Today, the State Council officially announced that the Spring Festival holiday will be extended to February 2. However, for security reasons, some companies may choose to arrange employees to work from home in the short term.

Aifan’s editorial department has offices in Guangzhou and Beijing, and online collaboration has always been part of daily work. Today, we will share the daily remote collaboration workflow and related tools of the editorial department, hoping to help everyone find an efficient remote collaboration method.

Lazy Directory

  • Team communication
  • Task management
  • Online collaboration
  • File transfer
  • Material management

    Team communication

    Enterprise WeChat

    Enterprise WeChat is an enterprise communication and collaboration application under WeChat. It is the main communication tool for our work. There are three main application scenarios: daily communication, conference call and OA.

    In daily communication scenarios, there are two main advantages of corporate WeChat: on the one hand, it can let the sender know whether the target receiver has received the information, and on the other hand, it can reduce the interference of WeChat at work.

    • Use “read” to identify known audiences

      Before using corporate WeChat, HR or the editor-in-chief sent a notice in the WeChat work group, and it was inevitable that there was a “read” reply on the screen. If a notification is sent on the company’s WeChat, each message will show its reading, and the sender can clearly see who in the group has read / unread the message, and then determine whether the message is delivered.

      Another scenario is that our article will be previewed and confirmed in the group before it is pushed. The “read” function can help us determine the neglect in the group at this moment. Is it because the editor did not see the information, or they Seeing thinking about whether to adjust. If you encounter the former in an emergency, the sender can call the editor directly (you can check the phone numbers of all colleagues on the company’s WeChat).

      • Chat fortifications on corporate WeChat to reduce interference

        Everyone basically has a consensus. In WeChat of the company is talking about fortifications, so the communication is more direct and concise.

        Although we ca n’t ignore WeChat at all during working hours, we can still close WeChat for a short time when catching up with important work, leaving only WeChat in the enterprise, and we can miss important work news without external intervention as much as possible.

        • Built-in teleconferencing capabilities

          A day in the editorial department of Ai Fan’er begins at the morning meeting.

          Every working morning, the editor will use the company directlyThe “voice call” function in the industry WeChat group connects colleagues in the Guangzhou and Beijing offices to complete a day of discussion. Generally, we will first send out our topic selection schedule and related materials in the group, and discuss the topic one by one in the conference call.

          • The tedious approval process is OA

            Enterprises can design different approval modules in the “approval” function of corporate WeChat, set approver, informers, information and materials to be submitted, etc. In this way, office work and temporary business trips will not affect tasks such as applying for / approving various leave and material applications.

            In addition to the above functions, Enterprise WeChat also provides functions such as enterprise cloud disks, document collaboration, and schedule reminders.

            Other similar applications: Nailing

            The nails of Alibaba can also meet the communication needs of daily work, and are also equipped with rich collaboration modules. In contrast, corporate WeChat uses personal WeChat as the login account, which can eliminate the need for additional registration and lower entry barriers. There are more third-party extension applications supported by Dingding, and you can choose as needed.

            Products for meetings: Tencent meetings

            For readers who only need to use the online meeting function during this special period, we recommend using Tencent Meetings.

            New users only need to bind their mobile phone number to start using. The operation interface is simple and clear. On the homepage, there are only three buttons: Join Meeting, Quick Meeting, and Schedule Meeting.

            “Quick meeting” is to start a meeting immediately. You can directly send invitations through corporate WeChat, WeChat, QQ, etc. The recipient can join the meeting with one click. The “scheduled meeting”, as the name suggests, is to reserve a meeting, and the sharing and joining methods remain the same.

            “Join Conference” is a quick way for participants to join. Just enter the conference number to join the conference directly.

            Given the special circumstances of the Spring Festival this year, the Tencent Conference announced yesterday that it will open up to 300 simultaneous online conference services to all users for free, and it will continue until the end of the epidemic.

            Task management

            Google Docs

            Although the push articles you read every day are written by editors, those who make sure that the daily content is sufficient and the push is on time are operating colleagues. They assume responsibility for daily task management in the editorial department.

            Google Docs is Google’s free online documentation. In simple terms, it’s a bit like OffiThe ce three-piece set was moved online to provide real-time editing capabilities for multi-person collaboration, as well as a “chat room” function within the file. Just share a link with colleagues and set different editing permissions.

            ▲ Before the weekly topic selection meeting, the operation will issue a link to the topic selection form to remind everyone to fill in the topic selection.

            We chose Google Docs in addition to its powerful editing capabilities because it is also linked to our corporate email (Gmail). Even if you get the sharing link, only users who log in to the company email can open it.

            We use forms in Google Docs (just like Excel files) to manage long-term topic selection and scheduling. Under “Big Content Schedule”, there are many different worksheets, such as “Selection Meeting Registration Form” and schedules of various public accounts, which need to be edited and operated to update and maintain together. The recorded content spans a long time. Departments are visible.

