Collaboration is the new normal in the workplace. No longer are employees expected to work cut off from one another, but instead are needed to work more closely together. Collaboration means improved efficiency and increased productivity, but only if you have the right tools for collaboration in the first place.

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10+ Online Collaboration Tools for Managing Remote Teams
10+ Online Collaboration Tools for Managing Remote Teams
Switching to remote work is a trend that dominates. The latest repo s indicate doubling the number of remote
workers in the recent 10 years. And despite the famous Yahoo ban in 2015 that forced the employees to return to the
o ces, the trend for remote jobs oppo unities keeps on expanding globally.
Among driving forces facilitating this growth, there are new managerial practices and innovative tech solutions that
enable top companies to increase hiring remote teams.
Lack of e ective tools, however, might hinder the productivity of your team so making the right choice in terms of
so ware that would empower the team collaboration, will save you from facing numerous challenges.
Below there is a list of 10 ultimate tools you will nd useful when working with a remote team.
06 Mar '2019 Denis Yanov
Table of Contents
1. ProProfs
2. TMetric
3. Troop Messenger
4. BlogIn

2. ProProfs
ProProfs Project is not an over the top project management so ware but has made its name in the market for it's easy
to use UI and simple features.
From sta ups to enterprises, anyone can use this robust project management tool to streamline work ow, boost team
communication, and improve team productivity.
ProProfs Project helps you to:
Create & track projects on one dashboard
4. BlogIn
5. GoToMeeting
6. Tameday
7. Wrike
8. ClickUp
9. Parabol
10. I Done This
11. Monday
12. Clarizen
13. Quip

3. TMetric
When you have to arrange the e ective collaboration of your remote team, the rst issue you need to address is
means of providing accuracy of time calculations.
TMetric is an e ective time tracking tool as it not only enables recording data on your work time in a single-click from
any gadget but also has additional functions coming handy for remote work mode:
Track time spent on tasks by each team member
Collaborate with your teams anytime, anywhere
Create insigh ul repo s in seconds
Bill your clients automatically
Creating an invoice
Generating various repo s (including the ones that will summarize your team pe ormance on
the project)
Se ing various pay rates for billable hours
O ine time tracking
Tagging projects for facilitating the work ow

4. This Timesheet so ware help allocate tasks to employees, track time spent, keep track of billable time to charge
customers, calculate payroll, create invoices and keep track of expenses. Here's a quick list of 10 di erent timesheet
so ware solutions and how they can help you manage your team be er.
Troop Messenger
When searching for more interactive team collaboration, Troop Messenger comes as a leader. It will satisfy any team’s
needs due to the simplicity of its implementation in an entrepreneurial environment.
Working as a fully- edged business communication pla orm, Troop Messenger gives you instant access to unlocking a
great number of functions:
Tagging projects for facilitating the work ow
Available on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS
Integrating with 100+ apps remote teams use in their work.
Instant messaging
Making video calls
Conducting video conferences
Sharing les
Desktop sharing

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Arranging work schedule within Troop Messenger will let you keep project info fully organized and, thus, secure all the
project pe ormance data.
BlogIn
BlogIn is beautifully simple internal blog and knowledge-sharing pla orm for teams of all sizes. The internal blog acts as
a central information hub or a ‘vi ual bulletin board’ for the company, allowing all employees to stay in the loop with
what’s going on in and around the o ce.
At the same time, the blog opens a new, transparent, two-way communication channel inside an organization, where
everyone can ask a question and get the information they need to make faster and sma er decisions.
The internal blog is intuitive and easy to use, so everyone can quickly get on board, which is one of the reasons why it
works so well as the internal communication tool.
Creating complex schedules.
Share internal news and knowledge
Improve internal communication
Share les
Boost company culture
Enables transparent, two-way communication

6. GoToMeeting
It is optimal in case you need a tool for arranging online meetings. It works both ways, with customers and team
members. The tool provides a high-quality connection and ranges as the most reliable so ware. With suppo assisting
you 24/7 and instant availability of joining or hosting the meeting options, you can sta a meetup, webinar, or a regular
call hassle-free.
GoToMeeting is an ultimate communication choice for remote teams. A click on the link across any device will be a
signal for activating various options:
Tameday
Sharing the screen
Making notes over the images
Recording the conversations
Se ings for adjusting the visibility of pa icipants’ faces

