Comments on: Project support tool – your input would be appreciated!

By: david coxon

david coxon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:54:34 +0000

Sounds like you are looking to achieve quite a lot Justin, and its not all that clear from your blog post what exactly your after. But it sounds like you are looking to build a support network. Are you aiming this at a particular business sector, for example codeworks do a great job in the digital / creative market place - i'm not sure that this should be applied across multiple sectors though as needs are so different.

I also think what you are describing is a portal. These only work if there are enough members with enough interest and enough motivation to keep them going, which means there need be a real need and not an existing support network in place, with the NECC, business links, one north east etc, etc etc that you might find the market is already saturated.

In terms of the tools though, what you seem to be suggesting would have to be very flexible in order to work for lots of different types of company/industry working on very different projects and with very different supply situations. And it sounds like you are talking about support for small companies that aren't currently utilizing technologies very well, so it sounds like you'd be adding to their problems by giving them this quite complex set up to do before they even start trying to resolve thier own issues.

Maybe it would be a better idea to create a searchable data repository / library for information on technologies, harware / software / services / suppliers with best practicles, step by step guides, white papers and case studies possibly even a range of templates and samples for the various technologies that companies could down load and use.

I'm not sure if that helps, regards Dave.

By: justingsouter

justingsouter — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:25:38 +0000

Matt / Paul

Many thanks for the feedback – met Andy from Huddle whilst in Texas. He's a man for facial hair, rather like me. Am checking it out right now…

Thanks!

By: Paul Lancaster

Paul Lancaster — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:06:18 +0000

Agreed. Huddle is very good for sharing info / files between team members who are geographically spread wide. Some kind of wiki for sharing info / resources publicly too.

Paul
Web Development Executive
www.shell-livewire.org

By: Matt Moran

Matt Moran — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:54:50 +0000

Huddle.net is well worth a look at.
I would definitely recommend Salesforce. Fantastic reporting tool and nice automation options too.
Joomla would also get my vote as basic CMS tool.

For all your online video needs I would *highly* recommend Quick.tv :)

This site might help you: http://startuptools.pbwiki.com/