Uglue: Want to Live a Better Life With Others?

The economy is going to be wobbly or worse for years to come. People are feeling the pinch. Yet there’s good news. Many have already found inventive ways to do better with others.
Their fresh collaborative methods enable them to thrive in how they work, support their favorite interest or live and play with their family, neighbors and friends.
Probably you can adapt at least one of their ideas to your situation.
That’s why we are launching the DovetailCollaboration website. It’s a free online community where individuals quickly find and share specific ways to get more done better or accomplish something greater – with the right kind of collaboration. See more about why and how to collaborate here and here.
Plus your great tips are rewarded when your idea is one of the Top Ten highest vote getters each month in the members-only contest.
Visibly share your expertise and experience at DovetailCollaboration

You can submit as many tips as you want.
Describe your collaboration-related method, what-if dream scenario, lessons learned for how to do it differently next time, from a failed attempt, research, recommended book or other resource – or summarize someone else’s – giving that person or persons credit by name, with links.
You don’t have to be an expert. You just have to be on the look-out for practical ideas that could help others in their working more smartly together.
Membership is free. It is fast and easy to sign up.
Only members can submit tips and vote, each month, on their Top Ten favorites.
Timely “Top Ten” lists attract attention

Winners not only get high visibility at DovetailCollaboration and elsewhere but the announcement has wide media distribution and will be sent to the five organizations or individuals each winner suggests.
Yes, being a valuable contributor has intrinsic rewards, as Dan Pink suggests. But the visibility may also be helpful for you (your work, cause or other affiliation) and for your friend or colleague you mention in your tip.
Win prizes for tips the community finds most helpful

And, as the membership grows, along with the number of tips and amount of activity on the site, several companies are interested in giving eCoupon-based prizes to the winners.
Because of that, over time the value of the prizes that winners receive will grow.
Thus the DovetailCollaboration itself is a collaborative model where all players gain extra value by participating.
Next to your top talent your most vital trait to strengthen is your capacity to collaborate

There are more reasons for you to keep up with the latest ways to collaborate — to get more done better with others. The world is getting increasingly complex and connected. Rather keep this concept in and get your alternative way to put it. Whether you are an executive, government manager, non-profit employee, activist, volunteer or small business owner, you need to stay top-of-mind in the “market” you serve.
Competition can appear faster and from more places. Suddenly you aren’t offering the best option.
How to survive and thrive? Having diverse relationships and knowledge of ways to partner (gleaned from DovetailCollaboration and elsewhere) means you can adeptly seize opportunities and solve problems – with others.
In a fast-changing world, that’s the best way to relevant and savor your life.
With others, turn the next chapter of your life into the kind of adventure story you most want it to be

Being able to collaborate not only means you can make the most out of situations, it often enables you to:
• Stay relevant and sought-after
• Use your best talents more often
• Co-create experiences that you wouldn’t have been able to have while alone
• Be a part of “first-evers” that matter to the people who matter to you
• Give yourself more options and opportunities in any part of your life
• Forge friendships as you flourish together.
In the next blog post, we’ll describe some of our favorite collaboration success stories and tis submitted by members at the DovetailCollaboration community. Some involve inventive new ways to co-create, swap, get more value out of what you have, share better, or offer a fresh reason for people to buy from you – because of you and your allies collectively offer.
Also, we will feature one of your tips in the next blog post so why not join right now if you haven’t yet. Share what you have seen or done – with others – to accomplish something you could not have done on your own.