If you are a sole proprietorship, as you may already be the involvement of small businesses or self-employment.

And so maybe you have wondered: “When is the best time to give?”

From a legal point of view, any time the best time. The sooner you do, the faster you move from the world of unlimited liability is limited to the world.

From the standpoint of the tax savings, is in every moment the best time. The sooner you incorporate, the sooner you will start to put more money into your pocket and less in Uncle Sam.

So what does this have to do with using technology to support online collaboration?  Too many tools try to do too much. As a result, users simply refuse to even try to learn how to use them.

This creates a big problem if you need everyone to use the technology for the workgroup to work.

The answer is to implement a solution that users can understand. The downside is that it won’t do absolutely everything, but the upside is that everyone will use it. After all, the whole idea is to get everyone on board.

As you consider possible solutions, begin by taking a hard-look at the user interface and sharing it with some actual users. See if they can figure it out. If they can’t, the most likely problem is that they are faced with too many options.

So limit the options only to those that are critical to the needs of the group.  The good news is that technology providers are beginning to recognize that there is a market for collaboration tools based on the concept that less is more – that by offering a simple solution, it will actually be used, fulfilling the promise of allowing individuals with varying levels of technical expertise to all work together.

Which, of course, is the whole point.