TeamApart Blog

Team Apart is thrilled to open our (virtual) doors to a few good beta testers.  Team Apart lets small workgroups create a shared website (we call them workspaces) with group video-chat and real-time collaboration tools (whiteboards, notepads, file-sharing, etc) for online meetings. Users create a persistent workspace that allows up to 4 people to video-chat simultaneously, with full video and audio. Whiteboards and notes can be downloaded and saved as a file, or can remain in your personal workspace for those times when you can’t all meet together at once. Here are some of the key features that we think makes Team Apart special:

• Team Apart works in real-time, so everyone sees the same thing at the same time – video conferencing, file sharing, whiteboarding, notes and more
• Team Apart is browser-based and requires no software download (we recommend having Flash 10)
• Team Apart is simple to use – create a workspace, send your team the URL and they simply click through to a shared workspace
• You can store persistent data (files, whiteboards, etc) in the cloud at your permanent workspace
• Best of all, Team Apart is free (not just for Beta, it really is free)

Team Apart is launching in Beta, and that’s for good reason.  We’ve made a valuable tool for online, remote collaboration (hence the name, “Team Apart.”  Clever, huh?) but, we also know that we have a long way to go.  We need business users and workgroups to try it out and give us feedback.  You can report feedback, bugs, usability issues, or laudatory praise (we like the last one best, but don’t be shy about constructive criticism) in a variety of ways. You can report it on the website, or while you’re actually in the meeting, by clicking on the feedback tab.  Or you can send an email to: feedback[at]teamapart[dot]com

Team Apart is perfect for business users, like small teams that work remotely and need to collaborate, or client-based businesses that need to meet regularly in different locations.  Some of these might include:

• Small businesses & distributed workgroups
• Grad school students and groups like MBA programs
• Client-based / service businesses
• PR agencies
• Ad agencies
• Design Firms

You can join the queue to get a Beta account here. We’ll try to move fast to get you in and collaborating as fast as possible.  Thanks for reading, and welcome to Team Apart!