Podio Users Show the World: Sharing and Openness Win in Collaboration

13.12.12 Posted in Users by

Twice as many tasks shared than private; 80 percent more status messages than private messages.

Podio users are leading the way in proving that openness is the key to eliminating silos and collaborating efficiently. From the 200,000 organizations now on Podio, new numbers show that in all but essentially confidential situations Podio users find openness more productive.

Right after the launch of Podio, we embarked on a World Tour with leading thinkers in the world of social software. What we heard from them and early Podio users, was that sharing and peer recognition were the key to achieving goals when working together. Information silos such as email, and tools that did not show the human side of who you were working with were holding teams back.

Twice as many tasks created on Podio are shared in workspaces rather than assigned privately. For one, this brings accountability. When teams are aware of how work has been delegated it’s clear who’s responsible for it’s completion and who knows the status of the job. It also enables people to help out if they happen to know something about a particular task. Were these tasks hidden in closed systems, siting in inboxes, or stored in documents, all this would be lost with the all too familiar confusion and double work ensuing.

It’s also heartening to know that 80 percent more status messages are posted in workspaces than private messages are sent. Communicating openly when asking questions and solving problems harnesses the full knowledge of whole teams.

What do you think? We’d love to hear how you’re working and the effect of increased openness and sharing in year team.

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I'm part of the communications team, focusing on videos. Originally from the UK, I moved to Copenhagen and joined Podio in 2010. Besides Podio, I love music and have an unexplainable knowledge of almost every rap lyric ever rapped – try me.

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  • http://twitter.com/residualreach Marni Melrose

    Podio has revolutionized the way we work here. For instance we create a co-creation community for members of our online learning Academy. Our members suggest lessons to us and the other members vote on them. Also our contributing partners can fill out a webform to suggest a lesson to the members and they in turn can vote on it.

    It is also helping our product innovation. Just this morning I had our members answer how they used the lesson filter and how they would like lessons to be filtered in the future. Doing that through traditional methods would have meant we would have had to create a survey, then send an email to people to fill it out and then the answers would be stuck in the survey and all users wouldn’t be updated or see the answers. With Podio we just mentioned everyone in the space added the question and that’s it. Took all of less than a minute to implement. Traditionally I think that would have taken a half hour or more. You can see how we set up that workspace in this short video here http://www.macangel.com/training/macangel_academy

  • http://podio.com Michael Dean

    Thanks Marni, really great to hear how Podio helps you and cool to see your video too!