At Teambox, we’re focused on helping businesses redefine collaboration and communication, and ultimately, helping redefine the future of work, through our one-stop collaboration platform. In 2013, we reinforced our relentless pursuit of this goal through significant growth and evolution in our product offering, including:

HD video conferencing for desktops, mobile devices and tablets within the Teambox platform
The industry’s first secure, on-premise collaboration solution that organizations within highly regulated industries and others seeking a high standard of control over their data and technology infrastructure can host from behind their own firewall
Gmail and Outlook plugins, to make it easy to convert emails into tasks and access Teambox without leaving the email inbox

Steve Jobs promoted it, David Bowie jumped on it, and even former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were surprised by it. We’re talking about team collaboration, of course, and it’s one of the most powerful strategies there is when it comes to achieving personal and professional wow!

In fact, the ability to work and communicate with others – and as a team – is more important than ever. A recent McKinsey & Company study shows that improved communication and collaboration through social technologies could raise the productivity of interaction workers by 20 to 25 percent.

Aside from higher productivity (as if that’s not enough), collaboration leads to other amazing results! Think Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Intrigued?

Here are some of our favorite examples.

Recently, we reached out to the author of an insightful new collaboration book – Creative Conspiracy: The Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration. The author, Professor Leigh Thompson, is the the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Her work has been referenced by NBC News, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and many others.

Creative Conspiracy provides groundbreaking insight into the world of creative collaboration. In her book, she dispels many commonly held beliefs about creative teams. According to Dr. Thompson, collaboration that is planned and focused on creating new ideas produces excitement and builds a “creative conspiracy” within your team.

Professor Thompson was kind enough to share a few excerpts from her book. Check out this sneak peek into breakthrough collaboration.

Everyone loves a winner and well, we here at Redbooth are no different! We were so jazzed to get the notification this week that we won a Best in Biz Awards Silver Award in the Small/Medium Size Business category for Product of the Year.

What’s even more gratifying is that the Best In Biz awards are the only independent business awards judged by members of the press and industry analysts, so a very objective bunch.

Gantt charts facilitate collaboration. Everyone sees the same plan and has a common understanding of what needs to be done to accomplish the goal.

Last month, we interviewed the team at Pyrrhic Studios on how they are utilizing our project management software in an industry (mobile app development) with a lot of moving pieces.

Pyrrhic Studios is a startup video game developer focused on mobile apps. Their development team is based out of three different countries, with the closest team members living over 1000 miles from each other. Their biggest challenge – managing their virtual team who are spread across the globe.

Check out their story.

We’ve been nominated. The 2013 Silicon Valley Business App Awards (SVBA Awards) are coming up (November 13th) and Teambox is excited about being recognized, along with some other amazing applications, for our productivity app.

The SVBA Awards was created to recognize leading app developers. More importantly, this event is also a platform for assisting the developer community improve their innovations by highlighting new strategies and best practices.

The awards are given for both individual and collective efforts, selected by an eminent Jury comprising leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley.