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
In our previous post, we talked about setting a S.M.A.R.T. goal and said we'd give you an example from our own yard, so here it is!This is how we do itWe thought it would be nice to suggest you try out ActiveCollab in your native language. So, if you’re from Portugal and you’re visiting our site ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
QuickBooks integration upgradeWe hope you already know we integrate QuickBooks with ActiveCollab to help you get paid efficiently. Anyway, December 17th is the deadline for upgrading the way both systems communicate. “But that’s a few weeks away!” - you might say. Exactly. We like to approach matters ...
Recaps • • 3 min read
September is an exciting month this year for ActiveCollab! We haven’t been sitting on our ears. Instead, we’ve listened to your needs and requests carefully, and tidied up. Maybe you’ve been using our timer so far to track your billable and non-billable hours. We’ve got some news for you! Now ...
Product • • 2 min read
Tl;dr we have a dark theme now.For you who enjoy reading, worry not.As the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, neon stands for a chemical element that is a gas with no smell or color, does not react with other chemicals, and shines red when an electric current goes through it.Here at ActiveCollab, we define ...
Product • • 2 min read
Oh, no!Your Lead Dev just won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas.Your Project Manager finished an Ironman (the triathlon, not the movie trilogy) and won’t show up at work for a week.The ground starts shaking, your hands start sweating.It sure feels like all hell broke loose.Fortunately, those ...
Product • • 3 min read
A brand-new ActiveCollab is finally here! Bigger and better in just about every way possible, with a whole slew of awesome new and enhanced features.It’s been over a decade since the first version of ActiveCollab came out. What began as a humble two-person venture, soon grew beyond our wildest dreams ...
Product • • 5 min read
Humans love expressing things in numbers. By assigning plain numerical values to abstract concepts, we feel like we can understand and control them better. We also associate higher values with better quality, a preconception marketing often seeks to exploit (“The sequel will be bigger, better, with ...
Marketing • • 4 min read
For those of you who’ve been looking to collaboration, this is going to be a great day. The Reactions are up and running in ActiveCollab 5.15.0! We are bringing you a new way to make your day-to-day communication more expressive and engaging.Not all comments are created equal. More often than not ...
Product • • 1 min read
Imagine a beach. Late summer, when it’s still warm and pleasant, but no longer too hot. Soft sand glittering under the morning sun, palm trees swaying in the breeze. The waves, high and imposing, drawing you in, daring you to take up the surfboard and mount them.Now, doing outreach can easily compare ...
Marketing • • 4 min read
You say that you think things through when setting your goals. But, are you actually being smart about it?If businesses were to set their primary goal, it would boil down to something like: “Earn as much profit as possible.” However, if you were to give this task to a new employee (and leave it at ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
How to Master Project Management with a Single ToolJumping from one tool to another can be a huge energy drainer. Stop wasting your energy trying to be productive. Instead, choose one centralised hub that will help you master the art of project management.As a fully-fledged project manager, you’ve ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Change can be hard to swallow, especially if your team isn’t familiar with the benefits it brings. Be proactive and help your team realize that a new project management tool is not a means of control but a perfect way to move the business forward.Propelled by the idea that one tool would minimize multitasking ...
Project Management • • 5 min read