The Diving Board: GroupSwim's Blog

Finding an expert isn’t easy. Sometimes they make themselves available and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they say they are an expert and sometimes they don’t identify themselves. Generally speaking, there are 2 ways...

I’ve had several users try GroupSwim but decide against going too far in a trial because they knew they eventually would have to pay for the service. I know there are many “free” services that we all use. Personally, I...

Testing. The very word can send shivers down my spine. In the sports realm, it means finding out who’s the fastest, strongest, most agile – and no one likes to be the slowest, weakest, or least agile. In school, it can mean a...

When we get together to work on new products, business challenges or anything related to making GroupSwim a better (insert noun here) product, company, service, etc; we always try to make sure we are asking the RIGHT question. This is an...

Traditionally, TMI was a TLA (three letter acronym) for “Too Much Information”. It was historically used as a joke term when someone went too far in describing a personal situation or problem that was off color or too detailed....

Check out the coverage here. Ben Kepes, an accomplished blogger, is a guest blogger on the site and was kind enough to feature GroupSwim. Enjoy!Note: If you would like to comment on this post, please go here. Thanks.

One of the advantages of my position at GroupSwim is I get to see lots of customers and their sites. It affords me the opportunity to observe what works and what doesn’t work. I’ve concluded that there is one thing that is...

There is one thing we do here at GroupSwim that we never boast about; all of us bike to work (both in San Francisco and Sweden). I admit I was a little intimidated when I first joined the team. I don’t think I had consistently rode...

I’ve been thinking about the difference between implementing a collaboration application for business versus more traditional applications like ERP, CRM, etc. (insert other acronym here). I’ll try not to be biased but I believe...

After two weeks of being an intern, I feel like I’m getting the hang of it. For starters, my feelings towards BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, e.g. subway) have changed dramatically. What was once a form of public transportation with...

The thought occurred to me that we could use tags in GroupSwim to manage workflow. What I mean by this is use tags to dynamically assign work to users/groups/teams in a GroupSwim site and monitor them in real time. I’m not talking...

Well, the conference is over and it was quite an experience. Tom McCleary and I met tons of people and had lots of fun. See Tom working his magic. (image) The mix of people who attended was impressive. There were vendors, CIOs and other...

Well, Day 1 of the conference is in the books. We had a great time today. Here are some observations: Standing all day demoing GroupSwim is tough on the dogs; bring comfy shoes if you have themWhen people offer to give you their business...

Well, our first conference this year is around the corner. If you have never presented or hosted a booth at one of these things, I highly recommend you keep it that way. Just kidding. There is a pile of work to get ready for these...

Sarah Perez, who is an awesome blogger for Read Write Web, did a piece on the LaunchPad contest for Enterprise 2.0. Even though we’ve never spoken with her, she did a great job summarizing GroupSwim. We very much appreciate the...

We are in the process of refreshing our website, sales materials, presentation for Enterprise 2.0 (more posts on that later) and find ourselves in an interesting situation. Our product provides value for many different economic buyers. ...

The Launch Pad organizations are kindly issuing a press release on the 5 contestants who made the cut (they let Sun into the finals based on some “data” issues). The press release is below. We’ve also learned that we get 5...

We are very pleased to announce that GroupSwim is in the Final 4 of the LaunchPad Contest at Enterprise 2.0. The competition has been going for several weeks. The first round included 16 companies. Each one published a 1 minute video and...

Email changed the world for business and consumer alike. Imagine it; a cheap and easy way to communicate with each other without using voicemail, fax, or the post office. While a boon for business communication, email has significant flaws...

We are big fans of Google Docs. In particular, we like the Spreadsheets application and use it extensively in conjunction with GroupSwim’s other collaboration features. Our team is globally distributed and works in three different...