7. Tameday is the all-in-one workspace for teams and small businesses that are struggling to manage their projects and
workloads with various separate tools and email- Bringing everything into one place
Tameday helps you to:
Wrike
Get rid of using email for internal communication by using Tameday's built-in chat feature.
Keep your work and to-dos in one place within Projects,
Communicate and share les with your team who are working remotely.
Keep in contact with your clients by allowing them to see how projects are progressing,
Keep you on track with to-dos, discussions, project due dates and your own personal calendar.

8. Wrike is a pe ectly illustrative example of how to integrate a favorite task management tool with time tracking
so ware so that it could enhance your remote team productivity.
Wrike helps prioritize projects easily due to its intuitive design. It keeps all the info on tasks you pe orm. Additionally,
when applying integrations in Wrike, you can:
ClickUp
It is a productivity pla orm that helps you create tasks and plan your projects. While implementing ClickUp, you have
the unique oppo unity to organize the sca ered tasks into the unbroken work ow.
With ClickUp, you get the abundance of options pe aining to:
Estimate the project resources with precision,
Adjust timelines for speci c tasks,
Reassign tasks to accommodate urgent requests
Tailor your tasks to projects goals.
commenting on tasks,

9. Parabol
Parabol is so ware not bloated with extra functions as its primary goal is to provide your team with ‘free online
retrospectives’. This pa of project management practice is crucial for fu her planning and be er estimation of the
coming projects. This tool provides transparency of team priorities and accountability for task pe ormance.
It is a pe ect tool for remote work enabling cross-functional cooperation within a team by synching tasks in a
dashboard on a daily basis. With Parabol, you can:
I Done This
advanced task storing,
agenda creating
keeping your data as secure as you choose by regulating privacy se ings.
plan the day/week,
mark the milestones upon a task completion (for monitoring the team progress),
edit org cha s
send retrospectives (‘summary of a meeting’) email to your team

10. It is a tool suitable for remote teams of any size. It is of pa icular interest to managers who can monitor top team
accomplishments in real-time, and, hence, save tons of time on holding meetings.
Applying this so ware, your team gets access inside the app to:
Monday
commenting on their tasks,
generating word clouds marking the most frequent task components,
noti cations of a reminder email (‘What have you done today?’) for sharing the daily
accomplishments
"visuals," which breakdown accomplished tasks with color coding

11. Suitable for any team size, it is a tool that will let you plan your tasks on a timeline so that nothing will fall between slots,
point assignees and, thus, enhance accountability, and collaborate instantly for increased business productivity.
The featured Monday options that you will surely like include the oppo unity:
Clarizen
It is a team management solution designed to facilitate remote teams collaboration. The so ware provides
instrumental features to unite resources for more productive planning.
to update the status on the task,
to choose a customizable template for your sprints from the impressively big selection,
Email noti cations – get noti ed by email

12. Implementing this tool means that your team can apply:
Quip
It is a productivity suite that unites spreadsheets and documents into the shared folders.
It is pe ect in terms of goal se ings for your remote team. It facilitates collaboration by sending reminders and instant
sharing documents from one place. Your team will not have to dig deep to retrieve the documents.
Quip is accessible across any device so that you and your team can work from any place. Applying Quip, you can
create:
repo ing templates,
creating their own dashboards,
tracking tasks of various kinds in real-time
adjusting the time and resource allocation to current business goals in terms of project
pro tability
Project plans
Territory plans
Checklists

13. You can work over multiple projects: the sidebar is available from any screen in Quip so you can easily access your
work, your favourites, and your teammates.
Wrapping it up:
A trend for global cooperation and delivering your service internationally are motivating factors for many companies to
increase remote hiring. With the tech tools presented in our list, remote team collaboration is unlimited due to enabling
uninterrupted work ow, e ective communication and full accountability of the work result metrics.
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