Essential Tools For The Virtual Business

Chris Brogan's virtual business toolkit of mostly online software tools includes Google Apps, Skype (telephony), Yammer (internal twitter-like app), Adium and Trillian for internal instant messaging, and four or five others.

"When I started Human Business Works, there was never a question that it would be a virtual business. The name of the game is staying in contact with my team and working with deliverables in mind--not proximity.

Making it work requires a comprehensive set of useful tools. Here's what we've come up with as staples in running our virtual business."