Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

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 [...]

Don’t finalize that list of 2012 New Year’s Resolutions just yet. We have one more resolution to add to your list this year. Last month, Central Desktop released the What Type of Collaborator Are You? quiz to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement as a team player. Now, we’re challenging you to [...]

As an outreach of CD Gives, I gave an interactive seminar for transitional youth (ages 18-21) at Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services. The event focused on best practices to land job opportunities, and I shared examples with the youth on how our strongest candidates at Central Desktop conduct themselves throughout the interview process. Following the [...]

Here at Central Desktop, we recognize that we’re a very fortunate set of employees. Especially during the holiday season, it’s important to reflect back on all that we are thankful for and take the time to give back to those who aren’t as fortunate. This year, the Central Desktop team organized a food drive for [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]