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April 2024
Building Better Workplaces with Human Centricity with Hamza Khan, Future of Work & Leadership Expert
This episode features an interview with Hamza Khan, Future of Work and Leadership Expert. He is the best-selling author of Leadership Reinvented and The Burnout Gamble and is a two-time TEDx Speaker. In this episode, Shawn sits down with Hamza to discuss why work is not working, how to make employees owners, and the no day work week.
Relationship building at work: 7 ways to forge deeper employee connections with the right technology
Its people are an organization’s greatest asset. The right technology can be a force multiplier for building the relationships at work that underpin a positive employee experience and drive outcomes like increased talent retention and productivity.
How can you elevate the citizen experience with technology?
Citizen experience refers to the collective interactions and perceptions of the citizen with the government institutions and the services they render. Whether it is about applying for permits and licenses online or a healthcare emergency, people expect accessible, transparent, and secure platforms. A positive citizen experience increases citizen’s trust in the government. However, research shows that their expectations are unmet.
What's New: What we launched in April 2024
In the ever-evolving world of product planning, staying ahead of the curve is essential. This month, we want to share with you a series of updates designed to streamline your process and enhance collaboration. We’ve fine-tuned the Planner app, turbocharged Azure DevOps collaboration, and built some more features to boost your diagramming experience. These and other enhancements are poised to elevate your productivity to new heights.
How I do it in Miro: Run retrospectives with software engineer Rob Hopps
Even if you’re not an engineer, if you work in tech, chances are you’re familiar with retrospectives. Some might argue that retros are a waste of time, emphasize the negatives, or can suffer from a recency bias. Despite these challenges, retros are an important part of development work. They help teams learn from past mistakes, celebrate the successes, and — when practiced long-term — can capture trends and patterns that foster more comprehensive insights.
How I do Retrospectives in Miro
Join Rob Hopps, Software Engineer at Miro, as he guides you through his team's retrospective process using Miro. Discover Rob's expert tips for streamlining retrospective meetings with handy action shortcuts, and learn how to inject creativity into your retrospectives to make them more enjoyable and engaging for your team.
How to accomplish big things with long-term goals
Long-term goals are objectives you want to achieve months or years down the road. Setting this type of goal gives your work purpose, helps you make better decisions, and offers a hefty dose of daily motivation. In this article, we explain how you can use long-term goals to accomplish big things over time, with examples. When you think of an ideal future for your work, what do you see?
Visual project management: Tools, templates, and strategies
Visual project management allows you to see your project tasks and workload displayed in a visual format. When you can see your work, it’s easier to streamline efforts across your team, stay on track, and avoid potential bottlenecks. Often, this is done as a project timeline, calendar, or Kanban board. Learn more about the most common visual project management tools and how to use each (with examples).
Work Innovators Live: The science of tech overload
How are executives tackling the challenges of technology-induced friction in the workplace? Our esteemed panelists shared pivotal research from, "The State of Collaboration Technology" and "The State of the IT Leader" reports to discuss actionable strategies for overcoming tech overload. Gain insights that will transform how technology is leveraged within your organization, fostering a more efficient and less stressful work environment.
Guide to waterfall methodology: Free template and examples
Waterfall project management is a sequential project management methodology that's divided into distinct phases. Each phase begins only after the previous phase is completed. This article explains the stages of the waterfall methodology and how it can help your team achieve their goals. Project managers have many different types of project management methodologies to choose from. There's Agile project management, Kanban project management, Scrum, and many more iterative processes that you can use.
Invest in winning ideas with assumption mapping
A healthcare tech team has an exciting new idea. They see an opportunity to integrate new app features that support patient care beyond telemedicine appointments, like how-to videos for home exercise programs prescribed by physical therapists and detailed dietary guidelines from nutritionists. So they send out user surveys and develop a beta version for early adopters, who enjoy the new additions. But when they roll out the final version, it’s a flop. What happened?
Optimize your mindset with coach Ben Crowe | Experts Unleashed | Atlassian
He's worked with No.1 tennis champion Ash Barty, Olympic Gold medalists, champion surfers, record-breaking race car drivers, and organizations like Nike.. Ben uses a combination of research, psychology, anthropology, curiosity, and his own lived experience as a dad, husband, and son, to help people fulfill their potential.
Next in EX: Enabling employee empowerment and voice (ebook excerpt)
This is the fourth part of a series about the future of employee experience (EX). For the full picture, get your free copy of Next in EX: Trends shaping employee experience. Employees expect to be heard. To empower and engage them, organizations are turning to unified employee experience (EX) platforms that enable them to seamlessly solicit feedback, measure sentiment and elevate internal voices.
