The Surface Hub brought about a completely new way of working and helped us with the digital transformation of our workplace. It has been almost one year since we integrated three of them into our offices, and they already replaced our projectors, flipcharts and videoconferencing equipment, but also positively impacted our work in many other ways.
Read more on how the Surface Hub influenced the daily work at IBV.
Category: General
The Power of Virtual Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes are widely used in the real world for brainstorming, workshops, team activities (and even post-it wars!). In CollaBoard, you can do everything with Sticky Notes as you would offline, and much more. Let’s have a detailed look at three scenarios for using (virtual) Sticky Notes in CollaBoard.
New CollaBoard Feature: Project Templates
In the latest version of CollaBoard (1.3.52) we implemented a new feature: project templates. These are predefined projects filled with the right tiles to easily jump-start a meeting, a brainstorming session or a workshop. At the moment you can choose from a total of six templates: here’s how to use them.
How to Make your Virtual Meetings More Personal
Having constantly productive virtual meetings is an ongoing challenge. There are many factors influencing the success of a virtual meeting, and generally, of a virtual team. Controlling and improving all of them is very difficult, if not impossible. So how to make virtual meetings more effective? What we found out is that engaging in a more personal way during and after meetings increases the level of attention. We therefore put together some tips for you to make your meetings more personal.
5 Tips for More Effective Group Work
Group work at school, university and even at the office can be a challenging assignment. It is necessary to have all team members understand each other, contribute, find compromises and reach a consistent outcome in a limited amount of time. Still, it doesn’t need to be difficult. With a few simple strategies, you can dramatically improve collaboration in your team and make group work more effective. Here are five common issues of group work solved for you.
Manage Your Projects. New Features in Version 1.3.40
We just released a new version of CollaBoard! Now it’s even easier to access and manage your projects.
When loading a project, you will now see a list of all the projects you created or joined. You can also add project titles for a clear overview. When creating a new project, you can add a title right away to speed up collaboration. Let’s see how to use these new features in detail.
Announcing new CollaBoard Partnerships!
No company is an island: we all need outstanding partners to accomplish greater and better things. This is why we are thrilled to announce that Surface Hub Distributors and Resellers ALSO, Insight, Datavision, Swisscom, Red Thread as well as It Service Provider First Frame Networkers have teamed up with IBV to bring CollaBoard to a wider audience, and help us present your new way of working.
Access your Projects in 3 Seconds: New CollaBoard Features
In our neverending quest to make your work life easier, we at IBV have released a new version of CollaBoard this week. Yes, we are always adding features to CollaBoard, and have a steady stream of ideas on how to improve teamwork. This week, however, we made a few major changes to our productivity app that will dramatically increase your productivity and conversion rates.
Customer Engagement Made Easy
In a global market, we all need to make quick decisions: evaluating all possibilities before buying a product or service is extremely difficult, if not downright impossible. In this climate, the real competitive edge is held by the companies able to create meaningful relationships with their customers, by listening to their needs and proposing the right solutions while being innovative. This is customer engagement in a nutshell, and it doesn’t have to be hard; in fact, we prepared a list of tips that will help you ensure good relationships with your clients.
How to Improve Collaboration in the Workplace
Imagine how productive your team would be if you could dramatically improve collaboration in your workplace. No more delays, unalignment, or duplicate work to stall your business, hinder your progress and make you lose precious time. Great collaboration brings increases in profit and is for some the secret to success; it is a subject that has been attracting a renewed attention in the past few years.