Zapier provides a means to create on-the-fly data connections between applications which may not have open API's. Zapier works with a wide range of popular applications - a list of current ones is available at: https://zapier.com/zapbook/apps/.

The creation of Zaps (specific trigger -action definitions) is done using a simply graphical interface and can perform and wide variety of tasks. Examples include: receive a tweet and add it to a row in a google spreadsheet; add a card to trello from an email; post to Facebook from an RSS feed.

Slack is a team-based communication and archiving platform. It allows for both synchronous and asynchronous communications, channels for managing specific streams, full user management and integration with a wide variety of social media and storage providers. It is free for limited (rather generous) use and provides one the best means to allow for individual communication patterns within a managed project to be facilitated. Allowing for the quick and informal communications, hashtagged for quick scanning and searching as well as targeted messaging makes it a very compelling project tool. The addition of specific mobile clients with notifications makes it a very effective project management tool.