4 reasons you need a Slack alternative
As a popular business messaging solution, Slack is well-suited for general collaboration, particularly among smaller teams. Though the platform does offer several advantages — it’s user-friendly, it supports team collaboration, and organizations don’t have to manage the software or infrastructure themselves — there are certain areas where this SaaS solution falls short. Chief among them? Built for general business collaboration, Slack struggles to support mission-critical work.
Localizing Your Digital Footprint: The Intersection Between Messaging Apps and Market Penetration
Did you know that 97% of people learn more about a local company online than they do by simply strolling around the neighborhood? So, if you want to connect with your customers, you need to find a way to cut through the digital noise and catch their attention. The good news is that you have one powerful advantage - your geographical location. You are physically closer to your possible customers, and you can use localization to bring them over the threshold.
How Businesses Can Leverage AI to Automate Their Workflows
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent, offering a multitude of opportunities for workflow automation. Let's delve into ten specific ways in which businesses can harness AI to streamline their operations effectively.
Top 7 Strategies For Effective Communication In Retail Industry
Effective communication is essential for smooth operations, team cohesion, and customer satisfaction. The retail industry may face communication challenges due to its dynamic nature and diverse workforce. These challenges can include: However, implementing some or all of the strategies highlighted in this article will benefit communications between your employees and customers, your employees and their colleagues, and your employees and those in the head office.
What is government software? 5 ways to choose the best one
In recent years, government software has increasingly enhanced efficiency, transparency, and citizen participation for governmental organizations. However, this indispensable tool also comes with vital concerns like security, compliance, interoperability, and scalability. Government data is critical, which necessitates robust security and compliance measures.
BOOST Your Workflow with Miro's STICKY NOTES: Efficient Tips & Tricks
Transform your productivity and organization skills with the power of Miro's sticky notes! This video is a treasure trove of tips and tricks to help you make the most out of this versatile tool. Perfect for team collaboration, project planning, or personal organization, our guide will show you how to streamline your workflow like never before.
The Impact of Unified Communications in Modern Project Management
Unified Communications (UC) is revolutionizing how projects are managed in our ever-globalizing world. Can you imagine how hard it can be to coordinate a project team spread across various time zones? Traditional communication methods could bog things down, and create snarls that no project manager ever wants to deal with. This is where UC comes in — transforming what could be a chaotic mess into a finely-tuned interactions that are effective.
Simpplr spotlight: Latest product features and updates
From Smart Answers powered by GenAI to streamlined survey sharing, engaging intranet video and audio, and beefed-up recognition analytics, here’s what you need to know about Simpplr’s latest release.
Smooth product launches are simpler than you think
When launching a new product, organizations are faced with many challenges. For example, issues like fragmented communication, lack of visibility, and unclear goals are common. Learn strategic solutions to streamline processes and enhance team collaboration for successful product launches. On paper, product launches seem deceptively simple—you brainstorm a great product, set a game plan and, with a few adjustments, set a successful launch in motion.
Level up your sales game with Slack
Learn how Slack Sales Elevate helps leaders to make better decisions and drive more wins.
Ensuring Employee Engagement in Compliance Training: Strategies and Techniques
Employee engagement plays a pivotal role in the success of any compliance training initiative. When employees are actively involved in their training, they are more likely to remember and implement what they've learned in their tasks. This, in turn, fosters a work environment that's both compliant and ethical. This blog will discuss strategies that organizations can use to promote employee engagement in compliance training.
Looking to the future of employee experience: Insights from Jordan Katz, Chief Insights Officer at Simpplr (podcast recap)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the workplace by storm, automating mundane tasks, parsing through big data in seconds, and streamlining countless processes — opening up an endless world of productive possibilities. So with AI in the mix, what does the future hold for the employee experience?
3 Ways to use Slack Canvas #SlackTips
There’s no better time to broaden your horizons. In fact, you might even ride off into the sunset with all the time you save by using canvas this year.
Partnership with BigBlueButton for Matrix-based virtual classroom
We are excited to announce a ground-breaking collaboration between Element and BigBlueButton, marking a significant step forward in the realm of virtual classroom technology in the education sector. This partnership signifies our joint commitment to revolutionising online communication and collaboration, and we are ecstatic about the possibilities that lie ahead.
What is a government messaging app? 6 must-have key features
When we're talking about government messaging apps, what are we talking about? Messaging has become a popular mode of communication because of the desire for ease, real-time conversations, and access from anywhere, at any time. In fact, Gartner's 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies show that instant messaging platforms have surpassed email as the primary mode of internal workplace communication.
Tips & Tricks for Slack canvas editing
Learn how to jazz up your Slack canvases with.
Slack Canvas Introduction & Use Cases
Learn more about the two types of Slack Canvases, and how canvas can be used for onboarding, project management, development teams, and newsletters.
