Braintrust – Social Collaboration Tool
http://braintrust.io/

Braintrust is a social collaboration tool. Unlike most collaboration tools that focus strictly on ToDo lists and Milestones, Braintrust focuses on helping you organize and centralize the important conversations within your team. Braintrust fosters an intimate online environment where you and your team can have the conversations that lead to your brilliant ideas, the conversations that propel your business. They built Braintrust by combining the timeless elements of a traditional discussion forum and innovative features from popular social networks. Braintrust is web-based, real time, hosted in the cloud, completely secured, and accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection. It easily integrates with your existing e-mail system, doesn’t require any upfront costs, server installations, or ongoing maintenance. Benefits of using Braintrust include: a) Private and Secured: Braintrust is exclusive to only the team members you invite; b) Share ideas and thoughts: Everything from the genius that strikes at night to the interesting article you find online.; c) Share files, docs and media: Designs, pictures, mockups, documents, videos… any type of file can be shared; d) Have Focused Discussions: They have re-imagined forums, so that you have organized and productive dicussions; e) Real-Time conversations: Not a typical clunky web-app. Braintrust updates in real-time; and f) E-Mail Digests: Even if the whole team isn’t part of a conversation, they are kept in the loop with intelligent email digests. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.