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I was looking around last night for a free online project management tool. In the search results I saw two familiar names: Basecamp and Zoho. I tried Basecamp before and wanted to take a look at something new so I decided to try out Zoho Projects and am so far very impressed with the capabilities.

I am a little confused on setting up my tasks and assigning milestones. While creating either a task or milestone is intuitive linking them is not. I believe the right approach is to create the milestone and then assign the tasks under the milestone rather than create the task first and then assign it as a milestone.

I took a first cut at the spreadsheet feature this morning, and again good stuff. The communication tools, calendar and time tracking, all good.

Zoho offers an array of other online applications, including a CRM (constituent/client relationship management) tool that has a plug-in for MS Outlook, database and online meeting room tools to name a few. I use a Mac at home so am looking into what I can use to test our the CRM tool.

If you are working at a non-profit, or on a smaller scale project, business start-up Zoho offers an awesome array of tools to get you up and running. Most of the applications are free–to a certain limit, than a pricing plan starts when a limit is reached or exceeded but pricing looks reasonable.

So go have some fun with Zoho and let me know what you think.