Basecamp vs Google Chat: Which is a better fit?

Reelika S.: Hi, I am Reelika from Design Dream Lifestyle. I'm a business strategist and coach, and I would give Basecamp five stars. Before using Basecamp, we really were just using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, but the problem we ran into was the collaboration and the teamwork. Basecamp allowed us to collaborate virtually with our team from across the globe and to get the projects done. We chose Basecamp because we were looking for a software that would allow us to collaborate to work across the globe on different projects. For example, content management, virtual workshops, in-person workshops, and that software allowed us to spread out all the tasks while also keeping an eye on what's already done and what still needs to be accomplished. When we started with Basecamp, we took a look at the tutorials. And I have to say they were very straightforward, very easy to follow. There really is no room to make any mistakes. And you don't need a high-tech knowledge for that, so anybody can really use this. If you're thinking about using Basecamp, give it a try because if you have a team, especially virtually, that has different projects going on and you need to delegate, and you want to keep eye on what's already done and what still needs to be accomplished, that is a really good tool for that.

Steve: Hi, this is Steve, and I'm vice president of marketing at my organization. We have used Google Hangouts for a long time, and I give it a five star rating. For more reviews like this, click the link below. The reason we chose Google Hangouts is other products make you download apps, and it just got cumbersome and confusing for some of the people. So for us to use it, it was just much simpler and easier to use for all involved. The reason we chose Google Hangouts is it's tied into Gmail and that makes it much more seamless. Therefore, we just send a calendar invite to people through our Gmail calendar, and they click a link and the meeting launches. That way, they don't have to download anything, and we can get into our meeting. Using Google Hangouts was very easy. With this, we never had to use customer support or talk to anybody else. We just sent a calendar invite to those we wanted to be part of the meeting. They clicked the link, the application launched, and we were able to start our meeting. So it was very seamless and easy to get up and running, which was very important to us. The reason we liked Google Hangouts is because if you have a Gmail account, it makes it so much seamless and easy to get a meeting together and very quickly. I would recommend it for that reason alone, because it was just easy to do through Gmail and have your meeting and be efficient, and time is important to all of us these days.