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The Benefits of Online Collaboration Tools

palons — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:46:01 +0200

Over the past years working in teams has become one of the moste important aspects in the modern workplace. Because of the use of internet, which is widespread available, members from all over the world can join the team. This makes it hard for everybody to keep track of the work process. So for teamwork to be effective, it is important for companies to think of a modern way of working which involves a simple and efficient way of working. This is where online collaboration tools come in.

It’s easy to keep track of projects
Team members van be anywhere
Ease of reporting
Actions are done quickly
Documents are all stored in a single place.

Read more about the benefits of online collaboration tools | About.com –Mobile Office Technology @ http://sqr.io/JONHQh

Video

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:26:00 +0200

Just spotted in today’s TU Delft’s weekly newspaper...

palons — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:33:00 +0200

Just spotted in today’s TU Delft’s weekly newspaper @TUDelta. #TUDelft

Go to the website and sign up for our PILOT.

Sign up for #TUDelft pilot. Go to the website and sign up for...

palons — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:45:00 +0200

Sign up for #TUDelft pilot. Go to the website and sign up for our PILOT by using your TU Delft email-address (for example: J.Doe@student.tudelft.nl). You will get an invite within a week!

We will only use your information to notify you of important announcements and/or to invite you for testing a new version.

You can also follow us on twitter or like us on facebook.

Productive Web Apps (PWA) is a website where they promote...

palons — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:14:24 +0200

Productive Web Apps (PWA) is a website where they promote productive and collaboration tools which make life and work easier. They have seen the demo and reviewed Share Square. PWA thinks Share Square can help you organize your information and work. For them it can me a very productive collaboration tool.

If you want your life to be more productive you can already sign up at www.sharesquare.com.

Last week Share Square was featured on @betalist. A website were...

palons — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:00:05 +0200

Last week Share Square was featured on @betalist. A website were you can discover and get access to the latest internet startups. You can already sign up for an invite right here or check out our betali.st page.

Share Square @ CeBIT 2012

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:06 +0100

Last week Share Square visited CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT is considered by many one of the largest events globally where all major IT manufacturers unveil their latest products and exhibit their services and portfolio to key members of the media, businesses and end users. An ideal place for Share Square to show our product to potential users.

By approaching several different companies that were exhibiting their services and products at CeBIT we tried to show them what we are building by pitching and showing our latest video. The reactions we got were overwhelming. Every single company we have spoken to was very interested in Share Square.

In conclusion, we can say that being at CeBIT 2012 has been very inspiring for us and we are more determined than before to deliver the best online collaboration tool for your project work, visually. Our goal for CeBIT 2013 will be to be one of the leading companies in online collaboration, using the best digital pinboard ever, named Share Square.

Sign up for our BETA.

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:41:00 +0100

Today we started our BETA-list for people like you, who want to be part of the first users of Share Square. the best digital pinboard ever.
We will send you an invite soon.

Want to see what Share Square is about? Check our DEMO video

We will only use your information to notify you of important announcements and/or to invite you for testing a new version.

You can also follow us on twitter or like us on facebook.

Collaboration Needs

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:32:00 +0100

The illustration was made by Tommy Toll, strategic visualizer.

The way organizations work is changing. We can observe a shift in industrial design from creating physical products towards developing services. The way companies and individuals organize themselves to reach their goals is evolving equally.

In order to provide new service oriented value propositions companies need to collaborate intensively with external partners on a per project basis. Effectively companies change more into network organizations. Consider, for example the NS business card: It not only allows you to travel by train but also use OV-fiets, greenwheels, Taxi’s and hotels.

In the film and game industries this transformation has already happened, and it is completely normal to have over 20 companies specialized in things like camera, animation and production work together to deliver one movie or game (the service).

As businesses are transforming to service oriented network organizations they are also getting more and more specialized. With todays web it is easy enough to find partners because even tiny and highly specialized companies can have global reach.

Of course industrial designers are long familiar with outsourcing parts of our manufacturing and even product development but with services our partners are now ‘peers’ and these peers are interdependent upon what the others know and deliver. They really need to collaborate.

In the past technologies such as phone, email and FTP have helped us solve issues with little interdependence. We could email the specifications and upload the drawings. In fact: these tools have enabled global manufacturing as we know it.

It is the next generation of collaboration tools that is enabling us to work with remote partners with strong interdependence. This kind of collaboration is not about manufacturing in China, but rather about intimate collaboration with companies both nearby and around the world. It also affects people within an organization. It increases worker flexibility and introduces the possibility to work from home.

