Here’s a chock-full-’o-nuts selection of tools for virtual collaborators, assembled by Gina Trapani: Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office – Lifehacker. The “placeless office” is Gina’s term for those of us who work in one place while our colleagues toil a few to a thousand miles away.

VA’s are always searching for collaboration tools that work. Some of these I’ve tried, others I’ll need to give a first peek.

The list of tools is further amplified by a nice long list of comments, in which posters are submitting their own faves.

If you have your own can’t-live-withouts, you might stop by Lifehacker and add to the list.