Just Call Me GTD Girl!

So it's time for annual performance reviews, merit bonus checks and compensation talks at my company.  Since my staff is a bit depleted at the moment (but new guy starts Monday...FINALLY) I only had to give two performance reviews this year.  One positive, one negative.  I really thought the guy was going to flip out during the negative one, but I kept my cool and in the end, he did too.  Overall, not bad.

My director came out to give me my performance review yesterday.  I was a bit nervous considering he promoted me 8 months ago and I wasn't completely sure how he felt about all the decisions I've made as part of the management team, etc.  I really should stop being so paranoid...it was completely fine.

Then we started discussing the improvements he wanted to make.  In the interest of better communication, I am now to be the liaison between our team and the other team in the department.  All integrated projects will be managed by me.  Our relationship with the other team is completely in my hands.  I'm apparently his girl on this one.  Yikes!  Time for some collaboration, I guess.

The other improvement is in the area of increased productivity through a centralized GTD/task manager.  Now, when it comes to Web 2.0 apps...I've got it covered.  But I warned him that whatever we decided to go with we would have to be diligent about using it or we would be back to the "to-do-lists-on-cocktail-napkins" method of organization that we are currently using.  Not the most effective.  So here's the list of task management and collaborative tools that I am currently evaluating to determine which one is right for us:

• Wrike
• Basecamp
• Nozbe
• @Task
• voo2do
• Ta-Da List
• Vitalist
• CentralDesktop
• Taskbin
• Joint Contact
• comindwork

(Sigh)...I know there are a million more, but what I really want is a to do list with a great note-taking and file upload features so we can better share information.  Our shared drive area is a disaster...it's like some sort of black hole where files go in and never seem to be heard from again.  I'm a huge 37signals fan, so I'm hoping either Basecamp or TaDa List will work (especially excited about the possibility of using Campfire for chat), but I think since I would have to use a paid account it will be out of our price range (currently between free and $15 per month).

Wish me luck!