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I was looking around for some alternatives to Basecamp, and was pretty surprised to see that there are a ton of alternatives out there. So naturally a list is the way forward.

No recommendations yet, and not all of these are Basecamp replacments - Harvest and ClockingIt, for example, could be seen as complimentary.

• Goplan
• Unfuddle
• OnStage
• Harvest (time tracking and invoicing)
• TeamWorkLive
• ActionThis
• 5pm
• DeskAway
• Collabtrak
• ActiveCollab (self hosted)
• ProjectPier (fork of older version of ActiveCollab, selfhosted, opensource)
• ClockingIt (timetracking, opensource)
• Lighthouse
• Copper
• Wrike
• Intervals
• Central Desktop
• Huddle

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Despite the waves of jetlag that ocassionally threaten to leave me faceplanted on a table, I'm having fun here in San Antonio.

As is the case in all conferences, the true value is always in the people you meet,rather than the conference itself, and I've been having a blast hanging out with some irreverently like-minded people from down-under - Adrian Copley (Copley Communications), Anna Kominik (Ideas Shop) and Amanda Boland Curran (Acid), - who are a lot of fun, as well as being smart and experienced comms professionals. What's especially pleasing is that they're switched on to the way that social media is changing and cascading through the communications sector - and not in a lemming-like follow the herd way, but with an appreciation of how social tools can benefit an organisation if handled properly.

A few margaritas have been drunk, and lots of interesting conversations have been had. Their english isn't bad, and I've been pleased that we've been able to communicate pretty well, only occasionally needing to resort to sign language to get the message across ;-)

I'm in San Antonio for the next few days, attending the IABC Leadership Institute Conference, thanks to the IABC UK. As the new IABC UK webmaster I'm mainly here to meet with the IABC web team and discuss some exciting work they've been carrying out to provide some templates to chapter sites to create up to date websites based on Wordpress. Looking forward to seeing what they've done, and also to revamping the existing IABC UK site.

I've also been roped in (obligatory cattle and cowboys reference, seeing that I'm Texas) to a panel this afternoon organised by the San Antonio chapter, talking about International Communications Trends. Needless to say, I'm going to spend my bits talking about social media!

Looking forward to an interesting few days, as well as seeing a bit of San Antonio, a town I visited for the first and only time 20 years ago.

ok...i tried to resist but have failed. twitter is fun.

[tags]twitter, socialnetworks, im, txt, social, web20, web2.0[/tags]