It’s been a while now and Dispatch continues to improve, enhance and tweak all the things necessary to being a more complete cloud collaboration tool.

Notifications

How many notifications do you receive on average per day on your mobile device or through email? Likely it is an astounding amount. We get notifications for everything and while most are necessary, control over them is limited.

Dispatch’s latest round of tweaks are aimed at notifications. The additional control means less unwanted and more relevant notifications. Here’s a look at the latest changes:

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• Users now receive a periodic email summarizing new posts in a dispatch.
• Users will only receive comments by email when someone @mentions them or for posts made by and commented on by the user. Users can also reply to those email messages to make a new comment.
• Users can toggle whether they receive emails about certain posts by following/unfollowing them on the Dispatch site.
• Notifications for all activity is available when users visit the Dispatch website.
• Adding users to a conversation is simplified with the use of the @ symbol. Just place the @ in front of a username to include the user.

Along with the enhanced notification system, Dispatch rolled out some other improvements last month.

Dispatch Button

In the same fashion as a bookmarklet, the Dispatch browser button allows users to create new dispatchs about content they find on the web.

Dispatch Exit

Leaving a Dispatch is now as simple as clicking a button. Each dispatch has the “Leave this dispatch” option from inside the dispatch itself making for an easy exit.

UI Tweak

A new focused layout is now in place to make more content visible on screen. Gone is the gallery and in its place is a list to make finding older items easier.

Have you used Dispatch? What do you think of the changes and maturation of the service? Let us know in the comments!

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How do you collaborate with others? If you’re not collaborating in the cloud, then you’re missing out on an incredible opportunity to be more productive and develop ideas more effectively. Just launched cloud collaboration tool Dispatch is making the entire process easier with integrated cloud resources and a dead simple interface.

Dispatch Review

Dispatch is still in beta, but is already more convenient than other collaboration tools we’ve used. The cloud makes things possible on a scale that wasn’t imagined years ago. Now there are numerous services, including our own, which enhance everyday tasks through the cloud. Dispatch grabs onto those cloud services and harnesses their power to provide a single interface for collaboration.

Cloud services such as Dropbox, Evernote and Google Docs can be connected to Dispatch accounts in order to share files, notes and documents with a collaboration team or group of individuals. Thus pooling all the information into a single location for convenient access to all members.

Dispatch members or collaborators are added by the dispatch creator and all that’s needed is an email address to add members. Dispatches are another way of saying projects or tasks. Once a dispatch has been created, collaborators can add a title, notes, links and other items from connected cloud accounts.

Interface

Dispatch uses soft blue tones to provide a visually appealing look. The design is clean with a toolbar across the top for dispatch creation and account information.

Existing dispatches have their own set of options and again, the placement and color make the choices easy to identify and become accustomed to.

Dispatch Beta

As Dispatch acknowledges, they are still in beta and should be treated as such. Some items are likely to be sketchy in terms of operation while new features are likely to pop up unexpectedly as they’re released.

Dispatch’s simplicity makes it very attractive and is something we’d like to see Dispatch developers maintain as they move forward. The one thing that would elevate Dispatch above others is further integration and connectivity with more cloud services. As an example, Dropbox is a leader in cloud storage and having them connected is convenient, but cloud storage has exploded with a great many players now in the market. Those players offer varied storage size and security which may be a more appropriate option for businesses thus integration with them makes sense.

Summary

We can’t say enough about the ease of use from Dispatch and the lack of interface clutter is a welcome change from other cloud options. Don’t let the beta tag discourage sign-up, Dispatch is ready to go and although there will be some bumps in the road as they perfect the service, there’s no reason not to try them out now.

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