Welcome to the Weekly Buzz Round-Up! Here's the Buzz on Central Desktop in the News, Blogosphere and Twitterverse this week.

Archiving and e-Discovery for Collaboration Systems - Messaging News
Software as a Service vs Infrastructure as a Service - Idealware
The Perfect Small Business Collaboration Tool - DuctTape Marketing Blog
Collaboration and All That - The Marketer Blog



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Central Desktop comes to the iPhone!

Twitter is the 2009 Word of the Year

How to Assign Admin Permissions in Central Desktop

During the initial setup phase of your team collaboration environment, you should familiarize yourself with Membership Types as well as both Company Level and Workspace Level User Permissions.



An Internal Member is the standard membership type within your workspaces, generally including people within your company, department, or project team.Generally it includes people within your company, department, or project team. Typically an Internal Member will have access to multiple workspaces throughout the account. All Internal Members can be found on the Internal Member List (Roster), where both their Company Level Permissions as well as their Workspace Level Access and Permissions can be managed.

Yesterday, Discovery News announced that the word "Twitter" is the 2009 "Word of the Year." According to Microsoft, "Twitter" was one of the most highly searched terms in the company's new Bing search engine.

It's hard to believe that only 3 years after its creation in 2006, the social networking and microblogging tool has been adopted by more than 6 million users.The company experienced an overall growth in unique visitors of 1382% within a year (Feb 08-Feb 09), and although that doesn't necessarily mean all of those visitors become users, it does prove that Twitter is becoming a household name. Corporations, celebrities, small businesses and entrepreneurs can all be found on Twitter nowadays. 

Notifications, RSS Feeds and E-mail digests are great for online collaboration and keeping up to date with your company activity. However, if you belong to a lot of workspaces, by default you may be getting a long email every two hours apprising you of the all the modifications taking place in all those workspaces. 



There may be some workspaces where you only need notification daily or weekly and others where getting notifications every two hours is perfect.One of the most helpful and overlooked features in Central Desktop is the ability to control what information you receive from Central Desktop and how often.

One of our long time customers, Red Oak Technologies, has written a 3rd party mobile app that lets you access/add/update Central Desktop Tasks and Calendar from your iPhone. This app is currently free of charge, and once out of beta, it will be available in Apple's App Store. To try it out, point your iPhone to: http://centraldesktop.mobi/

Welcome to the Weekly Buzz Round-Up! Here's what was buzzing about Central Desktop in the News, Blogosphere & Twitterverse this week.


Fuel for Discovering Sustainable Innovation - Discovery Fuel

Searching for a Shared Virtual Workspace? - Stepcase Lifehack
Central Desktop Integrates Zoho Sheet - Zoho Blog
Central Desktop Announces Zoho as Online Spreadsheet Partner - International Business Times
News Updates - Michael Sampson Currents

Here at Central Desktop we use a standard Mail Server (IMAP/POP), most of us use Microsoft Outlook 2007, and Central Desktop as our shared calendar/collaboration tool (as you would expect). We still spend quite a bit of time each day in Microsoft Office tools such as Outlook, OneNote, Excel (for heavy financial models) and Powerpoint. I can say we have generally successfully moved away from using MS Word and use our Online Spreadsheets for lightweight Spreadsheet activity.

I still HEAVILY rely on Outlook as my email client and personal Calendar. Maybe you do too. So for calendar "syncing" I use the Central Desktop Outlook Plugin.

Workspaces in Central DesktopCentral Desktop is a very powerful application and can be used to solve a vast array of business problems. Having a thorough understanding of some of the basic properties of the application is key to unlocking its potential. Today we're going to look at our most basic feature - the workspace - to understand how and when to use it to its full potential. Let's take a look now at all the most important properties of the workspace. Workspace limits Understanding your workspace limits (the number of simultaneous workspaces you can have deployed at any given time) is the first step. Each Central Desktop account has a varying number of workspaces available to it. The plans we offer right now will allow you to setup anywhere between 2 and unlimited workspaces, depending on which level you sign up for (www.centraldesktop.com/pricingmatrix). Limited user access with private workspaces Probably...