What is Cronyism in the Workplace and How to Prevent It
We’ve all heard of nepotism, aka the act of favoring family members in the workplace. But what about cronyism? It’s the ‘insidious’ cousin that thrives within the organization itself. Cryonism is not about blood ties, but about the web of personal connections that trumps qualifications and merits. In this article, we will peel back the layers of cronyism, from its damaging effects to ways to prevent it, and some cronyism examples for better understanding.
Secure communications landscape is now 'Established,' says Forrester
The new Secure Communications Solutions Landscape Q2 2024 (subscription required) report, from Forrester Research, categorises the secure communications marketplace as having progressed from ‘Emerging’ to now be identified as ‘Established.’ There are many milestones on any journey, but we feel this is a significant one.
Next in EX: Prioritizing employee experience - no matter how or where employees work (ebook excerpt)
This is the third part of a series about the future of employee experience (EX). For the full picture, get your free copy of Next in EX: Trends shaping employee experience. The line between employees’ professional and personal lives continues to blur as the diversity of work models evolves into the new reality.
3 ways to invest in a stellar EX for IC teams (and why you should)
The most forward-looking Internal Communication leaders know that creating an exceptional employee experience (EX) for their IC teams leads to the best possible outcomes — both for the organization and the employees themselves.
Embedding Miro into Your Favorite Tools: A Comprehensive Guide
Expand the functionality of your favorite tools by embedding Miro! This detailed tutorial shows you how to seamlessly integrate Miro boards into various platforms and tools, enhancing your workflow and collaboration. Whether you’re using project management software, design tools, or educational platforms, you’ll learn how to bring the power of Miro's visual collaboration into your daily toolset.
Fix these common onboarding challenges to boost productivity
The data doesn’t lie—a good onboarding process leads to happier, more productive employees. But while onboarding can increase retention rates by 82%, only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new hires. Creating a smooth onboarding process is challenging, so it’s not surprising that some organizations fall short. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
UNICC selects Element for secure communications
United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) has selected Element as its secure communications platform, following a competitive tender process. UNICC is the largest strategic partner for digital solutions and cybersecurity within the United Nations system. It designs and deploys transformational digital tools and programmes to support over 90 partners in fulfilling their mandates.
Salesforce Brings Slack AI to All Paid Customers, Adds Recap to Deliver Daily Morning Digests
Slack strengthens its AI-powered platform as it continues rolling out native generative AI capabilities to users, including enhanced search, channel and thread summaries, and a new recap feature. Customers like Wayfair, Beyond Better Foods, and more depend on Slack AI to stay ahead of the workday and better surface and prioritise information.
Understanding dependencies in project management
A project dependency is a task that relies on the completion of a different task. This article breaks down key terms associated with dependencies and the different kinds of dependencies you may see in project management. Much like a relay race, projects are often completed by passing tasks from one team member to the next. Unlike a relay race, some project tasks require other tasks to move forward before they can be started. This relationship between tasks is known as a dependency.
How to summarize conversations with Slack AI
Learn how to use Slack AI to summarize a conversation or an entire channel.
How to find answers faster with Slack AI
Learn how to use Slack AI to find answers across your workspace.
How to use Slack AI to recap what you've missed
Learn how to use Slack AI to recap important activity and updates across your company.
Agile beyond software development: How to empower non-tech teams
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “Agile?” It’d be no surprise if your mind goes straight to software engineering, given Agile’s origins as a self organized way of working for developers in the early 2000s. But in recent years, its methodologies have become ubiquitous as a highly efficient way for all teams to work, with its frameworks used everywhere from marketing to HR, in military operations, and beyond.
How Prudential Accelerates Agile Processes and Builds Trust with Miro
Discover how Prudential utilizes Miro to foster innovation and collaboration. With remote and hybrid work environments, Miro has become essential for seamless teamwork and design processes. Agile teams at Prudential leverage Miro for PI planning, retrospectives, and other agile events, promoting transparency and collaboration. By replacing traditional in-person retrospectives with Miro's dynamic interface, Prudential enhances visibility and trust within teams. The recent integration of Jira and Miro streamlines workflows, reducing overhead time and increasing employee satisfaction.
How Asana uses work management to optimize resource planning
Initiatives can’t succeed without the right resources. Nobody knows this better than Rita Khayat, Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations. Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track—which she does by allocating the right resources, at the right time, to the most important work. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Resource management is essential for each of these areas.
How Asana uses work management for organizational planning
Rita Khayat is an expert at managing complex, company-wide programs. As Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations, Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track. She does this with clear processes, 20+ years of experience, and a knack for using Asana to its full potential. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Together, these responsibilities span many different teams and require a high level of cross-functional coordination.
Businesses of all sizes are working faster and smarter with Slack AI
Slack AI is available for purchase on all paid subscriptions, helping customers to ignite employee productivity by unlocking the full potential of their data.
