Quick Pitch: A free, customizable SaaS Intranet with a Facebook-like environment that helps businesses, entrepreneurs, agencies and freelancers share and work better.
Genius Idea: Remindo is a free hosted intranet-like solution for businesses focused on improving communication and collaboration. Using Remindo, teams can share files, discuss and plan projects and share files with clients or contract workers.
Part intranet, part project management tool, Remindo is designed as a way for businesses to manage their day-to-day communications and keep track of projects and milestones.
The service, which is free (although total storage is now limited to 3 GB and paid pricing plans with enhanced features are going to be available soon), requires users to sign up using their business address. Every other person that signs up under that domain (say, CompanyX.com) will instantly be able to share files, send messages and share project calendars with one another.
Remindo has taken a page from Facebook and Twitter: it offers users the ability to use status updates. Similar to Google Wave, Remindo lets users create archived conversations assigned to a specific project or task and then attach files into those conversations for back and forth discussion.
One of the things I like about Remindo is that it is easy to invite outsiders into your own network. Lots of intranets are limited to domain users only -- which makes sense in a lot of cases -- but if you want to bring a client into a conversation and share ideas with them or share files directly, or if you are working with a contract or freelance worker, this can make the collaboration process difficult.
Remindo has a solid, streamlined interface and a variety of tools to make communication and project management easy and more efficient.
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