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How to Hightail
How to collaborate across individuals and teams in Hightail
These days, creative teams can be pretty complex. It’s common to see senior and junior team members, internal and external stakeholders, third-party vendors and contingent workers all working together on the same project. The good news is that Hightail is built for collaboration, no matter what the makeup of your…
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Team collaboration
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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Productivity
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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Our latest collaboration: Hightail is now OpenText™
In February, we announced the exciting news that Hightail was acquired by OpenText™, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). This news opens many new doors for Hightail and our customers. Over the past three years, since the release of Hightail’s creative collaboration features (Hightail Spaces), we’ve designed an…
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Customer stories
Unleashing the power of collaboration with Polycom
Polycom is a collaboration communications provider headquartered in San Jose, California. We spoke with Senior Video Production Manager, Tim Rose, about life as a punk rocker, the importance of the production process and how Hightail changed the way Polycom gets feedback on videos. Polycom helps organizations unleash the power of…
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Productivity
Put on a show: four tips for presenting your work
During the process of rebranding as Hightail, we worked with creative agency, Siegel+Gale, to replace our outdated moniker, YouSendIt. The agency has been responsible for changing Master Charge to MasterCard and named the BlackBerry, so we knew we were in good hands. After much research and discussion, a meeting was…
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Productivity
Eight tips for beating deadlines
In a recent survey of creative professionals conducted by Hightail, we found that an astonishing 34% of people had missed a deadline in the past 12 months. Yet this figure is not that remarkable when you consider how complex creative projects are these days. To make an impact in today’s…
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Creative collaboration is going Spaces
Today, I’m excited to announce the general release of Spaces, our new creative collaborative platform. Having launched a beta version of Spaces earlier in the year, we’re now ready to open it up to the wider world of creative professionals, from design firms and ad agencies to marketing departments and…
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Connect Spaces to Hightail
Our latest beta release of Hightail Spaces is a big one for existing Hightail users. Now when you’re logged in to www.hightail.com, you can access Spaces directly from the main navigation bar and sign in using your Hightail username and password. You will also be able to upload files to…
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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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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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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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