How to create a cross-functional team in 4 simple steps
A cross-functional team is a permanent or temporary group of people with different types of experience working together to achieve a common goal. Cross-functional teams benefit companies because when team members with multiple skill sets work together, they can pursue company goals more efficiently. In this piece, we’ll explain what a cross-functional team is and provide tips for how to build one.
How I do it in Miro: Jumpstart journey mapping with product designer Maureen H.
Previously we launched a new “How I do it in Miro” video series hosted both by regular users and our very own Mironeers. These videos are designed to help you learn — fast — how you can use Miro for your specific job. The first video featured Miro UX researcher Deniz Kartepe, who demonstrated how he uses Miro to run a research project end to end. You can read about it here.
Tips for searching with Slack AI
Use these tips to get the best results possible when searching with Slack AI.
Marketing Your Game and Making Money: Choosing the Right Methods - and Keeping Your Team Working Smoothly Together
Launching a game into a jam-packed market and planning to make a profit requires more than just an original idea and slick gameplay to back it up. So much of success in this sphere boils down to picking the right marketing strategies that resonate with your target audience, as well as monetizing your pride and joy in an appropriate way. There’s also the fact that your team are the gears behind the scenes, and they need to mesh perfectly to drive your project forward properly at all points.
Improved Usability: Wire's Desktop & Web Updates
One thing that we can all agree on is that we should always work on improving ourselves. It’s in this spirit that we proudly bring to you an improved calling User Interface (UI) and a more convenient conversation view for Wire's desktop app (Windows, MacOS) and our app for your web browser. We made it easier to choose audio and visual outputs, view reactions, and conversation views. Less steps, less clicks; better communication! Let’s get into it.
Slack Keyboard Shortcuts: Part 2 #SlackTips
Tips to navigate Slack with just your keyboard.
Achieve continuous improvement with as-is and to-be process mapping
In 1952, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald closed their BBQ restaurant for three months to focus on one small aspect of their business: hamburgers. Like many other restaurants at that time, their processes were slow and inefficient. They cooked menu items to order, used non-disposable dishes, and delivered meals via carhops. To cut costs and serve hamburgers faster, the brothers took their crew out to a tennis court.
Program manager vs. project manager: Key differences
You may know what project management is, but have you ever heard the term program management? While the two sound similar, you might be surprised to learn there’s a lot that sets them apart. Whether you’re searching for the right role for your team or want to improve your work management processes and methodologies, we’ll help you understand the differences between a program manager vs. project manager.
Fact vs. fiction - Understanding the role of generative AI in employee-facing applications (webinar recap)
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), it can be tough to distinguish between myth and reality. The challenge intensifies for organizations exploring the use of generative AI in employee-facing applications.
5 Examples Of Passive Communication and How To Deal With It
Professional communication can be tricky at times. When you send an email or a message, the person on the other end might not understand what you mean. Even if you spend time crafting your message, it can still be misinterpreted. This is important, whether you’re working remotely or in person. In emails or chats, you have to be extra careful with your words and punctuation to avoid confusion. As we continue to work remotely, dealing with difficult team members might become a challenge again.
How I Do Customer Journey Mapping in Miro
Product designer Maureen is here to show you her journey map creation process in Miro. See how Maureen deep dives into understanding users' experiences, working hand in hand with them to sketch out their journey. All within the platform. She'll share the details of how she and her team brainstorm ideas to tackle insights they uncover — and craft a practical plan to move forward.
What's new in Asana | April 2024
Welcome to the April edition of What’s new in Asana. First, create status updates faster with smart status. Asana Intelligence will start a draft status for you, pulling real-time work data in portfolios and goals and highlighting any risks, questions, and roadblocks. Next, save time by quickly duplicating entire sections of tasks within the same project. Finally, use today’s date in a custom field formula calculation to track the duration of progress or time spent on a task.
Monthly bill: Slack vs. Campfire
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MS Teams unbundled from Office [+3 reasons why it matters]
In April 2024, Microsoft unbundled MS Teams from the rest of the Office package globally. This news comes almost six months after Microsoft unbundled Teams in Europe. Microsoft says that the global unbundling made sense to make pricing easier for global organizations operating in Europe.
8 Ways Technology Enhances Supply Chain Visibility
It's no secret that visibility in supply chain operations dictates the difference between successes and setbacks. With technology evolving at breakneck speeds, savvy 3PL service providers are racing to integrate cutting-edge tools that ensure nothing slips through the cracks. To showcase what’s at play, stick with us and we’ll introduce you to a group of contemporary tech solutions that are shaking up the supply chain scene from top to bottom.
Next in EX: Unifying employee experience technology (ebook excerpt)
This is the second part of a series about the future of employee experience (EX). For the full picture, get your free copy of Next in EX: Trends shaping employee experience. Too many employees have too many tools, creating a sense of digital friction that fractures their attention, causes frustration, and limits productivity. This technology overload holds employees back instead of propelling them forward — this poor employee experience (EX) impacts key organizational outcomes.
