Think about this. You are working on a design and you team is scattered through different locations. Its necessary that you have to collaborate their efforts and ideas so that everyone is aware of what others are doing and get inputs and ideas from each other.
Moreover, you need everyone going in the same direction and this becomes difficult when your team is situated in various geographic locations. Well, if you are a big company and can afford to have video or teleconferencing facilities you can see each other and talk to them.
But, think about sharing ideas. If your product or work depends heavily on design ideas and sending email and faxes back and forth, you might want to check this collaboration toll provided by ConceptShare®.
We have already blogged about them in our post INTERESTING WEB 2.0 APPS | PART II. Founded in 2006 by creative professionals seeking to solve their own collaboration problem ConceptShare had an immediate advantage that allowed them to establish themselves as the leader in this emerging technology category. Today the ConceptShare team includes a mix of creative professionals, technology innovators and business professionals.
ConceptShare® is the first company to deliver a visual collaboration platform that scales to any team, project or workflow, regardless of size or industry. They are eliminating the clutter and chaos that defines traditional feedback mechanisms such as email, blogs/wikis and real-time web-conferencing. For the first time creative professionals and organizations can work in lock step; across teams, locations and time zones. And as a result, produce competitive advantage in the form of stakeholder alignment, improved productivity and shipping projects on time and on spec.
The team has designed, developed and implemented a solution that has won the trust and confidence of tens of thousands of users around the world. ConceptShare is used by organizations of all sizes; from freelancers to some of the biggest brands in the world and across a wide range of industries.
Here are some of the updated / most useful features provided by them. ConceptShare® enables creative professionals to get feedback on visual assets with the responsiveness and experience of a desktop application. The tool is used by thousands of creative teams and big brands around the world; to share, communicate & collaborate on creative work.
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NEW EDITIONS
They offer four different editions, scalable for small teams to big organizations, with file format support for flat images, videos, interactive flash, web pages, .pdfs, etc.
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ADVANCED COPY REVIEW
For Microsoft Office and PDF documents, you can search for, select, highlight text, and annotate using text specific proofing tools.
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INTERACTIVE FLASH SUPPORT
Interactively review and comment on Adobe Flash assets with a breadcrumb feature so you can easily capture a sequence of actions on screen, mark them up and make comments.Efficiently find assets using powerful search, filtering and sorting functions. Navigate assets visually in Grid View with dynamically sizable thumbnails or by properties in List View. Use the thumbnail panel while in preview mode to quickly browse through various assets in the same folder.
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HDR SUPPORT
High Dynamic Range images, you can preview and comment on .hdr images by stepping through and reviewing exposures.
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ENHANCED VIDEO SUPPORT
Enhanced video support by adding preview and playback from a video storyboard as well as the ability to make comments that span across multi-frames.
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EYEDROPPER & RULER TOOL
New annotation tools to grab specific colours and find specific measurements.
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DIRECT NOTIFICATIONS
Receive and reply to comment threads via e-mail. With a powerful and configurable notifications system, ConceptShare ensures that you, your team, and other stakeholders are updated in real-time of any significant review and approval events whether or not they are logged into the system. You can set account defaults and allow individual users to configure their preferences so that they are notified in real-time of events that matter to them.
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REVIEW SUMMARY
Generate a PDF report of all mark-ups and comments made on an asset. One of the most popular tools in the ConceptShare system, the PDF Summary collates an audit trail of all activity related to an individual asset, or groups of assets. Through a checkbox system, configure what information you want to publish in your PDF Summary; from when files were uploaded, to comments that were made, to a summary of approvals granted and declined on an individual asset, easily share the PDF Summary with stakeholders that are not enrolled in the review process. Reference the PDF Summary for completed projects if there is a discrepancy between the deliverable and the expectation.
ConceptShare is useful and is a very powerful tool for visual designers. If you feel like this is the tool you are looking for, have a lot of team collaborations and design brainstorms to be done between you and other people, then you can sign-up for ConceptShare here. They offer 15-30 days free trial of the tool.
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