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New year’s eve party rule

New year

The Season for Transformation – A Productivity Resolution

With every new year comes a desire to change. We resolve to do something we have been putting off. We search for new opportunities. We go about the business of reviewing the past and planning for what is next. While it is also true that many of these resolutions fall flat (just look at the attendance at a health club in January Vs. April), when a resolution clicks with our true goals we tend to embed them in our daily behavior.

Lolcat from sambit.com

Picture credit to sambit.com

This year, at Teambox, we suggest you take a look at how you manage your relationships with business associates. If you are still working outside the Procial Network, it is time to look at how to make your communication more effective.

  1. Stop living in silos: If you are looking for data, content, or any other information in your inbox or file folders on a laptop/desktop, it is time to move this information into your Teambox and Google Docs.
  2. Stop talking in chain letters: Instead of sending group emails that require memory to figure out what on earth is going on and an amazing sense of timing to see who said what when, create conversations with threaded comments on Teambox.
  3. Store files and links to google docs. No more file hunting or requesting someone to send a latest version. No more forgetting who is invited to a file on Google Docs. Just put them in your Teambox and everyone in the project ha access.

These are just three of many ways to make productivity resolutions this year. Please comment and add a few more. After all this is all about collaboration and teamwork…right?

X-mas rules

X-mas rules

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

More musical moments

More musical moments

An exciting webcast in 2011 – Using Teambox to create a Procial community on your website

We are always trying to find inventive and helpful ways to change the way people work. A big part of this productivity layer we are dubbing the Procial Network is finding new ways to connect with the people that use our products and services. In this web session we show you how to create a public project on Teambox and us it as your Procial Network on your website.

This gives your customers and potential customerrs the ability to interact with you and each other in a manner that will attract more business and help you get people what they need. A collaborative space for your customers is a new idea that is validating how people interact. Client and prospect collaboration without your participation is beneficial. If it is in your space, it strengthens your brand.

We will show you how to have the power of a Procial community on your website in minutes.

So click here to join us on January 11th and learn how to expand your web presence.

Ultimate X-mas shopping

Ultimate X-mas Shopping

Attention affiliate marketers!

Today I want to talk about the past. Well also the future. See at Teambox we set something up a while ago and have not really made it publicly known. Well, now I feel, it is time to share.

Share what you ask?

If someone signs up for a premium account on Teambox and uses your link, you get paid 15% of their purchase! You get 15% every month or year they stay on. In the affiliate marketing universe, this is recurring revenue at its finest.

We have had the tools in Teambox that every affiliate marketer desires for months, and we know they work. All you have to do is register for a free account then go here: http://teambox.com/affiliate

The page has your link, an invite feature, tracking of all users that signup for a free account with email addresses, a tracking tool for revenue. Everything you need to run an effective campaign. And you do not need any special codes or permissions, meaning anyone can join and get paid to invite others.

So here we go, let’s see who can help us evangelize the system that will change the way people work, and get paid for doing it.

Thank you and well I guess, you’re welcome,

KG CA001

Games! Oh, games!

Games

For Entertainment You Have a Facebook. For Work You Need a Teambox.

We have learned to play in a new way online. Even my Uncle and my sister-in-law who are not the first to jump on the social interweb bandwagon have a facebook. We all know how, even if we opt to be cool and not join in, so I do not need to go into great details. Bottom line, part of social interaction is now a running stream of what you want to share with others on Zuckerberg’s mega-site.  To solidify this impact on our universe, Time made him the their Man of The Year.

So it is written, to be a part of the socialverse, the fun with friends stream, you get a Facebook. Over 550 million people agree, and soon it will be over 1 billion.

So while this is amazing for grandma getting pics of the babies and Bands and DJ’s promoting their gigs, it does not do a whole lot to make the business community more productive. That said, there is a lesson learned and this is where the Procial Network kicks in.

Imagine this:

Everyone you work with, inside your company and out, is somehow connected to you with the ability to delegate efforts, collaborate on ideas, edit content, manage projects, address issues or just update on what you are up to.

Everyone you work with is able to access this content from RSS, email, mobile apps, text and anything else they come up with in this 21st centurty (telepathy posts?).

Anyone you want to start working with is a mouse click and a welcome away.

Anything you need to find is centrally located with all of the comments that made it what it was…and as easy to find as a Google search.

The way you work is forever changed as you now can eliminate almost all of the time wasted waiting to get updates.

Imagine no more. This is what a Teambox will do for you, this is the path paved by the Procial Network. If you have not seen it, I share these concepts with Robert Scoble, the king of sharing new concepts, on his awesome site Building43.

If you are trying to find ways to be more effective, look at how you can change your efforts and use the Procial network as a way to get more done.

KG CA001