Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

April brings more than just jokes and spring showers… It’s time to spring clean your workspaces back into shape. I’m going to borrow an analogy Susan from our CS team made in today’s Get Connected webinar on Spring Cleaning. A workspace can be alot like an office kitchen. People come in and out, mind their [...]

This is a contributed guest post from Sydni Craighart, Central Desktop user and founder of SmartSimpleMarketing.com. I’ve used a number of different tools and systems over the years to manage projects amongst my team. My favorite among them all is Central Desktop, but this piece of advice really applies to any collaboration solution. There is [...]

For those of you who attended Collabosphere, you might remember our CEO Isaac Garcia alluding to all the cool ways our customers are using Central Desktop. Some of these cool ways, he had never even imagined CD would be used for. That spurred us to create a video showcase of our most interesting use cases. [...]

Meet Kevin, our resident Central Desktop dinosaur. Ever since he scored “Dinosaur” on our 9 Types of Collaborators quiz, we’ve been giving Kevin a hard time (in good fun) about not having a smart phone. He’s even embraced his new nickname T-Rex – or in some circles K-Rex – by updating his profile pic in [...]

Here’s a year-end list of all things collaboration: from best practices to product news to pictures that’ll make you smile. Read the list, click the links and relive Central Desktop’s Best of 2011. 1. Biggest news flash  – Central Desktop Launches First Fully-Integrated Collaboration Solution for Marketing Agencies. In March, Central Desktop launched SocialBridge, and [...]

This old-school technique can increase user adoption Sometimes simple, old-school tricks can make your collaboration platform much easier to use. Take hyperlinks. Simple. Old school. And perhaps the most straightforward way to help users find specific pieces of content. Dan Keldsen of Human 1.0 said it best in a recent Central Desktop webinar: “The Web [...]

Last month we launched the 9 Types of Collaborators infographic, a fun way to identify some common and quirky workplace personalities. Now we’ve launched a quiz, “What Type of Collaborator Are You?” to help you identify which character you are! I classified myself as a mix of Stealth Ninja and Taskmaster when the original infographic [...]