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Bill Breen, Director of Web Development at SmartMoney.com, writes about using the Basecamp API to create project reports. We have a weekly managers meeting where we briefly run down all our open projects and their status. The responsible party can then update and if necessary elaborate briefly on specific items within their project. It is a great meeting to have because it gets all parties from various groups in one room where we quickly keep everyone abreast of the projects being worked on. People in theory can get all the same information from Basecamp themselves, but reality is this is not…

Report2Base is an add-on to Basecamp that can be queried for milestones, tasks, messages exchanged and hours clocked for a given project or a given client. According to the Report2Base site, features include: Intuitive, 'wizard-like' interface for query construction Rich, tabbed UI for simultaneous viewing of multiple reports Facility to save frequently used queries Exporting of reports as PDF / CSV files periodic dispatch of reports to specified email contacts Charts for visual representation of project data Learn more.

In "Manage your contacts effectively – where have all my post-its gone?", Aron Stanic of Inchoo discusses Highrise. Let’s say I’ve just received an email inquiry from a new prospect. When sending a response, I can instantly Bcc the email to my Highrise dropbox making the communication transparent and easily trackable for myself and, most importantly, for the rest of the team as well. I’m able to upload and/or import basic contact information about the new client together with her/his picture (sometimes being good with the names simply doesn’t cut it), corporate information, other…

Burndown is a simple tool that takes your Basecamp milestones and to-do lists and generates burndown charts with them. With Burndown you don't need to repeat yourself. A simple synchronization process is all you have to do to keep daily track of your iteration and generate helpful burndown charts. Forget about bloated so called "agile" software, that requires training to be used. If the "agile" tools you're using require a certification... well probably you're not being as agile as you think.

We're excited to announce a batch of improvements to File Uploads in Basecamp. Now it's easier to attach multiple files at once, we've improved our progress bar to show you as each file is uploaded, and you can click thumbnails to zoom image attachments without leaving the current page. These new features make it faster and easier to attach, review and discuss files in Basecamp. Here's a demo video to show you all the improvements. We hope you like the new file upload features in Basecamp. Thanks as always for your support!