The Future of Employee Experience with Jordan Katz, Chief Insights Officer at Simpplr
This episode features an interview with Jordan Katz, Chief Insights Officer at Simpplr. In this episode, Shawn and Jordan dive into Simpplr’s Future of Employee Experience Report. They discuss the importance of personalized and efficient communication platforms, analyzing diverse data sources to create a seamless employee experience, and taking a human-centered approach to AI.
Zoom workplace AI revolutionizes team collaboration
With the launch of its AI-powered platform, Zoom Workplace, Zoom Video Communications has made a significant advancement in the rapidly changing field of digital workspaces. Together with updates to the AI Companion, this platform seeks to transform teamwork through increased output, smoother connections, and more flexible work arrangements. Here’s a closer look at how Zoom is changing the way people collaborate in contemporary offices.
Knowledge Work Automation Will Change Compliance
All companies rely on effective compliance to protect data and streamline business operations. The advantages of automating knowledge work are infinite. Companies can implement a comprehensive database to store institutional knowledge. This approach helps organizations minimize the risk of cyberattacks, avoid document mismanagement, and enhance workflows in every department. Organizations can then focus on superior customer service.
The Importance of Document Automation
When you envision “automation,” what comes to mind? For many people, it's images of large automotive assembly lines. Deploying robotic arms and other modern marvels, these manufacturing facilities are monuments to the power of automation. However, the real automation revolution today happens outside the manufacturing floor. In offices around the world, automation software is transforming knowledge work—particularly solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI).
How a VPN Protects Sensitive Business Information
Data is the lifeblood of success in today's dynamic business landscape. Financial records, customer information, intellectual property - these digital assets are crucial for competition and they demand robust protection. While the digital age has introduced conveniences in the form of blurred geographical boundaries so businesses can operate globally, new security challenges have cropped up that must be tackled.
State of Internal Communications research findings: An interview with Simpplr Chief Insights Officer Jordan Katz (podcast)
Technology is rapidly evolving — and so are many Internal Communication teams, which are leveraging innovations from generative AI to virtual assistance to increase productivity and magnify the impact of their work.
Steering Committee: Role, Responsibilities, and Best Practices
Every business understands the importance of staying on track in any endeavor — may it be creating a new IT system or launching a new product. To ensure that such projects deliver the intended results, having a steering committee is a good solution. Usually comprised of key stakeholders and experts, this committee acts as a guiding hand in project management and risk mitigation.
How to build resilient teams with Agile expert Diana Larsen
Diana Larsen is an international authority in Agile software development, leadership, and transformations. She’s also the co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams, and The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning. Her most recent book, Lead Without Blame, is particularly relevant now, as it addresses the crucial need for enterprises to build resilient teams in today’s increasingly competitive and challenging landscape.
How AI-powered tools can improve enterprise security
Developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have had a huge impact on content creation, innovation, and collaboration. Everything from creating text, images, and videos, to sorting unstructured information, and generating or analyzing software code are easy to accomplish with the help of GenAI. But what can GenAI do when it comes to security?
Microsoft Teams launches Copilot to boost workplace efficiency
Microsoft Teams is leading the way in innovation in the rapidly changing digital workplace space, particularly with the recent release of Copilot features that improve efficiency and simplify collaboration. Tools that promote efficient communication and remote work are more important than ever as it become more mainstream. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s latest announcement promises, bringing AI-powered improvements meant to turn Teams into a vital tool for employees everywhere.
CPA Courtney Kunzig Discusses Automation in Accounting
Knowledge work automation is poised to reshape multiple industries. This is especially true in professional services. In this sector, knowledge is often the primary deliverable. Accounting industry workers handle huge amounts of client data. They also manage sensitive information and face tight deadlines. Workflows, security and compliance, client satisfaction, and firm growth are major priorities for these professionals.
30-60-90 day plan for new hires (template and examples)
A 30-60-90 day plan outlines the first 90 days of a new team member’s employment and familiarizes them with company policies, teamwork, and goals. This action plan helps your team members check off essential items as they adjust to their new work environment. In this piece, we’ll outline the key components of a 30-60-90 day plan and explain why having one is beneficial.
Digital Sovereignty: Wire and Schwarz Group announce partnership
Wire and the Schwarz Group today proclaim a strategic partnership to advance secure communication and data sovereignty in Germany and Europe. The partnership was announced at the Cybersecurity Conference by Schwarz in Heilbronn. The strategic partnership has three key points: Wire secures the digital communications of governments and companies in the areas of critical infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications worldwide.
Integrating Miro with Video Chat Apps: Enhance Your Teams Meetings
Revolutionize your online meetings with Miro's seamless integration into video chat applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Miro effectively during virtual meetings, making your collaborations more interactive and productive. Ideal for remote teams, educators, and anyone looking to add a dynamic visual element to their video conferences.
New in Basecamp: References
Now in Basecamp, linking to a message, to-do, card, event, document, or file automatically creates a Reference, instantly tying related things together. Simply copy the URL of the Basecamp item you're linking and paste it into your message, comment, chat, or ping. References appear in a separate tab alongside comments. Of course, you only see References from projects and conversations that you can access.
How to schedule messages in Slack #SlackTips
When scheduling messages, don’t forget to check the time zone of the person you’re sending to for extra consideration. 💻🕑
Why sustainability needs to be every business' top priority: An interview with Miro Principal Product Evangelist Bram Jonker
Whether it’s reported in the news or discussed in the boardroom, environmental concerns are top of mind these days — and sustainability is increasingly influencing how companies do business, what projects they’re prioritizing, and how they plan for the future. We spoke with Bram Jonker, Principal Product Evangelist at Miro, to learn how organizations are leveraging innovation to tackle this complex challenge.
Knowledge Work Automation: Reshaping the Future of Work
Knowledge work automation is emerging as a transformative force in the workplace, reshaping the way professionals engage with work tasks and boosting overall productivity. This revolutionary approach seeks to free knowledge workers from time-consuming, administrative activities, allowing them to focus on core tasks that drive improved productivity.
Adding AI and Knowledge Work Automation to Your Microsoft Arsenal
As the digital workplace grows, businesses rely increasingly on advanced technologies to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Microsoft's tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Office 365 are at the forefront of digital transformation.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Data and Analytics
In today's digital era, businesses are swimming in a sea of data. Understanding and harnessing the power of advanced analytics, data, collective intelligence, and artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial. Developing a strong data and analytics strategy is essential for organizations looking to use information effectively.
Product Roundup: What's new in Rocket.Chat 6.7
As we enter another quarter, our momentum continues to surge forward. In this product roundup, we'll delve into Rocket.Chat's latest features with a spotlight on the enhanced personalization of the live chat widget. We'll navigate through key usability upgrades and notable bug fixes, all tailored to provide a superior and customizable Rocket.Chat experience. Let's explore what's new and improved!
Skype for Business replacement: Top 12 tools
Businesses are investing in robust communication tools to foster quick exchanges among team members, vendors, customers, clients, and more. Skype for Business has remained one of the popular video conferencing tools for several years. However, Skype for Business was retired on January 9, 2024. This has motivated businesses to look for an effective Skype for Business replacement that offers similar capabilities or exceeds them.
Maximizing Efficiency with eSIM: Proven Strategies for Effective Business Management
The advent of eSIM (embedded SIM) technology is transforming connectivity and unlocking major efficiency benefits for businesses across industries. eSIM offers a programmable, remote SIM solution that brings substantial advantages over traditional physical SIM cards in terms of cost savings, scalability, security, and seamless global mobility.
How to create a work schedule template (with examples)
Use a work schedule to clarify which team members are working, when. A work schedule is a simple document—but you can take this document to the next level by adding project timelines and task assignments. In this article, we’ll dive into the different types of work schedules, how you can create one, and how an online tool gives you the flexibility to change your work schedule and collaborate with team members across projects.
Should we scale, and if so, how?: Dissecting the Scaled Agile debate
It’s been 23 years since the Agile Manifesto transformed software development. Frameworks like Scrum and Kanban and other Agile practices have allowed teams to move away from rigid, linear processes to more flexible ones that focus on delivering value to customers faster. Since then, the world of Agile has expanded in scope.
Unlock your innovation potential with these 8 AI-powered ideas from the Miro Community
From organizing ideation sessions to automating manual project management updates, the opportunities to supercharge product workflows with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools are virtually endless. At this point, it’s less of a question of if, but rather, how teams are harnessing the power of AI to unlock their organization’s full innovation potential.
The AI-Enabled Workforce | Atlassian President, Anu Bharadwaj
Whether you call them AI assistants, copilots, or teammates – there’s no shortage of AI features that promise to help individuals work smarter, better, and faster. But at a time when the workplace grows more distributed and the need for better collaboration and connection becomes more crucial, we should instead be thinking about how AI will actually help teams — not just individuals — work better together. After all, no great achievement is accomplished alone.
The State of Internal Communications with Jordan Katz, Chief Insights Officer at Simpplr
This episode features an interview with Jordan Katz, Chief Insights Officer at Simpplr. In this episode, Shawn and Jordan dig into Simpplr’s 2024 State of Internal Communications Report. They discuss the most surprising results, creating highly effective teams, and using AI to tailor messages.
