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The CollaborateUp 2020 Collaboration in Crisis & COVID-19 Interactive Roundtable Series
CollaborateUp will be hosting a series of virtual, interactive roundtable discussions on collaboration in crisis, with a specific emphasis on multi-sector collaboration to combat COVID-19. Listen to past roundtables or join our upcoming roundtables to contribute your...
Virtual Platform Comparison Tool
To help you more efficiently meet online, we compared a number of virtual platforms across functionalities. We've included some personal experiences and tips in the very bottom row. Virtual-Platform-Comparison-ToolDownload If you have experiences to share or platforms...
Faith & COVID-19
DC-Area Faith-Leaders Responding to Coronavirus CollaborateUp and the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington, DC hosted an interactive roundtable and media briefing on how faith leaders and faith organizations are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. This is the...
CollaborateUp’s Menu of Virtual Services
The basic unit of human collaboration is the meeting. In this new reality of virtual meetings, it's important to get our arms around what it means to meet and collaborate with colleagues and peers outside of the office. There are a variety of virtual meeting...
Most Virtual Meetings Suck. Here’s How to Make Them Better!
If COVID-19 enforced working-from-home means endless badly run teleconferences, I quit. Fortunately, virtual meetings don’t actually all have to be “A Conference Call in Real Life” (which if you haven’t seen, stop reading now and watch it and “A Video Conference in...
Collaboration in Quarantine – Eight Ways to Collaborate Virtually
Like many people, I’ve spent the last few days wading through a cavalcade of potentially cancelled meetings as travel restrictions and quarantines extend around the world. Rather than out-right cancel or postpone to some indefinite point in the future, at...
4 Things “Big Tobacco” can Teach us About Controversial Conversations at the Holidays
Recently, several friends and colleagues have said some version to me of, “This isn’t who I am, Richard. I’m not that kind of person, but honestly, I just don’t have any friends anymore who voted for [fill in the blank]. I just don’t know how to talk to them.” During...
Making Backbone Organizations Work
Getting people from across the public, private, and civil sectors to effectively work together comes down to one fundamental question: how do you get people to work with you who don’t work for you? Humans excel at getting people to work with us who do work for us....
Enough with all the Cost-Plus Contracting Already
Tackling 3 Myths Around Cost-Plus Contracting from our CEO and Master Collaborator, Richard Crespin I’ve worked in government contracting on-and-off for nearly three decades, supporting federal defense, intel, and civilian agencies. And in all that time, I...
Co-Creation, the BAA, and the Nature of Humanity
Four Tips for Unlocking Creativity without Short-Circuiting Your Brain from our CEO & Master Collaborator, Richard Crespin Imagine you had lived your whole life up to this point under a benign dictatorship. You live under the dictator’s strict regimen of rules...