Project Management

activeCollab

I’ve been working on a review of activeCollab for two days now and planned to finish it up today. However, today I found out that Derek from 5thirtyone.com did a review on it last year and recently compared activeCollab to Basecamp and GoPlan. Both articles are great and give plenty of details on the plus of activeCollab. I personally have never used BaseCamp however I planned to before I came across activeCollab and like the thought of everything being on my server (and free/opensource). For anybody who does freelance work or uses BaseCamp (or others like it) you really should check out activeCollab (assuming you have server resources, although it doesn’t take much). It does require php5 though (which shouldn’t be a major problem as most hosts have it). I’ve been running activeCollab for a few months now but only recently started really using it with my clients (the biggest one being the Lawton Soccer Club). Before we went back and forth on emails and phone calls about the site and its hard to keep things organized and took to much time for me to go through emails and find tasks he wanted done. activeCollab took a huge load off me and makes things much easier. Its also easy to customize to match your company site or just a fresh design. Keep an eye on the activeCollab site and blog as the big release is coming soon with a load of new features.