Trello - Simple Collaboration with Cards and free

April 13, 2012 | article by Ken Thompson in Online Collaboration Tools (44)

I have been invited to participate in a software beta test which is using an online tool called Trello to coordinate test feedback. Trello is very simple and powerful and sits halfway between a forum and a wiki. It is a great tool for capturing and structuring feedback from a community in a really easy way and very compatible with a bioteams style of working.

Trello. Organise Anything.

The first thing you do in Trello is to create a "board" which is simply a topic you wish to engage people on.

Next you invite people to join your board.

Once they have joined they can create cards, vote on other people cards and assign cards to people for action. When you click on a card you can see text or a list or a picture or any kind of web link.Trello runs over the web and also on smartphones and tablets.

There are so many potential uses for Trello - here are some which the developers suggest:

Event Plannning

Software Development

Personal To-Dos

Publishing

Recruiting and Consulting

In terms of pricing the developers say that Trello "will be free forever but that they may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that's free today will be free tomorrow and forever."

Heres a nice short Trello video on youtube to get you started:

About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development. .

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What teams can learn from wolves

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If you think that there is not much human teams can learn from nature think again! Temple Grandin in her amazing book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (p303-307) puts forward the incredible theory that early humans only became today’s successful homo sapiens because they learned to act and think like the wolves they co-habited with.

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