Copper is an online project management and collaboration tool. It’s ideal for freelancers who want to liaise with contractors or partners, or even for hands-on projects with clients.

What’s fantastic about Copper is that you can collaborate with whoever else is on your team to create and revise project plans (perfect for big jobs), keep track of milestones, and share files, contacts and events. And most importantly, unlike other project management tools you don’t need a weekend workshop to show others how to use it. It’s nice and intuitive, so even your technology challenged client can use it.

Copper has a free trial so you can try before you buy, and if you want to get a feel of the company you should check out their blog, Elementale. Unlike most company blogs (most of which have little more than press releases), this blog is actually a great, varied read. Check out Food For Thought, which relates food technology to business and Speeding Up Your Thang, which covers Ben’s ability to write 180 emails a day – impressive.

Have a read of the blog and you’ll also see that these guys have a great sense of humour - so you can be assured that if you do need to contact support for whatever reason, their reply will be witty and entertaining.

So as I always say, if you like FSw and you want us to keep on keeping on, support Copper so they can keep on supporting us!