Project Management within Google Apps

Manymoon is a social based team collaboration project management tool available in the Google Apps Marketplace to seamlessly integrate with your companies Google Apps account.

Access Manymoon from within your Google Apps.
Attach Google Docs and uploaded files to tasks and projects
Project calendars synchronized with shared Google Calendars
Google Gadget for managing tasks
Single view across all projects and tasks
Time tracking
Micro-blogging
User profiles (view shared content)
Schedule project meetings
Invite People outside your domain to collaborate on a project

We have been using Manymoon for some time at Spark Consulting because I love the way it integrates with my Google Apps account but last week Manymoon released a new feature – "Make your emails actionable by creating tasks and projects from Gmail"

This seemingly small feature will revolutionise the way users of Google Apps and Manymoon towards keeping an inbox uncluttered. Too often we keep important emails which require some form of action in our inbox simply because we don't have a simple and effective way to put them somewhere that we can trust will be available when they need to be actioned on.

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For example, lets say I get an email that requires action. It might be a task request "Russell can you please do xyz, from a client who I am working with on a project.

From within the email window I can click on "Assign Task" and a contextual set of Manymoon task specific fields is displayed within the email (not a popup or new page). I populate the fields with the relevant information and can assign it to an existing project and thats it. All links in the email, Google Docs, recipients everything will be included in the task and updated in my Manymoon account. Any body who is subscribed to that project sees the updates immediately.

If you are a Google Apps user and you are looking for a slick social based project management tool to help you and your team stay on track then you should definitely head over to manymoon.com and check it out. If you are going to add it to your Google Apps account then be sure to do it from the Manymoon listing within the Google Apps Marketplace.