Care for the Family chooses Huddle.net for online collaboration

Care for the Family has chosen Huddle.net, the online collaboration application, to help improve teamwork across the charity. Huddle combines online collaboration, project management and document sharing using social networking principles.

One hundred staff across the charity's four offices together with community representatives in Greater Manchester and the Isle of Man are using Huddle to work on projects together and exchange research and statistics.

Huddle, which is free for charities to use, enables Care for the Family's staff to create a network of collaborative team workspaces, bringing together the right team for the right project.

The senior management team has already used Huddle's document sharing tools to distribute teams' quarterly reporting on best practice, to create a survey template for use at the charity's seminars, and to facilitate training and plan workshops.

Jon Mason, Executive Development Officer, Care for the Family, said; "There are many collaboration applications available on the web, so proper evaluation is a must. We couldn’t fault Huddle – it offers a special package for charities, which is completely free and offers all necessary training and customer support."

Care for the Family has discovered that one of the benefits of using Huddle was to cut down on the volume of internal emails sent. The charity says that it has stopped sending any emails that involve 'action': all documents that require review or approval are now posted online in the charity's huddle.

Care for the Family says that it is hoping to use Huddle to collaborate with similar interest groups in New Zealand and South Africa.

Established in November, 2006, Huddle.net is based in London. Its customers include John Lewis, Boots, Edelman and UNICEF and a number of government organisations.

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