Manage your data with ContactOffice (beta)
Web 2.0, Organizing, General, Blogging, Internet September 8th, 2007
In a previous entry, I was talking about Mail2Web and it’s ability to retrieve your e-mails, keep yourself organized with the Task and Calendar features, import and manage your contacts and so on…
Today I will be talking about the beta version of ContactOffice, a virtual office pretty much with the same features as Mail2web plus some more.
The main difference between these two is that ContactOffice doesn’t require you to sign up for another e-mail address, but Mail2web does.
When using Contact office, you will be able to use your e-mail address with which you’ve signed up with to send and receive your e-mail, and signing up for a yourname@contactoffice.com e-mail is a free option.
Another option, just like Mail2web, is the ability to retrieve e-mails from other accounts into one place.
Here’s a shot of the main home page:
There are 4 main versions of ContactOffice, ranging from Individual version for a single user (no data sharing) to Education version for 1000 users and more.
These are some of the main features, but not all offered to the single user
- Groups - Create internal groups or intercompany groups to share files and data.
- Messages - Retrieve, send+receive e-mails, SMS, Fax
- Calendar
- Address book
- Documents - Store and share all files types
- Virtual drive - Access your online documents easily from a special folder on your operating system desktop
- Forums - Secured forums that can be only accessed by the group members.
- Chats- Secured chats between group members
- Notes
- Bookmarks - Store your bookmarks online to access them from any computer - Import and export features work with all Web browsers
- Tasks
- Phone Calls - Send phone messages to your group members in a structured way
- See also the Web Features List.
There’s more to it, so if you wish to explore it, just visit http://beta.contactoffice.com/ and click on the flash Demo.
Personally, I love this service and I will be using it.

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