Miro is Google Cloud's 2024 Technology Partner of the Year in Productivity and Collaboration: Innovation
We’re thrilled to announce that Miro has won the Google Cloud 2024 Technology Partner of the Year Award in Productivity and Collaboration: Innovation, in recognition of our commitment to an excellent customer experience. Today, Google announced all 2024 Google Cloud Partner Award winners, celebrating companies around the globe that play a key role in helping customers drive innovation with visionary technology. Miro included!
How to Asana: Automate work with rules
Work often includes necessary but repetitive steps. Handoffs to co-workers, approval processes, and triaging requests are all examples of essential, repetitive, and time-consuming work. In this video, learn how to use rules in Asana to automate common steps in your workflows.
Slack Keyboard Shortcuts: Part 1 #SlackTips
Tips to navigate Slack with just your keyboard.
Secure government messaging: 5 ways to enable it
Governments across the world are digitalizing their services to better connect and serve citizens. To cater to the evolving demands, they rely on text messages for internal and citizen communication. Security is of utmost importance as they often deal with sensitive information regarding public safety, military, and diplomacy. Let us understand how you can build a secure messaging platform for military messaging, digital public service delivery, citizen communication, self-service, etc.
Element signs partnership deal with Tele2 for secure collaboration
Tele2, the Swedish network operator, has entered into a partnership agreement with Element. The partnership will see Element being provided by Tele2 as part of a new service called Tele2 Collaborate (Tele2 Samarbete), a fully managed, secure and digitally sovereign communications service for the Swedish public sector. Element will complement Tele2’s existing portfolio of products and services to address secure messaging and collaboration, and to combat shadow IT issues from consumer messaging apps.
Next in EX: Investing in 'AI for good' (ebook excerpt)
This is the first part of a series about the future of employee experience (EX). For the full picture, get your free copy of Next in EX: Trends shaping employee experience. There’s a lot of hype, fear and skepticism surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on work. AI technology itself is not inherently good or bad; it’s about how organizations and individuals choose to use it. When used responsibly and ethically in organizations, AI has the power to transform EX.
From pain points to progress: accelerating your Well-Architected Framework Reviews
Creating an architecture that not only supports your business, but enhances it, is not a one-and-done task. It requires continuous reflection, learning, and improvement. For organizations that build on AWS, Well-Architected Framework Reviews play a critical role in their success. Designed to enable teams to assess and improve their architecture, the process can enhance performance, ensure stability and security, and maximize cost-efficiency.
Mastering Collaboration in Miro: A Guide to Team Success
Unlock the full potential of team collaboration with Miro! This video is your ultimate guide to harnessing the collaborative features of Miro, making teamwork more efficient, engaging, and productive. Whether you're working on a complex project, brainstorming sessions, or coordinating with remote teams, our tips and strategies will help you collaborate in Miro like never before.
Don't let your digital tools sabotage the employee experience
This article was originally published on Reworked. Great companies don’t just value the employee experience (EX) — they’re fanatical about it. In the past, this obsession translated into office spaces that resembled adult playgrounds, boasting features like climbing walls and bean bags, baristas serving up artisanal lattes and serene meditation spaces for decompression.
Protecting Your Online Store: Important eCommerce Security and Privacy Measures for 2024
Online stores have become the latest buzzword, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we see many online stores across the web, which has led to an alarming rate of cyber-attacks. According to a recent report, most of the grievances received in 2022 were personal data breaches, phishing, and non-payment/non-delivery. This statistic shows the importance of eCommerce security and privacy in modern-day businesses. Hence, it becomes crucial for modern-day entrepreneurs to protect their online stores.
New & noteworthy Miroverse templates: March 2024
For some, March is known for its madness — for the Miroverse community, March has been a month full of innovation and creativity. Featuring everything from productivity powerhouses to mood-boosting marvels, this roundup is your ticket to exploring the best templates of the month. Let’s show these creators some love for their brilliant contributions to Miroverse in March! 💛
What product teams need to build the future
The business world is full of contradictions. On one hand, everyone’s hungry for the next big thing. On the other, the thought of taking risks makes leaders sweat. Even though nearly all of them agree that companies have to innovate — 98%, to be exact — it’s not that simple.
How the Right Time Tracking App Fuels Small Business Expansion
In the fast-paced world we live in today, where time equates to money, effective time management plays a significant role in driving the success and expansion of businesses. However, keeping track of time can prove to be quite challenging without the use of proper tools and strategies. This is where a dependable time-tracking application becomes essential, offering businesses advantages in enhancing productivity, saving costs, and fostering growth.
How to prioritize tasks in 4 steps (and get work done)
Tired of your never-ending task list and watching your priorities get pushed to the side? Learn how to create a task list, choose a prioritization strategy, schedule your tasks, and communicate with your team to increase productivity and get things done. If you’re like most people, you usually start your workday with the intention of being as productive as possible. Yet, as the day rolls on, you find yourself fielding multiple urgent requests and watching your task list grow.
