There are a multitude of applications to facilitate communications: from personal communications to business or public communications. The range is from email, to facebook, twitter, steemit, chat, bb, etc. There are applications for collaborative work, from project to information management.
Viva has adopted Basecamp as a collaborative tool for CrownHolders. This application allows more structured communications than a chat room. Here are the main features.
Consultation / answers
The menu consists of the following elements which are mainly elements of consultation:
- Last Activity shows the messages published in descending chronological order while Hey! presents them by read/unread and by subjects.
- Ping allows a personal chat in the manner of an SMS while Campfire is a chat with everyone present on the channel.
- Reports produces activity reports.
- Find is an interesting function because it allows you to search for a word, an expression, a person, present in a document or in the whole application.
Work zone
By accessing to the Team or Projects, we enter in the work area which includes several activities, each of which is open to guests only. Each operation can send a notification to members.
- It is in the Message Board that the titles and contents of the subjects
- The Campfire is a chat reserved for the members of the team or the project.
- The Schedule allows you to set deadlines for an event by selecting the people to be invited.
- The To-dos allows you to assign tasks to people with deadlines by adding all the necessary notes.
- Docs & Files allows to deposit documents of any type: texts, spreadsheet, images, pdf from your computer or from Google doc. You can also write a document in the built-in editor.
- Check-ins allows you to automate a reminder and receive responses in one post. Ex.Will you be present at the meeting?
- Email forwards. Basecamp provides a space that brings together all the e-mails of a project in one place, avoiding the need to search them in your personal e-mails.