Recently, we’ve been working to collaborate more closely with the GCDI Fellows. As part of that process, we’ve been looking at what sort of collaborative tools we can use. We’ve experimented a bit with Basecamp and are thinking about trying out Slack (I’ve used it a bit). The Social Mediums spend most of our week working closely with our own programs, but our strength is in our shared knowledge bases and these kinds of tools help us keep in touch and share solutions that is much more dynamic and useful than a Google doc sitting in a folder in the ether.

This post from Professor Hacker runs down some of the most popular collaborative tools.– Paul, English Social Media Fellow