by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 27, 2009
Normally this would have not registered with me but for the last year I’ve been finishing my basement. While almost done – I’ve been wondering why a service like this was not available. I’ve been using Basecamp to manage my home improvement project, and while not ideal it works better than nothing for keeping track of such a big home improvement project.
What is ManageMyHome?
“ManageMyHome allows customers to download online product manuals, receive expert project advice, organize lists of parts and materials needed for projects, calculate estimated project costs, read how-to articles, and also schedule Sears home improvement services and purchase home improvement products and materials. In addition, a team of volunteer homeowners called “Neighborhood Helpers” provide advice through an interactive blog and by posting “tweets” on the Twitter social networking site.” via MarketingCharts
by Andy Brudtkuhl on January 29, 2009
Yes, yes… we love Basecamp. But we don’t just use it for our web strategy and internet marketing projects… Basecamp is a powerful tool for non-business projects as well. Here are 3 other ways you can use Basecamp, outside your business…
Home Improvement
We are currently in the process of remodeling our basement into a man cave. This project is HUGE and has been going on almost six months now. We have been using Basecamp to manage the entire project. We set up milestones and associated tasks to them. We assigned the tasks to either us or our contractors. And any ideas or products we want to remember we just upload as messages… It works FANTASTIC. I’d recommend this to any small or medium size contracting or service company. It works excellent – and you can manage it in your hand, with your iPhone.
Podcasting
You can use Basecamp to manage your podcast or other multimedia productions. Doug and I use it to collaborate on our internet business podcast throughout the week – to figure out what we are going to talk about. We use messages and comments to shoot ideas back and forth. We actually do this using email, but it’s all logged as a threaded message in Basecamp – awesome. Once we have our ideas set we use the Writeboard feature to create our script and the message features again to jot down show notes and links for post production. This works fantastic for collaborating the creation of our podcast remotely without ever even discussing it in person.
Wedding Planning
A friend of mine is getting married next year and I set he and his fiance’ up with the free version of Basecamp to manage the planning of their wedding. Obviously there are certain planning aspects that need to be done on time so they have setup milestones for when they need to have the photographer reserved by as well as other reservations like the reception location. They are using the tasks feature to assign each other items to take care of – which of course are attached to milestones. And they use the messaging feature via email to talk about ideas. And last they are using Highrise (contact management) integration to create their guest list. How bout that for organization!
How are you using Basecamp outside your business use? Let us know in the comments!
