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: 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

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What Is Agile Marketing & How Can It Benefit Your Business?

It would be an understatement to say that agile marketing is having a bit of a moment. While it was initially viewed as a novel framework, it has since become an essential part of every discerning marketer’s toolkit. How did agile marketing become all the rage?It’s simple, actually. Taking a page ...

Marketing 8 min read

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Storage Info, ActiveCollab 8.0: Time Indicators

Hello everyone,It’s time to wrap up 2022 with a recap of all the work we’ve done on ActiveCollab in December! Last month, we talked about new search options and the list view we’re preparing for ActiveCollab 8.0. This time, we’ll go over new details in your project info and the time options we’ve ...

Recaps 2 min read

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8 ways to delegate tasks for maximum efficiency

Delegation is an essential leadership skill. Especially for growing businesses. As your client base and service offerings grow, you come face-to-face with the fact you can’t take care of everything on your own. You realize you need to start delegating and fast. If you don’t, you’ll either lose ...

Team Collaboration 10 min read

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Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View

Hello everyone,Welcome to the November edition of ActiveCollab's recaps! Before we begin discussing what we've been up to in the past month, let's review what we talked about last time: sorting tasks by their start date in My Work and in-line editing of titles of tasks and task lists, and quickly changing ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Eisenhower Decision Matrix Explained [Urgent vs. Important]

How clear are you on the difference between urgent and important? And when the time comes to work out if a task is one or the other (or perhaps both), can you do it? How do you decide?These are all questions the Eisenhower decision matrix, a task prioritization technique can help solve. If we follow ...

Project Management 9 min read

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Group Tasks by Start Date, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest ActiveCollab updates! Last month, we talked about our work on the upcoming version 8.0 of the app, specifically the list view and task filters. This time, we'll go over a new addition to My Work and the progress we’ve made with ActiveCollab 8.0.My WorkMy Work is ...

Recaps 1 min read

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How To Create a Project Roadmap? A Step-by-Step Guide

Question: What’s the best way to present your project to a group of stakeholders? A: A project roadmap, B: A 20-page Project Initiation Document, or C: A project plan?If you're struggling to answer this question, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. We get it: project management can get a bit ...

Project Management 9 min read