            Other similar applications: WPS

            WPS provides online collaborative document editing function, which is also suitable for precipitating fine content with a long time span, and more importantly, no need to take a ladder. Part of the paid enterprise version of the software provides corporate organizational structure features that restricts only corporate employees to view / edit collaborative documents.

            Trello

            In addition to the authors of the editorial department, Ai Faner also has a long-term cooperation with external “genius writers” everywhere, and Trello is the tool we use to collaborate with them to manage projects.

            Trello looks like a “whiteboard”. You can divide the project into multiple stages (presented as a list) according to the process, and you can move tasks from one stage as easily as moving notes on the whiteboard. Drag to another stage.

            Take us as an example. The management board of “Genius Writer” includes lists such as “submit new topics”, “passed topics”, “writing topics”, etc., to track every node in the work.

            If you want to submit a new topic, the writer can add a new card in “Submit Topic”, write ideas, attach relevant hyperlinks, pictures, files, add collaborative members, set project deadlines, etc. At the same time, the management editor can also discuss content with the author in the message function in the card.

            Compared to the annual flight content document, Trello is a management tool that is more like a feature-rich To-do application, and is more suitable for supervising the achievement of scattered tasks.

            Other similar applications: Teambition

            Teambition is a domestic product similar to Trello, which also uses an intuitive “Kanban” task management interface. In contrast, Teambition has an advantage in that it has access to Dingding’s services (it was removed from the WeChat connection after being acquired by Ali). Users can connect the corporate structure in Teams and Teambition, and manage tasks together in the enterprise communication software.

            In addition, Teambition also has a built-in calendar function. Users can choose to view their daily work schedule distribution in the calendar, and they can also follow colleagues and master the overall time schedule of the cooperative team.

            Online collaboration

            Graphite document

            Ai Fan’s employees are well-known that the stability of the company’s back-end editor can be said to be Schrödinger’s personal biography, although usually he can stay safe and be able to finish editing and publishing articles, but once he encounters a crash and opens it, he will cry when he sees a blank There are no tears, and the editor-in-chief of a certain surname Liu has won several strokes, so an editor in hand is as important as a soldier with a gun in hand.

            Different text editors are divided into two types: local and online. Local editors are mostly used to write manuscripts alone. Online editors are generally more suitable for multi-person co-authoring due to their multi-person collaboration capabilities.

            Graphite is the most frequently used multi-person online collaboration tool in our work. For example, the main content of Ai Faner’s several manuscripts on the 2010s was completed on the graphite division of labor.

            Graphite is a multi-player collaboration software. At the time of birth, graphite has many small and beautiful features. This is a flattering bonus in Aifaner. Of course, the aesthetic bonus also has to be First on the basis of meeting functional requirements.

            Graphite’s registration path is very flexible. In addition to mailbox login, it also supports multiple account registrations such as WeChat and Nail, which basically covers the most commonly used registration paths for small and medium enterprises.

            From the perspective of practical collaborative writing, graphite is undoubtedly easy to use. If you are an old reader of Ai Faner, you may find many large conferences, such as Google I / O or Apple Autumn Conference. There is only one author account, but in fact most of them are co-authored.

            The basic functions of multi-person sharing editing and real-time saving will not be discussed in detail. In my opinion, the advantage of graphite is that there are no thresholds for public sharing editing and very clear multi-person revision traces. In addition, a more complete mobile client There are also extra points.

            The former will make multi-person collaboration easier, because you can see who each sentence and sentence came from, and every minor change before the final draft appears to be in order, and only a simple public link is required. Allow non-registered users to join without threshold. In addition, the graphite typesetting is exquisite and clear, and the overall use has a pleasing feeling.

            Of course, graphite, which has been developed for several years, is still quite far away from perfection today. First of all, the stability of the server and page is not as good as the products of large companies, and occasional crashes should be unlucky. There is also limited support for the popular Markdown syntax.

            Other similar applications: Tencent Documents, Youdao Cloud Notes

            Tencent Document is a Tencent development that supports multi-person online collaborative office software. It is similar in positioning to graphite documents and is relatively lighter than WPS and Office suites.

            Compared to graphite documents, the biggest advantage of Tencent documents is “no registration”, because you can log in directly with QQ number or WeChat, and these two accounts are already national-level masses. You need to know the registration process. In fact, it is the first threshold for software use.

            Tencent documents are generally similar to graphite in terms of user experience, but rely on the mass of Tencent and support the use of small programs, which is very suitable for QQ and WeChat users to share and collaborate on the mobile terminal.

            In addition to graphite documents and Tencent documents, Youdao Cloud Note also has the function of cloud collaboration. In addition to supporting NetEase mailbox login, it also supports QQ, WeChat, Weibo, and Diaoding account login.

