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The 4 pillars of creative content collaboration
In order for creative collaboration to be effective, you have to put the right building blocks in place from the beginning – so that everything won’t come tumbling down later on! Two building blocks are the most important of all: people and the right allocation of tools and other resources. It…
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Why Use Content Collaboration?
The makeup of creative teams has changed. Remote or hybrid work is the “new normal” – meaning many teams nowadays are distributed by default. And teams comprising full-time employees, contingent workers and third-party service providers are now commonplace. Because of this, content collaboration is more important than ever to the…
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Remote collaboration built for creatives
Keep your teams organized. Manage creative projects with tools made for visual content. Start a project to manage creative assets, feedback, decisions and approvals in one place. That’s the power of Hightail.
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The 6-Steps Creatives Use to Collaborate Remotely
The last two years accelerated our move to hybrid work, but that’s not when remote collaboration started. With a growing reliance on digital tools, we’ve been working together across vast distances for a number of years. But some creatives still use collaboration methods best suited for in-person offices. That means…
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6 tips for writing a creative brief
If you’ve ever suffered through a difficult client/agency relationship, you’ll know what a frustrating experience it can be. As the client you feel like you’re not getting the agency’s best work and are wasting your money. Meanwhile the agency tears out its hair at your indecisiveness, while submitting new stories…
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5 ways our Adobe extension cuts down on distractions
Stay in the zone with our Adobe extensions Creatives know that it’s all about getting into the fabled ‘zone.’ We all have different strategies for it – some of us block off our calendars, some of us jam to our favorite playlists and some of us pray to the creative…
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Give Effective Feedback While Working Remotely: 8 Best Practices
While giving feedback has become increasingly challenging in today’s remote work environment, it plays a critical role in creating a more productive team. That’s because feedback: Helps foster healthy communication between you and your team.Encourages the professional growth and development of your team members.Helps you refine your systems and processes…
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10 Essential Workflow Management Tips For Designers
Optimizing your workflow is vital for being more productive. It will allow you to work faster and better, not harder, and it will help you save time you can use for other important activities in your life. In this article, you’ll discover 10 essential workflow management tips that will help…
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Automate repetitive tasks by connecting Hightail to your other favorite apps using Zapier
Why do busy work when you can get your favorite apps to work together and do it for you? Hightail Teams or Business accounts can now connect to Zapier to automate many tasks tied to other apps available in the Zapier marketplace. (There are currently more than 3,000 of them.)…
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7 tips to help you stay focused in the new world of work
With so many people still working from home, we’ve all become used to a different way of working. And in addition to the usual email, phone and instant message distractions, we now have to contend with navigating around the family cat to use the keyboard, stopping for a quick tea…
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Pro tips for briefing remote agency teams
Teams within an organization are “probably the single most important business function” according to Jack Skeels of AgencyAgile. During a recent Hightail webinar, he said, “They’re the core of all organizations that deliver the work. The velocity of how fast those teams are moving is how fast the organizations will.”…
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A fresh look for Hightail.com
You might have noticed that we have a new look over at Hightail.com. What’s your first impression? If you said that it’s clean and to the point (like the overwhelming feedback we received internally), then we’ve stayed true to the original brief that was drafted and agreed upon for this…
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#WinningAtWFH: What one UI/UX designer does to keep things interesting in self-quarantine
See the lady in the image? That’s my friend Kristin, who is currently working from home in her role as lead UI/UX designer. And during a recent virtual happy hour, I realized she is also my “work-from-home hero.” I used Hightail to highlight some of things she is doing that…
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7 tips to turn “occasionally” working from home into the longer haul
Sure, you’ve probably worked from home when you’ve been waiting for a mattress delivery or have been feeling under the weather. In fact, according to a 2016 Gallup survey, 43 percent of those surveyed do telecommute sometimes, for two days a month on average. But the coronavirus pandemic means that…
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A 2019 review of the best file sharing solutions for marketing and creative teams
I’m sure you’re aware of how critical file sharing is to your daily business operations. Whether sending project files to a colleague, or presenting drafts to clients, teams need the ability to share content quickly and easily. But are your teams hitting roadblocks just trying to simply share a file?…
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