(pricing varies by protection level) Social Networking At its most basic, Avira offers security for individual PCs for free (if you’re willing to deal with one ad pop-up per day) but if you need protection for file and mail servers or other central services, Avira can provide such tools as well, for a generally reasonable price. Yes, you need to protect your business with a solid antivirus package, but big-name, enterprise-level protection can be really expensive. offers many sales- and lead-tracking tools. Upgrading to the Premier Edition brings extra space (a 25GB limit versus 7GB for free) and a conference-room scheduling system. A word processor and spreadsheet are your only choices–no free-form whiteboarding here–but the service is free and easy as pie to operate. If your team members all have Google accounts (and why wouldn’t they?), sharing files and collaborating on them simultaneously and in real-time is a snap with Google Docs. Google Docs lets a team share and collaborate on spreadsheets and documents. (free for up to 20 live participants additional services extra) Collaboration/Office Suite You don’t even have to register to use Vyew, but if you do, you get access to VoIP and other audio services. This Web conferencing platform gives you a very simple whiteboard where you can upload documents for discussion, share your desktop, or create designs from scratch. With Vyew, anyone can host an Internet session that lets scattered colleagues work together on a project in real time. WordPress so simple, your team will be begging to contribute to the blog instead of whining that it’s too laborious. Hey, it’s not too late to catch up: WordPress installs in minutes (it even offers a free, hosted option on ), and the platform is dazzlingly easy to use (the site’s home page carries an ad for WordPress for Dummies, but we doubt you’ll need to crack that volume). If your business still doesn’t have a blog–one of the best ways around to provide up-to-date company and product news–you’re only about three years behind the curve. WordPress offers one of the easiest blogging platforms you can find–and it’s free. ($5 per month for unlimited service) Blogging Tool Just select what you want backed up, and Mozy does the rest, either in bulk while you sleep, or in real time, as files are changed. You can (and should) regularly back up files to an external hard drive or NAS (network-attached storage) device in your office–but what if the whole place goes up in smoke? Hedge your bet with an online backup service like Mozy, which automatically archives whatever you’d like across the Internet, safe and sound. Mozy’s remote backup service lets you select what you want to back up.
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