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
Customer story written by Jeff Wright, owner of mobile digital agency LineWeightAs a web and mobile design agency that also provides copywriting, marketing, photography, here at LineWeight, we needed a project management system that could not only handle the diversity of our project types but also seamlessly ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Your creative process is halted because you’re not getting good feedback from clients. Likes and dislikes aren’t getting you closer to finishing project. Worse still, you’re wasting too much time waiting for an email that tells you very little about what’s really important.You have been using ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Written by Izaak Crook, Digital Marketing Executive at AppInstituteRead how Izaak, a digital marketing executive from AppInstitute, uses ActiveCollab to keep content marketing processes running smooth.I’m Izaak, I work as a Digital Marketing Executive in the Marketing Department at AppInstitute, one ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
A positive organizational culture isn’t about ping-pong tables or forced smiles, but about trust, clarity, and how people treat each other when things get tough. Get it right, and you’ll build a team that performs, sticks around, and actually enjoys showing up on Monday.
Team Collaboration • • 9 min read
Some managers believe that handling and leading a team of creatives can be very similar to taking care of preschool children: they sleep (procrastinate) when they want, they play (work) when they see fit and often whine if things are not to their liking. But does this group delivers results? Oh boy ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of ActiveCollab? They both have the same features so the decision depends on the structure of your company.Self-hosting is great if you plan on using ActiveCollab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members.If on the other hand you don't want ...
Product • • 4 min read
You have 15 minutes at your disposal and want to know the basics of all leadership theories? This is THE post for you! It will provide you with essential information about all theories, the main idea behind each one, and a bunch of excellent links if you would like to further your research. So let’s ...
Team Collaboration • • 9 min read
Why is your team successful? Why is your team failing? Dr. Belbin has an answer.Dr. Raymond Meredith Belbin is the leading authority on team roles. His research and knowledge, which spanned more than 40 years, showed that it is more important how members fit together than how smart they individually ...
Team Collaboration • • 5 min read
Customer story written by Alejandro Esbozos from BlocdeesbozosHi all! My name is Alejandro Esbozos, I’m Spanish, run Blocdeesbozos, a marketing consultancy company, and I’m a proud customer of ActiveCollab. I use ActiveCollab for task management, and it has improved communication and collaboration ...
Customer Stories • • 4 min read
Imagine having a team of 400,000 people working for years on a project that could change the notion of what was previously thought of as possible. Succeed, and you get a glowing page in the history books. Fail, and you waste billions of dollars, and potentially, three human lives.Oh, and the entire thing ...
Team Collaboration • • 7 min read
Today, Agile is such a buzzword that even teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But Agile is not for everyone.For example, a marketing agency can never implement Agile, because clients don't want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
When people share an elevator ride, they are a group; when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team.Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor, or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read