seems like the newsroom, although messages are clicked to go to “sales”, everybody is seeing them. Don’t like announcing things to our freelancers as well as internal folks. Anyway to stop this,like tonight?

Or is the newsroom only for things that everybody gets?
No other way to message just a single person?

The message boards are visible to everyone in your account. If you’re looking for a product to manage full-fledged projects with permissions and responsibilities you may want to check out Basecamp instead. Backpack is mainly an intranet tool for internal use inside your company.

I found basecamp to be too complex. I didn’t find the add a file, add a gallery to be there. Has this changed?
I would rather use it if it could be structured like Backpackit, but I felt overwhelmed by it.

Basecamp and Backpack are entirely different products for different purposes.

Basecamp is a web-based project management tool. You can use it to collaborate with clients on projects. Set deadlines, assign tasks, share project files, discuss project details, and manage multiple projects at the same time.

Backpack is an intranet and group calendar tool. It takes just 30 seconds to get started. Use Backpack to share information, knowledge, files, schedules, to-do lists and more inside your organization. Post company-wide announcements too.

http://37signals.com/which

I’m sure you get this question all the time, but for people/organizations have have both (I do), are there any plans to be able to set accounts to interoperate? It would be nice if BC project messages could show up on one’s BP newsroom, etc.

I realise that one person may have access to 10 different BC/BP accounts, some of which are otherwise unrelated to each other. Given the move to OpenID logins, perhaps 37S might consider separating dashboards from the rest of the applications; people have dashboards, their shared OpenID credentials enable linkages to the various accounts they interact with, and the dashboards reflect all the various events they might see in all the various accounts they could visit.

Right now I use BC/BP in a home setting; I and my partner use it to manage our grad school and work obligations, life, etc. I am planning to start a company in the next 12-18 months, and would love to have 37S’ products at the heart of that operation. Given an eventual need to have different divisions use their own BC/BP accounts, I (at least) continuing to have personal ones, without a unified dashboard it will become very easy to lose track of events and messages…

Please consider some sort of application that would allow people to make sense of their 37S lives (and extra-37s lives, if possible!).

Thanks
-RS