I have a design studio and I’ve introduced Basecamp to some of my clients who own marketing firms. They seem interested in using it for themselves. I can see the following scenario unfolding: they add a job to their basecamp and we add the same job to our basecamp. The want us to communicate, put in to-do lists and milestones and upload files through their system and we want to use ours. Has anyone run into this? If so, how do you resolve this issue of not duplicating all the communications and so on?

Hi. We sort of ran into this with the ProofHQ integration with Basecamp. We saw scenarios where people would want to show proofs of design work in more than one Basecamp account.

To solve this problem we ended up embedding proofs of artwork in messages and giving people an embed code so that they could place the same proof in other messages in other projects. We also decided to show the comments and mark-ups in the iframe, so that they would appear wherever the proof was displayed.

I guess you could do something similar with data?

I hope that this helps.