Around twenty years ago, my UCLA colleague and IT staffer, Jim O., and I tried our hand at writing software that would facilitate team effort and communications. We eventually abandoned the project for a number of reasons, but I continued to watch developments in the industry and marketplace for this category, and experimented with a variety of such solutions as they became available over the years.
Now, arguably the hottest product in that field would be Slack (or SLACK, as it is really an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge”). Many may not know about that acronym or that the software could be used as a tool that could affect your privacy. Read more here in this Quartz report.