Today I spent some time trying out a neat online software called OpenACircle and thought I would review it here for any interested readers. The product is geared toward business professionals and provides tools for them to collaborate online with ease by providing a variety of easy to use applications, such as shared calendars, video chat, the ability to share desktops, share files and more. Users are able to open a circle, where their business associates can then join them to collaborate and take advantage of all of the features offered by OpenACircle. I found the software to be very user friendly and intuitive, so it could easily be used by businesses in all sectors, and by folks with varying levels of web and PC proficiency. Also, while OpenACircle is primarily geared toward businesses it could also be used by educational groups who want to work together remotely, as well as clubs and other groups that would benefit from being able to share information and work collectively online.
If you or your company is interested in signing up for the services provided by OpenACircle, I encourage you to take advantage of the free registration by signing up at the OpenACircle homepage, which is located at Openacircle.com. You can then try out the software, and consider one of their three pricing models. There is the basic (free) version, which is in itself quite complete but provides for less storage capacity and allows for fewer users and collaboration circles than the other models. There are also premium and pro packages, which both provide for more storage, users and collaboration circles, with the pro being the larger of those packages. Both packages are extremely reasonably priced for what OpenACircle offers, with the Premium package priced at 9.95 monthly and the Pro packaged at 29.95 monthly.
