The communication with your clients is crucial for your business, so you should always try to optimize it and get all the advantages of an efficient collaboration. Here are some more tips for better results of the projects that involve a high degree of client collaboration:
4. Use structured collaboration
As far as business collaboration goes, I [...]

Sharing no longer means email
This point was inspired by David Armano’s blog post in Harvard Business Review. I completely resonate with the points he’s making there (although he is referring more to social sharing). We had a similar blog post on using emails for sharing documents a while ago, insisting more on the business collaborations.
Email, [...]

As you might have noticed, we’ve been keeping ourselves really busy lately. We’ve not only been working on the website (the more noticeable part), but mostly working on the Agilewords application. And now we’re feeling confident enough to bring you Agilewords beta. Enjoy!
We’ve significantly improved the UI, so that you have a plug-and-play experience. We [...]

I absolutely hate this part of the group collaboration.
Does this sound too drastic? Well, it isn’t, really and I prepared all the arguments for this. You can always confirm or deny it, especially if you have arguments too, sustained by experience in group collaboration projects.
My work involves writing a lot of documents (case studies, white [...]

You should always look at the bright side of things, right? Still, sometimes a backup plan can be very useful. So, in order to prepare one, 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 [...]

Open collaboration vs. structured collaboration is one of the main debates in collaborative writing and editing. So, let’s dig a bit deeper in this topic of business collaboration.
Let’s start by stating the obvious: people need leaders. We can’t all be leaders, which would result in anarchy. That’s not a good thing to have in your [...]

Most people prefer working in teams, rather than alone. Still, if you ask them, some might prefer to work alone sometimes (i.e. when they have to focus on something urgent and they think that team work would slow them down). Others would rather work from home a few days per week – so, no team [...]

According to Pareto, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. To make people’s lives easier, you want to find the 20% of the tasks that account for the 80% of the inconveniences. When listening to fellow Technical Writers, the answer comes quite quickly: the reviewing process is supposed to take 20% of [...]

Collaboration happens when multiple people work simultaneously towards a common goal. Collaboration software are tools which try to make working together easier and more productive. There are hundreds of methodologies and approaches out there to collaboration. We want to bring the focus on one particular dimension: open vs. structured collaboration.