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Poll: What is the main information tool in your company?

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I wonder how other companies organize all those little notes and bits that should go "somewhere" for sharing and documentation. Things like phone number lists, Howto's, FAQs, planning documents, and so on.

What is your companies (main) repository for these things?

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philiphodgen
Google Docs spreadsheets as a replacement to a wiki (discarded Sharepoint and even PBWiki as too much tool getting in the way).

Daylite for projects, calendar, contacts, etc.

Dumb file storage on the network for documents.

It's the least bad solution we've found.

Mostly stays out of the way. Mostly works. Memo to all personnel: if a tool is sold as "it does everything" run away.

mindcrime
If by "your company" you mean the $DAYJOB, then it's "other." My dayjob company makes an enterprise document management system that is meant to serve as a repository for all sorts of documents and reports and stuff. And since we eat our own dogfood (more or less) we use it internally.

OTOH, if you mean "my startup oriented activities" then the answer is a combination of miscellaneous files scattered all over the file system on my laptop, email spread across two or three accounts, some documents in Google Documents, a Google Wave or two, and all sorts of notebooks and whiteboards full of scribbles and crap, spread around my apartment. :-)