the process

This post is really just a summary of what tools I'll be using for the time being, both for the administration of the business and its execution.

 

Google Apps

Mail, calendaring, contacts and simple, shareable documents are all hosted by Google Apps for your Domain

 

Accounting

Provided by Saasu, also hosted. Financial transactions, invoices, purchases and simple inventory in the cloud

 

Modelling

TOGAF, BPMN, standard and customised UML modelling and more: Enterprise Architect by Sparxsystems - a comprehensive tool at a great price ... AND it's Australian! 

For outlining and brainstorming: Freemind (I'm using the v0.9 beta) - a clean, easy to use mindmapping tool; free and open-source

 

Office tools

Documents/spreadsheet/presentation: Google Docs, Openoffice.org, MS Office

Browser: Firefox

Mail client: Web, Thunderbird

 

Communication

Voice: the mobile phone and Skype

IM: Skype, Google Talk and Twitter

Text: Typepad (this blog), shared Google Docs

Images: Flickr, iStockphoto

Presentations: Slideshare

 

 

Some kind of landing page will be forthcoming, but for the foreseeable future this blog will continue to be the main vehicle for long-form information about the venture.

It will be obvious to you all that I am fairly committed to the cloud - for accessibility as well as cost reasons. I also suspect that these various providers will do a better job of back-up and recovery than I would :)

See also:

• the plunge
• the purpose
• the plan
• the pitch