Online collaboration with Feng Office

17  Webmail
But branding isn’t vital for internal collaboration, whereas communication and content are. IMAP or POP email accounts may be added, giving you a webmail interface, but perhaps lacking the flexibility of the rival Chandler/Cosmo.

18 Tag
Like every other content type in Feng Office, email may be given user-generated tags, for filtering. Emails can also be assigned to a workspace and filtered by this classification.

19  Binary upload
Images and other files may be simply uploaded and used or linked anywhere within Feng Office. Files can be uploaded directly from websites, as well as from your PC.

20  Office suite
Creating simple office documents is easy through the editor tool, which should be familiar to anyone who’s used a blogging tool. However, sharing the editing with your team is the real feature here.

21 Drawing comments
Commenting on docs, locking for editing, moving around the document list, and a revision history all make documents a more valuable collaborative tool. Users can subscribe in order to see changes.

22 Presenting presentations
Creating, editing and sharing your presentations here with the project team, or different members of your company, enables those on the road to share product or client updates with staff at the office.

23 Awaiting reports
All this user-content is great, but more power is found with custom reports. Set the fields you want for reports on any of the objects: contacts, companies, workspaces, notes, documents, emails, tasks, milestones, events, web links, or users.

24 Get to work
Now we’re really ready to get some work done, so set yourself a milestone and get on with it. Better yet, set somebody else a milestone and go and make yourself a cup of coffee.

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