The folks at 37Signals rolled out some major upgrades to it’s trusty Backpack service today, repositioning it as a small business intranet with a host of enhanced features and multi-user capabilities.
Added are shared calendars, the newsroom dashboard, messaging capabilities and multi-user reminders. While always quite handy as a personal information repository, the new multi-user capabilities turn Backpack into a real small business information powerhouse or even a lightweight project manager.
Read about the new features or take a tour.
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This is really a nice coincidence… I’ve been using Backpack and since it wasn’t good with GTD (Getting Things Done), I developed Nozbe (www.nozbe.com) and now we both launched our multi-user accounts in the same time.
However in Nozbe I take a different approach, it’s not multi-user, it’s multi-accounts - so each user has separate account but “under one roof” so it’s just easier for these users to share projects together, they share messages, have one “business” login screen, etc.
But the idea is similar - you buy one multi-account for your company and let everyone in your firm to get things done… together.
I think the approach 37signals did with Backpack is good as a company intranet… Nozbe is meant to be a collaborative tool to get things done… thus I took a little different approach to the multi-user thing.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your visit and your comments. I received your Nozbe for Business email announcement the other day and am intrigued. I actually have it queued up for an upcoming review. I think your distinction between the 2 products is a good one.
SB
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