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Keeping others in the loop

Keeping others in the loop - Basecamp Tutorial

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Keeping others in the loop

People who aren't part of a project, or even your Basecamp account, often need to know about what's going on in your projects. You can include them in discussions or notify them of events, even if they aren't part of your project or Basecamp account. So, open the project that you want to work on, and let's say that you have a discussion and you need somebody's opinion. So, click the link for that discussion. Then, you can add your comment in the Add a comment box. So, in this case, we're going to ask for Mark's opinion about live training. The thing is, in this case, Mark isn't part of this project. So, to loop him into the discussion, click the Loop in someone who isn't on the project link. Then, you can type in their name or e-mail address. So, I start to type and Basecamp finds a matching entry. Mark is actually part of the account, but not part of this project. Click the name in the drop down list and Basecamp adds the name to the loop in. Then, click add this comment. So, here's…

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