Guillaume Pascual
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Make reporting the news easier
A recent fire at UK power station gave us a great example of the benefit of Uplink. If you don’t know what Uplink is, it’s a great way to help others share large files using the power of your Hightail account. Send your personalized link for a unique Hightail page to anyone and…
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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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Customer spotlight: ocreations
Nina Zivkovic is a graphic designer and illustrator at Pittsburgh design studio, ocreations. With a range of capabilities from branding and advertising to print and web design, ocreations provides local startups and multinational corporations with a fresh and creative look. She talked to us about Process Orange, pool table meetings and…
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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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Productivity
Seven tips for escaping your creative rut
We’ve all been there. The place where a creative task seems so obstinately unsolvable that staring at your screen or a blank sheet of paper is no longer helping. When you find yourself stuck in that seemingly inescapable rut, try these seven tips for rediscovering your creative spark. 1. Go…
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Customer stories
Seven steps to happiness: how ad agencies use Hightail to be more productive
“Advertising is based on one thing: happiness” Don Draper, Mad Men Every day, ad agencies across the world attempt to deliver happiness to their clients. But the modern world is much more complicated than in the days of Sterling Cooper and 21st century clients have ever-changing and multi-faceted needs. Coming…
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Three ways to create killer campaigns using Hightail
Global marketing and communications agency CHI & Partners helps brands like Best Buy, Lexus, British Gas and Samsung reach new audiences with killer, award-winning campaigns. Creating successful campaigns means ensuring the firm’s dispersed teams can work together effectively and keep their creative juices flowing, without facing file size frustrations, needing…
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Prevent accidental deleting from shared folders
Hightail has just released a great new control option that helps people work together online without the risk of files being accidentally deleted. Usually when you share a folder with clients, colleagues or contractors, you decide whether they have full editing capabilities or can just view the content. Now, Hightail…
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Hightail partners with CA Technologies for improved enterprise experience
Hightail has partnered with CA Technologies to enable SAML Single Sign-on (SSO) for its users via the CA SiteMinder and CA CloudMinder applications. Companies using CA SiteMinder and CA CloudMinder can now seamlessly deploy Hightail and provide an improved SSO experience for their users across all of Hightail applications. CA Technologies…
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Customer Spotlight: North by Northwest
“From the moment we capture an image with a video camera, all the way through the edit process and the final delivery, our number one goal and what we pride ourselves on is high quality.” – Brad Kaup, Editor North by Northwest Founded:1990 What they do: Full-service digital studio focused…
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Little Moments Add Up To BIG Opportunities
You’ve got a couple of minutes in between meetings, or while waiting in line for coffee. Why not pull out your smartphone and check Facebook or the latest activity of your favorite sports team? It’s hard to use that time for “useful” work, and it seems harmless to spend a few minutes…
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Integrating existing on-premise storage with the cloud
If you‘ve been in the Information Technology sector for any length of time, you’ve already experienced this scenario. A new and better technology emerges that everyone adopts, or at least would like to adopt. Think ECM (Enterprise Content Management) in the early 90s and then on-premise storage portals and sites…
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Out of office. In control.
Here at Hightail, we are all about control (not in a weird way) and especially giving you control (again, not in a weird way). But that control shouldn’t change just because you’re out of the office. So we’ve just updated our iOS app to add the same sharing controls you…
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Six tricks to get your creative juices flowing
Have you ever found yourself carefully examining the intricate patterns of dust particles on the window by your desk at work? Or caught yourself staring at your computer screen unable to come up with another comprehensible thought? In other words, have you ever been stuck in a rut, had writers…
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