Top-5 Tools for Successful Team Communication

From our previous articles you already know that communication is one of the most important parts of a successful teamwork. Everyday meetings and reports on the done work together with the responsibility always being online are essential. This helps the remote team stay united despite the distance between the members. And the more the team cares about this aspect, the more productive and prosperous it becomes.

Today we have prepared a list of convenient tools, which would help your team to communicate well. We have been choosing these tools quite carefully and hope you’ll find the most suitable particular for you.

Ready? Go!

SLACK 

Slack is a number one tool for remote team communication. If you find any article about such tools - Slack will probably be on the first place. And that’s fair!

The communication there is held by using special channels, where you can text, share files and have video conferences. Moreover, you are able to share the channels with your established clients to gather all together at the same place. Slack is fun to use and you won’t have any troubles with that. Besides, it has strong security and protection of your data. 

The tool has different pricing for different teams. For example, it has a free fee for small teams, $6.67 USD for those who are ready to make Slack the hub for their projects and $12.50 USD if you need SSO, Compliance Exports, and guaranteed uptime. 

SKYPE FOR BUSINESS

Skype for business has unlimited meetings for up to 10 people and you can join it using any type of devices. Along with different types of devices, you can use any operational system like Windows, Mac, Linux and so on. The great thing you are able to send messages during meetings to offer new ideas. You also have an opportunity to draw, edit and write right at the moment of video conferences. Video conferences have such additional features as the ability to record meeting and to use PowerPoint presentations.

Skype for business, in general, gives a feeling of being together even knowing you are in the different places at all. 

In addition, it is important to say that the quality of the video is really high. This is essential for such tools, isn’t it?

Unfortunately, the tool is not so safe because the Skype accounts can often be hacked. So, be attentive with the information you leave there. And use complicated passwords ;)

GOOGLE HANGOUTS

Although Google Hangouts Meet doesn’t have as many functions as the two previous ones but ...

If you should have an immediate video meeting - that’s what you need. 

The main advantage of this tool is that it’s synchronized between all Google services. That is why you could join a chat, or see its history using any device which has access to your google account. This is extremely convenient for our times! 

The service allows to share your geolocation with anyone from your chat (in our case, your team members). It automatically downloads all the photos, used during the conference/chat, into a closed album on Google+. Let’s say, the program does everything instead of you. You just ought to enjoy :)

DISCORD

Discord is very popular between gamers. But now it’s becoming more famous, and remote teams are starting use it for their conferences. Why?

Well, for several reasons.

It organizes both open and private chats online which work on the principle of push-to-talk (the program has a “browser view”).

It supports the hotkeys mode. The overlay function gives the possibility to switch between the channels, hostings and group chats, turn up and down the sound of messages of the chat members or private messages.

The quality of voice messages is very high (so is the video messages quality) because of the use of Opus coder.All the abnormal noises are suppressed and there is an automatic gain control.

So, the developers did everything they could for their users comfort.

And we are moving to the last one.

ZOOM

Zoom is a cloud-based communication tool, which offers lots of stuff to its users.

It has integrated HD video and audio, moreover, as they say, you can start the conference from any part of the world. They may be launched using Outlook, Gmail or iCall. You could also record your conference to recall some key moments later. 

The group’s chats are easy to use, quite comfortable and have a long-term data storage. 

Using this tool you can be sure all your data stays secure and safe. 

In addition, a special feature of Zoom is that you can participate in various useful webinars and improve your skills there.

CONCLUSION

So, the list looks like that:

1. Slack

2. Skype for Business

3. Google Hangouts

4. Discord

5. Zoom

All the tools are convenient but you ought to choose the one which suits your needs most. Generally, such tools are the real helpers for the remote teams. They give possibilities to communicate, share, learn and solve!