Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

I want to start by apologizing to my wife for the spit-take coffee stain on the couch. It wasn’t my fault, though. You see, I had just read a headline in my feed reader in which a web-based collaboration company proclaimed a 100% user adoption guarantee. That’s right – if, after three months, 100% of [...]

I read Web Worker Daily, daily, as I am, personally, a web worker. I find its advice to be very helpful, most of the time. Today, however, Web Worker Daily published a blog post entitled “8 Email Replacement Technologies.” There were some good suggestions: video conferencing, group chat and – most relevant to me – [...]

In Needles vs. Haystacks: Part 1, we delved into how to solve the all-too-common challenge of finding the information you need at the moment you need it using Central Desktop’s advanced search. Today, let’s focus on one of my favorite features in Central Desktop that will help you in your quest to organize and digest [...]

We all, at one time or another, have equated searching for a document to “finding a needle in a haystack.” That can be a pretty accurate analogy. It is not uncommon for our clients to house thousands of documents within their Central Desktop workspaces. For many of our users, those documents are often very similar. [...]

A few years ago, before I came to work at Central Desktop, I was working for one of Central Desktop’s customers. I was the primary Central Desktop administrator, and was responsible for rolling out CD to a larger portion of our employees. In reviewing CD’s capabilities, we had mapped out several areas in which Central [...]

Albert Einstein said “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”Well there’s a daunting task. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit. When I came to work at Central Desktop, I took the easy way out and told my grandparents I was taking a job “in computers.” They know I work for a software company that helps people work together, regardless of where they live, and that the software is a web based program, “like Facebook.”

Over the weekend, Gawker Media’s server was attacked by hackers, and their commenting database was compromised. 1.5 million users’ (myself included) login credentials were taken, and 200,000 of those passwords were released.