Communication Software
Slack
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team in a faster, better organized, and more secure than email. The software is designed for business looking to improve their communication work flow. Slack offers features like persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging that is built for teamwork.
FaceFlow
FaceFlow is an online video calling platform that provides tools for online video communication as well as text-based chat. With FaceFlow you can meet and talk to new people in the form of groups or as an individual. It's simple to sync your webcam with the FaceFlow platform and you can be up and running in minutes, talking to new and exciting people across the globe.
Kik
Kik is a free instant messaging and social networking app that allows you to stay connected with friends and stay in the loop. Over 4 million people use Kik on their smartphones to send messages and connect with the world around them. The design of the Kik application is easy on the eyes, and even easier to use. Share emojis and images directly in the chat and create and interact with chatbots to perform task like enhancing images, get news or play simple games.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is your hub for teamwork, it brings together everything a team needs from chat and threaded conversations, meetings & video conferencing, calling, and content collaboration. With you can instantly go from group chat to video call with the touch of a button. Securely connect, access, share, and coauthor files in real time. While staying organized by keeping notes, documents, and your calendar together.
GoToMeeting
With GoToMeeting you can meet and collaborate effortlessly with co-workers and friends. GoToMeeting empowers your remote workforce, while keeping your business safe and secured. Allowing work to be done anywhere, at any time, on any device, your organization needs a virtual meeting platform built for better business.
Imo
Imo is a free communication platform used by over 200 million people across the globe. Imo has clients for both desktop and mobile devices and lets you video chat with family and friends and meet new friends and share stories on the ImoZone. Imo can handle audio and video calls no matter if they are abroad or not.
Diaspora
Diaspora is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network developed by the Diaspora Foundation. The social network is built up of distributed pods, that can be self-hosted by anyone. However, to join the Dispora, you can simply chose an already hosted pod on the network. Members can share and discuss content with others, and label content with hashtags, allowing them to easily follow certain topics that they are interested in. Diaspora also supports @mentions and re-shares of posts, features which all adds up to an intricate communication and sharing system, distributed across the globe.
Elgg
Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.
Zoho Mail
Zoho Mail provides ad-free email hosting for business and organizations. It's comes with intuitive migration tools, along with 24/7 dedicated migration support to ensure smooth, lossless migration from your existing email provider. With Zoho Mail, your organization can manage all their email, calendar and contact needs. Since Zoho Mail is part of the Zoho's suite of online productivity, it's easy to extend the capability in to more parts of Zoho's offering and essentially run your entire business with Zoho. Zoho is provided as a Freemium software, where the free plan supports up to 5 users in an organization.
WeChat
WeChat connects a billion people with voice calls, video calls, photo sharing, chats and payments. The multi-purpose application is developed by the Chinese company Tencent and is and in China, it is described as "the app for everything". WeChat is primarily developed for the mobile consumer, but is also avalible on desktop and in the browser.