Group Chat and Internal Communication
- Popular group and 1:1 chat tool
- Information organized by channel
- Easy user adoption and cuts down on email
- Can invite external users as guests and/or create shared channels with other organizations
- Plans + pricing – $6-13 per user per month
Video Conferencing
- If you use Gsuite in your organization, you already have this. Free and easy to use.
- Has video, but participants can also call in by phone and join voice-only
- Multiple meetings can happen at the same time via different meeting links
- If your organization already uses Slack, you already have the calling feature built in
- Supports video and voice-only calls
- Free version or up to $20/mo for all features – plans + pricing
- Supports video and voice-only calls
- Free version has a 40 minute time limit on meetings with three or more participants
Conference Line
- Conference line (no video)
- Participants can join via phone or computer
- Free version supports up to 10 participants
- Pricing and plans
GSuite
- Google’s suite of products for businesses, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Hangouts Meet
- A good all-in-one solution if you need a full suite of integrated cloud-based services
- Plans and pricing
Cloud-Based File Sharing and Collaboration
Store, share, collaborate and edit documents and files.
- If your organization uses Gsuite, you already have this
- Setup guide
- 30 day free trial
- Plans + pricing
Virtual Office
- A virtual representation of an office setting, with avatars for each employee so everyone can see who’s working and what meetings are taking place
- Integrates with Google Hangouts and Zoom for video conferencing
- Supports voice calls, screen sharing and group and 1:1 chat
Electronic Signatures + Agreements
- Legally-binding e-signature platform
- Free version, or up to $40/month for all features
- Plans + pricing
Password Manager + Vault App
- Secure password storage and sharing
- Free 14 day trial
- $3-6 per user per month
- Plans + pricing
Additional Resources
- How to switch to remote working quickly for both employers and employees – Forbes
- 15 questions about remote work, answered – Harvard Business Review
- 8 strategies to set up remote work during the coronavirus outbreak – Fast Company
- VoIP conference line
- Integrates with CRMs for sales teams
- Appear.in plug-in allows for direct video conferencing
- Large suite of integrations
- Pricing and plans
- Integrated collaboration tool for remote teams
- Includes settings to help manage work-life balance
- Pricing and plans
- Timekeeping system for at-home work
- Feeds data into enterprise system and dashboard
- Pricing and plans
- SFTP file sharing
- Integrates across 11 major cloud servers
- Dynamic integration, particularly for OSx devices
- Web application for project management
- Assign tasks and workflows
- Agile PM methodology (waterfalls, kanbans, etc.)
- Team resources and workflows, PM dashboard
- A lot of integration options
- Pricing and plans
