also a great service, once you take a little time to customize it according your needs. Sharing information between different accounts/people is not a problem. And they are constantly developing it further.

Jeff Pelletier · 1 year ago

I realize this is an old post - But here is a Case Study from the 37signals Backpack Product blog on how my company Basetwo Media uses Backpack.

We rely very heavily on Backpack, Basecamp and Highrise for almost everything we do.