I has benefited from teleworking for years. I chose to work from home at least one or two days when my company just started the flexible work program in 2002. At first it wasn’t very easy for me and my colleagues to get used to it. But thanks to the new technology, it has made my work so much easier and it seems to be more recommendatory than 6 years ago.
I made a list for my friend concluding some online meeting and collaboration tools that a new teleworker may need. I hope you would find it helpful too.
1. Skype / Freeware
http://www.skype.com/
One of the best tool for free internet phone calls. Everybody should’ve heard of it. It has the best voice quality among other IMs.
2. GoToMeeting / Shareware
http://www.gotomeeting.com/
It’s a professional web conferencing tool with good quality and multiple functions such as screen sharing and collaboration. I think it’s a good meeting solution especially when you are looking for meeting software with large group of attendee capacity. GoToMeeting however is a little bit pricey. After 30 days free trial, the monthly plan is $49/month.
3. Weboffice / Shareware
http://www.weboffice.com/
Weboffice is a web-based task management tool. You can share documents, calendars, and database on it. 30-day trial available, $59.95/mo to buy.
4. Gogrok / Freeware
http://www.gogrok.com/
Real-time collaboration tool. It has multi-user co-editing, application sharing, and screen sharing functions. Gogrok is free and handy. If you don’t need a big and pricey software to get the job done, Gogrok would be a good option for you.
5. Convenos / Shareware
http://www.convenos.com/
A web-based meeting and collaboration software. Convenos is trying to put everything you need for online collaboration into one single program such as whiteboard, polling, media sharing, and calendaring…etc. after 14 days free try out, it’ll be $30/mo for standard edition.