Category: Collaboration

Collaboration is key to be successful in business. If you want to grow your business the whole team has to find a way to work together. In the past you got stuck in meeting room after meeting room. Nowadays there a many digital tools to help you collaborate.

There are different ways you can let people work together. The most common thing is to digitalize the meeting room. There are many videoconferencing systems which let you setup a virtual meeting, with audio or with audio and video. Most well known is probably Cisco WebEx, but new players like Zoom are also very popular.

Unified Communications

The next step after videoconferencing is unified communications. You can collaborate on more different ways than audio and video. For example by sending text messages to each other. Tools like Microsoft Teams, Cisco Teams, Slack, Yammer are all good examples of tools that can help people work better together.

Platforms

Besides unified communications there are a lot of platforms that come close to offering a way to collaborate. Task managers for multiple users like Asana, or tools in which coworkers can work together in realtime on the same document or presentation. There are many tools that can increase productivity and collaboration, you just have to find the right one for your business.

Zoom CEO: Zoom doesn’t allow colleagues to have good debates

Zoom CEO: Zoom doesn’t allow colleagues to have good debates

At the height of the pandemic, Zoom became a platform of global prominence. Everyone went "Zooming" when office life was temporarily impossible. By now, working from home is ingrained in many a company. However, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan thinks it's better to come into the office more often anyway. Becaus... Read more

date7 months ago
“Offices will die out without accurate data”

“Offices will die out without accurate data”

Soon after the Covid-19 pandemic struck, employees around the globe got used to the fact that work could be done from home. However, many companies opted to quickly reverse this policy. In 2023, many business leaders nevertheless regret the decision to encourage or impose office attendance again, a... Read more

date8 months ago
New APIs and developer platform for Lucid Software

New APIs and developer platform for Lucid Software

Lucid Software has unveiled new APIs and a developer platform along with it. These innovations are already being put to use by Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow and Notion, and others. Lucid touts the Visual Collaboration Suite as useful for creating applications and integrations to make collaborati... Read more

date8 months ago
The end is near for videoconferencing platform BlueJeans

The end is near for videoconferencing platform BlueJeans

Verizon has decided to no longer offer the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans. The telecom operator lists "changed market conditions" as the main reason for the discontinuation. Verizon bought the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans in 2020 during the height of the Covid pandemic. At the time... Read more

date8 months ago
Zoom lets organizations share YouTube videos with Zoom Clips

Zoom lets organizations share YouTube videos with Zoom Clips

Zoom is introducing the Zoom Clips tool. It allows users to record and share short videos for offline collaboration. The immediately available Zoom Clips tool allows employees to support each other with video or exchange important information when they are unable to meet physically via the video... Read more

date8 months ago
Google Calendar lets users specify office attendance more precisely

Google Calendar lets users specify office attendance more precisely

Google Calendar now allows users to specify more precisely where a worker is located on a given day. Previously, the option existed to schedule a work day by default for home or office work, for example. The feature can be helpful in a team to coordinate when someone is in the office, as it can ... Read more

date9 months ago
Teams goes for compactness and cuts clicks in June

Teams goes for compactness and cuts clicks in June

Teams received improvements in June which reduce the number of clicks, provide more overview and make conversations more natural. Microsoft brings new features to its communications platform Teams regularly. To keep an overview, Microsoft releases an overview of the new features every month, wh... Read more

date9 months ago
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