One of the HBN objectives for 2009/10 is to improve collaboration between HBN members.
Collaboration means 'Working together'.
For small businesses, this means shared decision-making with equal stakes in opportunities.
With the right people working together constructively, it can create winning business structures with shared visions and strategies - and no politics.

In order to make this work, I have recently setup the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for HBN. Zimbra is owned by Yahoo! and is recognised
as one of the most powerful collaboration tools available.

HBN members can create an account for free on Zimbra. The suite is designed to:

keep in touch by helping you communicate via email / shared calendars / Instant messaging / Twitter / Facebook
Lay down ideas by creating and sharing documents
Getting things done by creating and assigning tasks among a group.

What you get:

1. A free email account <name>@hbn.org.uk
   Your HBN email account will be automatically filtered for spam and viruses
2. A shared calendar - create multiple calendars and share them with anyone in HBN
3. Task lists - create multiple task lists and share them with anyone in HBN
4. Briefcase - store documents and share them with anyone in HBN
5. Online documents - your online notebook to take notes anywhere online and share them with anyone in HBN

If you are interested in this new service, please call Jon Beal: database@hbn.org.uk