Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! Last time, we talked about how your changes will be synchronized with the current version if you’re trying out ActiveCollab 8.0 and vice versa. This time, we’ll discuss new search options and easier task navigation.Improved SearchPerhaps ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Eat The Frog: tackle the hardest, important tasks first

What’s the very first thing you do at the start of your working day? Do you ease into it with some cruisy email responses, or do you jump straight into the hard tasks? The ones you’d like to ignore, but know you can’t because they’ll keep coming back to stare you down. The ones that seem to evolve ...

Productivity 8 min read

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ActiveCollab Is the Backbone of Our Work

Havelkadesign was created in Osijek (Croatia) by interior designer Jelena Havelka, who holds an MA in Interior Design diploma from the prestigious University of Westminster in London. Last year the company celebrated its first decade of successful work.Our StoryThe business adapted through the years ...

Customer Stories 1 min read

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Synchronous communication: what is it & when to use it?

Your average workplace has changed a lot. And we do mean a lot, especially over the course of the last five years. Of course, a lot of it has to do with the pandemic, but also with companies seeing that remote workers can be just as productive as those who commute to work every day.According to stats ...

Team Collaboration 9 min read

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What is ABCDE Method – Guide For Efficient Time Management

How many times have you found yourself in the middle of a trivial task only to realize half your day is gone, and you haven’t even started working on that big client proposal?Most people usually start their workdays by checking emails, following up on previous discussions, and catching up on updates ...

Project Management 7 min read

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Pareto Principle: A Guide To The 80/20 Time Management Hack

Do you believe in hacks? Maybe you’re one of those people who’ll try anything that promises to free up time in their busy schedule and let them do more with less. If that’s the case, then you’re onto something.According to an IBM report, executives believe the top two behavioral skills that are ...

Productivity 7 min read

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Upcoming Early Access Program

Hello everyone,We’re finally back from our holiday break and ready to deliver some great news on what we’ve been up to and what’s planned for the upcoming months! In our previous recap, we talked about the storage indicator in the Project Info and the time indicators that will be visible in the ...

Recaps 2 min read

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How to improve employee engagement: 9 effective tips

Are you familiar with the term “quiet quitting”? Simply put, it’s when an employee does just the bare minimum in order to keep their job. It’s a phenomenon that has been identified fairly recently and which has been gathering momentum.According to Gallup, quiet quitters make up around 50% of ...

Team Collaboration 9 min read

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Pomodoro technique – actually applicable time management method

Over two million people worldwide use the Pomodoro Technique to manage their time better, feel less overwhelmed, and actually get work done. If that number of people trust it, then it must be a method worth trying out. There are dozens of time management techniques you can try, but not all will help ...

Productivity 8 min read

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Top Stories: One Platform To Rule Them All

At Top Stories, we help brands leverage their stories in building long-lasting relationships with their followers. We like to think of ourselves as an outsourced communications department that encourages brands to pinpoint their target audiences, meditate on the content they want to communicate, shape ...

Customer Stories 3 min read