It’s easy to get bogged down in silos at work, with each employee isolated, working on their specific deliverables. This can leave your employees feeling disengaged and disconnected from your company’s mission, and their unique part in activating it. One effective way for reigniting your employees’ passion around the corporate mission, while getting them reacquainted with their colleagues, is to host some form of structured creative thinking activity.

With just a few keystrokes at any time of the day, we’re able to communicate and engage with people from across the globe … and great things are happening! Take a look at how some people are changing the world through global collaboration.

Late last year, Redbooth sat down with IDC’s Research Manager of Enterprise Social Networks and Collaborative Technologies, Vanessa Thompson, to discuss the impact that cloud collaboration has on worker productivity. Read on for her insights on trends in productivity.

When a company or organization fosters and promotes collaboration among its staff, good things happen. And few companies do it better than Google.

When it comes to collaboration and teamwork, it’s easy to get frustrated. These top 5 collaboration TED Talks will give you a much-needed boost!

Oh sure, everyone loves it when a plan comes together.

With successful collaborations, the rewards are great, the high-fives and back-pats are plentiful, and you can go to sleep at night knowing that your team did a fantastic job.

But then there are the times when, in spite of valiant efforts, an attempt at teamwork goes down the toilet. Take a look at some of these famous failed collaborations, and the lessons we can learn from them.

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