Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

If online collaboration can find complex theorems for proofs and help polymer scientists make breakthroughs in their field, imagine what your business could do with it. The traditional system for publishing scientific research can take months – and after extensive peer review and publication cycle, many journals are hidden behind costly subscription gates, a process [...]

If you liked our 9 Types of Collaborators infographic, you’ll love our upcoming webinar, “The 9 Types of Collaborators.” I conducted a practice run with the speakers Friday afternoon and literally did a happy dance after everyone hung up. The content really is that good. We’ve got three speakers who know collaboration inside and out, [...]

Forty years ago this month, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email from one computer to another. According to Tomlinson, who is best known for introducing the @ symbol into our email lexicon (to specify at which host the user was located), “The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them. When I [...]

Despite all the buzz around “social business,” most companies have yet to make sense of rapid changes in the way we all communicate, interact and work together. If you are trying to figure out if social business is doable, achievable or even worth tackling at all, you won’t want to miss Central Desktop’s Tuesday, Oct. [...]

We recently launched Collaboration Insights, a new series of informational webinars, briefs and best practices developed with thought leaders and experts in the collaboration and user adoption space. Our most recent addition is a two-part series of briefs on structured and emergent collaboration co-produced with analyst Larry Hawes of Dow Brook Advisory Services. Larry Hawes [...]

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 [...]

We weren’t down during the Amazon outage. Why? It’s actually very simple: because we don’t utilize Amazon’s cloud computing platform. Lack of Communication Exacerbated the Problem You are seeing all sorts of industry post-event write-ups about the Amazon EC2 failure and what people on the platform could have done differently to avoid downtime. Some folks [...]