# Care for the Family chooses Huddle.net for online collaboration

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/04/11/care-family-chooses-huddlenet-online-collaboration/
- Published: 2008-04-11T09:44:36+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Care for the Family has chosen Huddle.net, the online collaboration application,
to help improve teamwork across the charity. Huddle combines online collaboration,
project management and document sharing using social networking principles.**

One hundred staff across the charity’s four offices together with community representatives
in Greater Manchester and the Isle of Man are using Huddle to work on projects together
and exchange research and statistics.

Huddle, which is free for charities to use, enables Care for the Family’s staff 
to create a network of collaborative team workspaces, bringing together the right
team for the right project.

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The senior management team has already used Huddle’s document sharing tools to distribute
teams’ quarterly reporting on best practice, to create a survey template for use
at the charity’s seminars, and to facilitate training and plan workshops.

Jon Mason, Executive Development Officer, Care for the Family, said; “There are 
many collaboration applications available on the web, so proper evaluation is a 
must. We couldn’t fault Huddle – it offers a special package for charities, which
is completely free and offers all necessary training and customer support.”

Care for the Family has discovered that one of the benefits of using Huddle was 
to cut down on the volume of internal emails sent. The charity says that it has 
stopped sending any emails that involve ‘action’: all documents that require review
or approval are now posted online in the charity’s huddle.

Care for the Family says that it is hoping to use Huddle to collaborate with similar
interest groups in New Zealand and South Africa.

Established in November, 2006, Huddle.net is based in London. Its customers include
John Lewis, Boots, Edelman and UNICEF and a number of government organisations.

www.huddle.net/why-huddle/huddle-for-charities

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