Basecamp: A Project Management Tool

Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets. Basecamp, a web based project collaboration / management tool is a creation of the renowned web design/usability company 37signals. Since 2004 small businesses, non-profits and entrepreneurs have looked to Basecamp to run their projects. As soon as you have more than one client you will need something to organize your thoughts, to-dos, important dates, and collaborations. BASECAMP is that tool.

Basecamp is being heralded as the most useful web app ever used and is fundamentally changing the way business activities are being managed safe, secure and reliable. Tens of thousands of small businesses, agencies, and entrepreneurs worldwide have come to depend on Basecamp to get their projects done. Basecamp works with a variety of iPhone apps, third-party billing/invoicing tools, mock-up review software, time tracking tools, widgets, and more.

For years project management software was about charts, graphs, and stats. Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration. Basecamp brings people together.

Praising Basecamp, Jeffrey Kalmikoff Creative Director of skinnyCorp writes, Gone are the days of post-it note reminders, dry-erase milestones, and endless CCing. Basecamp allows us to increase our project load with the confidence of knowing that we won't need to increase our staff to manage the work.