File Sharing Services For Large Collaboration Projects
Online collaboration often requires sending large files back and forth among peers. As online PowerPoint presentations become more complex and embedded media in web conferences and webinars is used more often, the 10MB limit on many email clients is insufficient. Putting the content on a CD or DVD and over-nighting it is a sure and secure option, this is usually expensive and excessive for most collaboration projects. Here are two online file sharing services that I frequently use to transfer large files.
Yousendit has a quick and easy interface to send large files. The service is free to use and you can send up to a 100MB file and transfer 1GB per month. If you pay for the service, you can transfer up to a 2GB file, with no limit on transfers.
This site allows you to send files directly from Microsoft Outlook. It also has a transfer-resume function so if your connection breaks during a transfer, it will pick up where it left off when you reconnect. SendYourFiles also lets you send multiple files at a time, so you can select a list of files and have them all sent at once instead of having to select and send each file individually.
There are plenty of other great file sharing services, these are just the two that I use most frequently. Be careful not to send proprietary information through these file sharing services, unless they are encrypted as neither of these sites use SSL.