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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
QuickTopic: Free Bulletin Boards (Message Boards) and Collaborative Document Review Groupware http://www.quicktopic.com/
There's a major gap in collaboration tools between plain old email and more complex, long-term solutions like multi-threaded web bulletin boards or mailing lists, and QuickTopic fills that gap. For any substantial group discussion, email is cumbersome. A conversation thread is scattered among email in-boxes, and there's no central respository to capture it. Heavyweight collaboration systems require complex setup and registration and/or learning by participants. QuickTopic fills the gap by providing a super-easy single-topic web forum that's also fully email-enabled. You can start a topic in ten seconds, and participants can use just email to participate, or they can use the web board, or both as the need arises. It's like an instant mailing list with a web-based archive, or it's like an easy web forum that works seamlessly with email. Each topic also has its own RSS feed, accessible by simply appending ".rss" to the topic's URL! This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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