Upcoming Webinar

I’m presenting a webinar for Central Desktop on Thursday, June 10th 2010.

I’ll be covering some solutions I put into place for a healthcare PPO network and Medical Management services company. We’ll be discussing various ways that Central Desktop’s features allow for confidential collaboration between your company, your clients and third parties.

Click here to register for the webinar.

Let me know in the comments if you’re planning to attend.

Use the FastestChrome or FastestFox browser extensions to speed up Central Desktop database browsing

Ideally, you can use Central Desktop’s awesome searching abilities to find exactly what you’re looking for every time you need to. (See the earlier article on creating Quick Searches in Firefox). But sometimes you don’t remember exactly what you’re looking for, and you can get bogged down looking for your target file or database record. Especially when you can only view up to 100 records at a time. That’s where the FastestFox and FastestChrome browser extensions can help save you some time. (more…)

Strategies for avoiding Central Desktop disaster – Databases

Over on the Central Desktop forum,  the newest “Hero” of the forums, Cory Hunt, has pointed out a great workaround for those days when you “happen to lose your mind and accidentally delete all the records in your database.” (more…)

3 Ways Central Desktop Helps you Collaborate – Agility

Today we continue our three part series on ReadWriteWeb’s collaboration how-to article: “How Entrepreneurs Benefit from Collaboration.” It’s very startup-centric, but has some good points which are applicable to any organization evaluating a collaboration platform.

The RRW article gives three main areas to focus on when establishing a collaboration system: Communication, Accountability and Agility. While most SAAS collaboration tools will help you accomplish these three goals, Central Desktop adds a 4th, arguably more important goal: Integration.

On Monday we looked at their first criteria: Communication. On Tuesday we looked at Accountability, and today, the original article would have us discuss Agility. But my analysis of the article leads me to believe that the ‘Agility’ section was thrown in to leave the post with a nice, round number of points. So we’ll look at ways that I think Central Desktop can make your company more agile. (more…)

3 Ways Central Desktop Helps you Collaborate – Accountability

Today we continue our three part series on ReadWriteWeb’s collaboration how-to article: “How Entrepreneurs Benefit from Collaboration.” It’s very startup-centric, but has some good points which are applicable to any organization evaluating a collaboration platform.

The RRW article gives three main areas to focus on when establishing a collaboration system: Communication, Accountability and Agility. While most SAAS collaboration tools will help you accomplish these three goals, Central Desktop adds a 4th, arguably more important goal: Integration.

On Monday we looked at their first criteria: Communication. Today we look at Accountability, and how Central Desktop can help keep a team, from startup to enterprise, accountable. (more…)