            File transfer

            Baidu Web Drive

            In daily work, business trips are a part of our work. When attending press conferences or other large-scale events, I often come across situations where you need to pass back video materials and other content from the front to the rear for editing. Tool back has always been a headache. Although there are currently many small tools that support file transfer, from the perspective of stability and ease of use, I have chosen to give Baidu’s web disk “golden gold”.

            The biggest feature of Baidu’s web disk is that it can be used unobstructed after opening the VIP, but the excessive speed limit problem in the free situation makes it difficult to move. Our method is to open a VIP for the team’s public account. But there is still a problem in this case: whenever you change the device, for example, you need to log in to the app again when you change another phone in front to record a video, then you need to get the verification code to the back in time.

            Because a lot of people are using this account, and most materials are time-consuming to send back, so the rear is generally not downloaded directly from the app, but let the front get the material by sharing the link.

            In terms of speed, stability, functionality, and ease of use, Baidu ’s online disk after doing gold has done a good job in most aspects, at least for a small-scale enterprise, a Baidu online disk VIP account Will suffice.

            Other similar applications: Google Drive, Uncle Wen, Cow Quick Pass

            Google Drive

            Because the company provides a stable network environment, some activities that require overseas travel, such as CES, MWC, or IFA, will also use Google Drive for material backhaul.

            Google DrThe advantage of ive is that it is fast to use in foreign countries. Charging is only to obtain a larger space capacity, but there are no restrictions on speed. Of course, this situation is generally uploaded and shared using a personal Google account, after all, it is quite convenient to use Google overseas.

            Uncle Wen

            Uncle Wen is a cloud storage product introduced by appso before. It has 20GB of free space and unlimited speed. It is quite tempting. Uncle Wen is also able to share files without logging in, which is very friendly to everyone.

            Another interesting feature of “Uncle Wen” is that it supports sending the files directly to the mailbox or via text message to the mobile phone, which saves the trouble of copying and pasting again. It supports up to 10 mailboxes or mobile phones at the same time number. You can download the file by clicking the link, and you don’t need to log in. In terms of speed, it can reach 30M / S, and 20GB of space is enough for non-video-based users.

            Quick Cows

            “Dairy Cow Quick Pass” is a temporary large file transfer service that is very easy to use on mobile phones. It is characterized by being used when you run out. You do n’t need to download an app, you can use it by searching for a small program.

            In a non-login state, the transfer file supported by “Quick Cow” cannot be larger than 2GB, and the file can be stored for 72 hours. After choosing WeChat or Alipay to log in, there is no size limit for file transfer. The file can be saved for 168 hours (7 days).

            In terms of speed, “Cow Quick Transfer” is not very fast, but it is enough for mobile phone use. The actual measurement shows that uploading a 100MB file is about 1 minute, and the download speed is basically above 5M / s. For one thing, downloading a 100M video is a matter of 10 seconds.

            Material management

            Qunhui NAS cloud disk

            In addition to the needs of business trips, the content team has a lot of materials that can be reused. For example, a lot of product photos will be used in the evaluation experience and will be reused in future industry articles. At this time, using your own materials is undoubtedly a better and safer choice.

            For more convenient access to your own materials, building a private cloud NAS is almost the best choice. But one of the more annoying parts of using NAS is image retrieval. After all, as a search engine, Google is still the number one on the planet, and the images stored in NAS need to manually add some tags to facilitate later retrieval.

            Ai Fan’s NAS uses Synology Synology Technology products, in addition to using a computer, also supports mobile phone download Synology Moments. And the gallery supports intelligent classification, which can distinguish different characters, themes, and locations, although some are not accurate.

            Other similar applications: Eagle

            The content department used Eagle for a while before setting up the NAS, a gallery application that supports connection to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, and Nut Cloud. As long as you attach the cloud disk resource library to this library, Eagle will read it in real time according to the synchronization status of the cloud disk. In this case, after you import the image repaired by computer A into the resource library, you will connect Eagle’s computer B Can be used directly.

            Popular niche is not important, try more to find the tools you have

            These are the most frequently used software in the daily work of the Aifaner content team. Of course, these softwares are not static. For example, Zoom has been used during conference calls before, but with some changes, they were finally replaced by WeChat , And NAS libraries, etc. were newly built last year because of inconvenience during daily work.

            In fact, we can see that the tools we use are either public or non-domestic, domestic and non-domestic. The focus is to gradually find the most suitable and most suitable tool in personal use and teamwork. This is to improve efficiency. The essential. And we hope that these tools introduced today will really help you after trying them out.

            This is the first part of the holiday remote collaboration special planning. Next, the technical team and product team of Aifaner will also continue to share.

            This article was co-written by Li Chen and Fang Jiawen