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Tear down this collaboration firewall
Most people had probably never heard of a firewall until the day their company network stopped them from visiting a website. That was back when the web—with its news sites, social networks and games—was seen as the ultimate productivity drain. These days we are genuinely reliant on the internet in…
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Five creative process tools for the right-brain marketer
19th century department store tycoon John Wanamaker is credited with inventing the money-back guarantee, hiring the first full-time copywriter and being the first retailer to realize the power of full-page newspaper ads. Despite his belief in the power of advertising, this pioneer of modern marketing was also enough of realist…
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Three key shifts in the design industry
This article was originally published in Computer Arts. Fred Deakin is Professor of Digital Arts at University of the Arts, London and runs Collabology, an experimental educational initiative that readies students for working in the creative industry by encouraging greater collaboration. He outlines three key shifts happening in the design…
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The cloud storage business is dead (and that’s good for you)
In the late 1800s, the new electric utility industry was a free-for-all. Direct current (DC) motors could only supply power to customers within a one-mile radius of the generating plant, so there was opportunity for many players to get in the game. When Samuel Insull took over as President of…
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Nine reasons why your designs should start with a sketch
An amended version of this post was originally published on the ocreations blog. Founder and president of Pittsburgh-based design firm ocreations and Hightail user, Shawn O’Mara tells us why the pencil thumbnail sketch still has a place in the fast-paced world of digital design. I have been in the field…
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Go guerrilla! Five unorthodox ways to market your brand
An amended version of this post was originally published by Entrepreneur. Before a million pails of cold water brought the disease to global attention, many people had never heard of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. But after a summer of ice bucket challenges, the devastating motor neuron disorder now has an…
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Storage Wars: Attack on the Clones
An amended version of this post was originally published at Information Week. In the same year that production will begin on a new Star Wars movie, a different type of battle will rage in a cloud far, far away. 2014 is set to be a landmark year for the file storage…
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The Snowden Effect: who controls my data?
An amended version of this post was originally published at Information Week. Last month, Reuters reported that U.S. tech firms doing business in China—including Cisco and IBM—had experienced significant declines in sales. Several industry analysts suggested that the “Snowden Effect”—the cascade of events and reports that followed Edward Snowden’s leaks…
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The “cloud” is dead, long live the cloud
This post was originally posted in the Huffington Post. Two young fish are swimming along when an older fish passes and says, “G’morning, how’s the water?” The pair continues swimming then one turns to the other and says, “what the heck is water?” I always think of this joke when I…
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Know the cloud’s table stakes before going all-in
In business, as in poker, table stakes are the value you bring that allows you to play the game. They are the features and experiences that services must offer customers to even be considered relevant. As a relatively new industry, online file sharing and storage services have so far been…
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Five ways the cloud will change your professional life in 2014
This post was originally posted in the Huffington Post. If 2013 was the year in which we finally understood the cloud, this year will be all about making the most of storing and sharing files online. As a professional user of a file sharing service, now is the time to…
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Three essential values for securing the cloud
This post was originally posted in Wired Innovation Insights. In September 2013, my company AdeptCloud was acquired by Hightail and I moved from providing a private cloud service to secure file sharing in the public cloud. The switch has been fascinating and I’ve learned three key attributes of public cloud…
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A design for life (not just a device)
Christian Crumlish is the Director of Product at CloudOn. CloudOn makes Microsoft Office® (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) files more accessible and useful on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch letting you edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations from anywhere with all the functionality you need. photo credit: Josh Luna / WebVisions As…
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Day one of building a new brand
To say that I’ve been thinking a lot about branding lately is something of an understatement. From the moment I joined the company, the idea of changing YouSendIt’s name has been the subject of much deliberation and discussion. After all, changing the name of a well-known service used by over…
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Say hi to Hightail
Welcome to Hightail I’m thrilled to announce that YouSendIt has changed its name to Hightail. We’ve been planning, preparing, designing and developing our new brand for many months and it’s exciting to finally reveal it to the world. Hightail is a new identity that represents the current breadth of our…
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