7 ways to make music collaboration easier with Dropbox

Neil Sethi 5 days ago

When you think about the way a band works on songs together, you might picture five kids crammed into a garage full of amps. But most of the musicians I know don’t work that way. With busy schedules and competing commitments, it’s hard to get a group in the same room at the same time on a regular basis. And what constitutes a “band” can be something completely different now that technology lets people all over the world collaborate on music. To show how these tools can help you save time and effort, here are seven tips that will make collaboration on your next project a lot easier.

Filed under: Tips & tricksTags: collaboration, creativity, Dropbox Paper

Celebrating #Dropbox10: Workplace trends that are here to stay

Ben Taylor May 11, 2017

While the working world is full of fads—whether that’s treadmill desks or sleep pods—some crazes have more staying power than others. Here are 10 popular workplace trends we’ve seen evolve since the early days of Dropbox—trends that we believe are here to stay.

Filed under: Just for funTags: collaboration, productivity

Celebrating #Dropbox10: 10 things we don’t miss about working in 2007

Ben Taylor May 10, 2017

While we sometimes miss the crazy scramble of Dropbox’s early days, there’s a lot more we’re happy to have left behind. Here are 10 things we remember about how the world worked in 2007 (that we don’t miss today).

Filed under: Just for funTags: collaboration

Spend less time searching, more time getting work done with Smart Sync

Jason Lyman May 9, 2017

Imagine how much more you could get done if you could trade file-tracking time for hours devoted to mission-critical work. If you and your team have tried to save disk space by storing files in USB disks or external hard drives—or avoided syncing a folder from the cloud because it’s too big—you’ve created unnecessary walls between your work. Here’s how Smart Sync can help your team get more out of Dropbox by letting you put more into it.

Filed under: Tips & tricksTags: collaboration, productivity, team

What we learned about creative collaboration from artists at SXSW

Liz Armistead March 20, 2017

Last week, we had the pleasure of talking with an inspiring group of musicians, designers, podcasters, and comedians at the 2017 South by Southwest Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas. Our goal was to find out how some of the most brilliant minds in the world collaborate on their creative work. Here’s what we learned.

Filed under: InspirationTags: collaboration, creativity, events, team

Krist Novoselic of Nirvana tells us what inspired an iconic sound

Liz Armistead March 15, 2017

How does it feel to collaborate with your heroes? How do musicians work together to make songs that create a new genre and define a generation? At this year’s South by Southwest Conference and Festivals, we sat down with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic at the Dropbox Studio to find out how groups with diverse points of view can work together to find common ground and create something that changes the world.