So what tools enable us to collaborate on projects with strong independence?

I believe they essentially (should) create shared understanding. After all: What is a message worth if the receiver does not understand?

In the literature research of my graduation thesis ‘A Tool To Facilitate Creating Shared Understanding In Virtual Design Teams’ I have found three main requirements for creating shared understanding: Sharing information, awareness of who knows what and powerful (multi-channel) communication. Today we see companies use a large collection of tools such as file shares, IM and video conferencing to satisfy these needs. With sufficient team commitment this works, but there are many risks and pitfalls.

Ever since I started to think about collaboration tools years ago the idea stuck that there should be better tools. Now I have founded a company, Share Square in the firm belief that our world is changing and we can create better collaboration tools.

Share Square is a shared online digital pinboard that enables project groups to collaboratively share and organize information. It makes documents such as word, pdf and ppt visual and lets people organize them visually, add post-its and sketch like with a real pinboard. It creates awareness by showing which documents were edited by whom and allows powerful communication by allowing people to point to shared information in real-time.

This article is written by Thatcher Peskens and published in Turn The Page - Studievereniging I.D.

Letting your employees work from home?

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:25:00 +0200

Today I found this great infographic by ColinDubrin with a decision tree, to decide whether or not it is a good idea to have people work from home.

Check the full infographic.

Fabrique-Invent launching customer.

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:06:00 +0200

As of this week Fabrique Invent is our first official customer! It marks an important milestone for Share Square. Amongst other things it shows Share Square is ready to be actually used. We are gearing up to enable actual professional use for more participants and are giving a number of private demonstrations to companies.

If you are interested, and located in the Netherlands, please send us an email. If you are elsewhere, hang tight.. Please fill in the form on our main site and have some patience. We’ll contact you as soon as we are ready for it.

A real pinboard for the office!

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:18:00 +0200

A real pinboard for the office!

YES!Delft network event a success.

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:34:00 +0200

Yesterday we demonstrated Share Square on the YES!Delft network event. showing people collaborating on three computers simultaniously.

Considering the large amount of positive feedback, a stack of new business cards and a number of people seriously interested to participate in a pilot I think we can call this a succes.Up to the next milestone!

New and New

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:16:00 +0100

Sorry to keep you from updates so long! This post marks some significant happenings for Share Square.

For those of you watching the main site, maybe not new but Rowan has joined the team for one day a week. She will be doing user interaction design and graphics. It is now her third week and picking up the work well.

Seed money. Share Square completed a first (though modest) round of investment. We are now very seriously looking to hire a full-time programmer. In fact, I had the first interview this afternoon.

Share Square B.V. Share Square is becoming incorporated. This wednesday I was at the notary to setup all the details for becoming a B.V. It signifies that we are serious in bringing Share Square to market.

Yesterday we moved office to YES!Delft. It’s the TU Delft incubator. We now have a bigger office, and lots of cool people around. What is cool about it is that it is full of entrepreneurs with good ideas.

More news soon!

Thatcher

Seedcamp

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:15:00 +0100

This week I discovered seedcamp in Londen. It appears really interesting. Lets see if we can get an invite!

New logo! New website!

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:35:00 +0100

Wowsers. This makes such a difference!

In the past months there was no real logo, and thus the site looked crappy. I couldn’t take the effort to do anything about it because it needed a real logo.

Now, Bas Janson of Stylish Media made this new pinboard logo. What do you think about it? ( I love it ). Thank you Bas!

I am very curious to hear what you think about it, so please leave some comments or something.

New guy sharing my office?

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:15:00 +0100

Ok. So the person I rent my office from told someone else he could possibley share my office with me. I’m not sure what I think about it.

When you need to concentrate peace and silence is worth a lot.

Project i/o website

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:14:00 +0200

Today this website for “project i/o” is launched. The site is currently intended to be a contact portal. Over time it can grow to be a more informational website. If you are interested in getting updates about the project i/o project, please subscribe to the newsletter.

YES!Delft network event & preview demo!

pelle-alons-deactivated20120315 — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:17:00 +0200

Monday the 16th of May there will be a network event at YES!Delft, the TUDelft High-tech incubator, and you are invited!

We at Share Square have been working really hard the past few weeks to be able to show you one of the very first real product demo’s. We are very proud to have come so far in the past few months and are curious to hear what you think of it.

The event itself has two parts. A plenary ‘show’ and ‘presentation street’. As the plenary show is already sold out you are invited for the presentation street, from 17:00 till 19:30. For more information (in Dutch) see the YES!Delft website.