Basecamp is an online project management application to help your team keep track of collaborative projects. With Basecamp, you can plan projects, set milestones and create to-do lists for yourself and for other people on your team. Basecamp makes it easy to connect remotely with other team members, so you can work together even if your offices are across the country. You can use it to send project-related messages and files, or to chat with co-workers. Plus, there’s a whiteboard for virtual brainstorming sessions. Sign up for a “Plus” plan or higher and you get time tracking, too.

What makes Basecamp so useful? Let’s say, for example, that you work for an international company with offices in the US and India. When it’s 3 o’clock on the East Coast of the US, it’s 1 o’clock in the morning in India. Rather than expect your Indian colleagues to stay up in the wee hours of the morning, you can use Basecamp to manage the projects you work together on.  You can send messages, exchange files and exchange ideas from a central location.

Even if your colleagues are right across the hall, Basecamp still provides a convenient way to communicate with other members of your team without having to leave your desk.

Basecamp has an attractive user interface that’s also fully customizable to reflect your company’s brand or your personal tastes. When you enter a project, everything you need to see to manage that project is right at your fingertips. Basecamp also integrates with an impressive number of other web apps and mobile apps. The underlying concept behind Basecamp isn’t unique. There are other project management programs available. However, the array of features and services that this product offers makes it stand out.

Our Rating of Basecamp

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