We’re doing our spring cleaning here at Agilewords. This means a new face for the website (no, we’re not done yet!) and a new look for our online document collaboration service as well. Here’s a little screen shot of what we rolled-out on Friday:

We realized we have a lot of features [...]

Let’s discuss the scenario and all the things that can go wrong with document collaboration.
Nightmare Number One: Security
You sent a document that was not received. Or perhaps you found a portion of your document online somewhere, bootlegged. Maybe one of your reviewers discovered a worm or virus on his computer. You place your document at [...]

“I have Microsoft Word. Why isn’t that enough for me to write, proofread, edit and produce my business document?”
The answer to the question above is multi-level, but it comes down to the basic idea that there is no way of sharing documents directly in MS Word.
Business documents requiring editing, subject matter expert or client review, [...]

Agile:
In a new era, agile has taken on a new meaning. The traditional definition, according to Webster’s, is: “quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble; mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.”
An agile mind!
Working “agilely” creates an agile mind, and it is possible due to agile minds. The purpose of the agile process is to [...]

We’re redesigning our website, our community AND our application! Yes, we’re pretty busy these days here @Agilewords. Our plan is to have all of the above mentioned changes done by next week. We’re also hoping you’ll love them just as much as we do. Preferably more actually, but that’s totally negotiable!
So here are a few [...]

Our solutions are based on the premise of collaboration. What we’re basically trying to do here is give people suggestions on how they can better themselves or their companies (regarding teamwork and general collaboration). So if you’re interested in that you’ll want to read more of our articles, and check out these great collaboration [...]

Open collaboration vs structured collaboration is one of the main debates in collaborative writing and editing. We’ve shown you what we think of this in a previous post on wikis and structured collaboration. Today we dig a bit deeper.
Let’s start by stating the obvious: people need leaders. We can’t all be leaders, that would result [...]

We found a lot of “goodies” at the begining of this week, and even a few more today. We don’t want to get you all confused so we’re going to split them up in collaboration related articles and tech writing articles. Here it goes:
Collaboration:

Mastering  collaboration (white paper)
Collaborating with Salespeople Provides Unfiltered Information
Objectives of Players in [...]

Most people prefer working in teams, rather then alone. If you ask them, some might prefer to work alone sometimes (ie. when they have to focus on something urgent). Others would rather work from home a few days per week. But the vast majority would seriously dislike doing this five days a week. There are  [...]