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Project Desk is a WEB 2.0 online Project Managent software solution packed with all kinds of features including: Task Tracking, Automated Emailing, Threaded Discussions, Document Sharing, & Reporting. It is build around the concept of Clients, Projects, and Tasks. It support Time Sheets for tracking hours on multiple projects, creates customer invoices, and even has an online Time Clock where you can log hours by starting and stopping a virtual stop watch and logging your time as you work.

Project desk, won't replace MS Project or other PM Software for developing detailed work breakdown sheets and managing dependancies on large complex projects. However, even on very large projects, once milestones have been developed, work has been allocated and the team engaged Project Desk starts to really shine enabling a collaborative environment for distributed teams to deliver the project.

I am using it to keep me focused and track my job search efforts, logging hours I'm putting into networking, searching job banks, interviewing and tracking all the pre and post interview correspondance and such. I can easily see how this would be useful whenever several people have to share work, track progress, and collaborate. Wether your a student working with 3 other classmates living in other dorms or working on a project with teams scattered around the world in different timezones. I would check it out - I have looked at a lot of online collaboration suites and this one is one of the best and I highly recommend it, though I'm keeping a close eye on google. Once Google Apps starts to allow sharing, delegating and tracking of tasks I might need to re-evaluate.