How to get innovation done: A roadmap for leaders
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the imperative for innovation has never been more clear. Leaders across industries understand that the key to relevance and sustainability lies in continuous adaptation and evolution. In fact, Miro’s global innovation survey reveals that nearly all enterprise leaders believe a company will become extinct if it fails to innovate — so the clock is ticking.
Jira Integration: Add a Help Desk to Project Management And Software Development
If your organization already uses Jira for software development or project tracking but lacks a service desk, then this is perfect for having the best of both worlds. The InvGate Service Desk and Jira integration allows you to add a help desk to your Project Management and software development tools in just a few clicks. As a result, you'll be able to link any Jira issue to a service desk request, allowing quick access to detailed and real-time information on the Jira issue directly from InvGate Service Desk – avoiding having to go back and forth between solutions.
How it feels to use Basecamp vs. not #shorts
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How to set keyword notifications in Slack #SlackTips
Another Slack hack … or Shlack, if you prefer. Set up keyword notifications to stay on top of important projects, or just be the first to know when there’s pizza for lunch. 🍕
How Slack simplified complex operations at Cebu Pacific Air
If you’ve travelled by air, you’ve probably looked out from the boarding lounge and been impressed by all the activity around the planes. There’s food, fuel and baggage going on, and passengers and cargo coming off. It’s impressive because it’s well-coordinated and works smoothly.
How to teach AI to write in your exec's voice (Intellicomms)
This article was originally published on Mister Editorial. Breaking news! Generative AI tools are imperfect! But that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved. By now we know that when you prompt a chatbot (like Copilot, ChatGPT) the output is dull. The simpler your prompt, the blander the response.
What is Group Communication and How to Handle It Effectively?
Effective group communication allows team members to seamlessly collaborate on complex projects with clarity and purpose. But with so many options on the market, choosing the right communication tools can be an overwhelming task. There are several factors to consider before making a decision, such as the size and location of the team, the nature of the project, and the communication needs of the team members.
Solve your tech overload with an intelligent transformation
This article was originally published on Inc. Over the past decade, the corporate world has obsessively chased digital transformations. But now, surrounded by a clutter of apps and incessant digital notifications, it's become painfully clear: we've been duped. Our workplaces have become dense jungles of digital clutter, leaving workers frazzled and exhausted. It's time to cut through the chaos.
15 creative org chart examples to map out your people and processes
A company is like a living organism. Employees come and go, teams reorganize, and workflows change. To visualize your organizational structure as it evolves, it’s useful to have a living document like an organizational chart. Beyond tracking your employee structure at a glance, an org chart helps to train new hires, document processes, and allocate resources. If you think org charts are all the same, think again.
AI is changing work for the better - here's how
Two AI experts weigh in on how the technology can help teams do more and collaborate better.
Efficiently Using Miro Templates: Enhance Your Workflow Now!
Step up your Miro game by mastering the use of templates! This video is a deep dive into the world of Miro templates, showing you how to select, customize, and effectively use them for various projects and workflows. Whether you’re managing a team, planning a project, or organizing information, our guide will help you leverage Miro’s templates for maximum efficiency.
How to set your out of office status in Slack #SlackTips
Notifications: off. 🔇 Out of Office status: on. 😌 When you have to step away from work (like for a vacation or personal leave), you can set an out of office status to let your coworkers know how to get work done or who to contact while you're gone.
Crafting the Perfect Remote Workspace: Communication Tools Meet Business Solutions
Buffer’s recent survey revealed that the majority (97%) of people said they’d love to keep working from home--at least part-time--for the rest of their careers. With the way things are always on fast-forward nowadays, setting up the perfect spot to work from home has become super important. A bunch of us are swapping the typical office for our living rooms or maybe even a cozy corner in a coffee shop.
Introducing org charts (beta) to help you plan and strategize your business
To stay competitive, enterprise organizations need to set clear goals, define strategies, and allocate the right resources to drive the actions needed to achieve objectives. This all requires organizational planning. If you’re a business leader, this also means optimizing your organization’s structure. Doing so will help you identify redundancies across teams, and skill sets.
Finding your fit: how to get started with hybrid agile
Agile methodologies — techniques and practices that prioritize collaboration and flexibility — have long been a reliable fixture on most product teams who want to deliver value while still having the flexibility to adapt to changes. But as technological advancements, regulatory shifts, distributed teamwork, and rising customer expectations make projects increasingly complex, even Agile methodologies can feel too rigid and one-size-fits-all.
Cybersecurity resilience in the Government and public sector in the US
Our world is more connected than ever. For many, this has accelerated knowledge exchange and advanced world economies and living conditions. However, it has also made our digital presence more complex. Data security and privacy are at stake, and in some industries, like Government and Defense, this presents significant challenges.
Diagram Like a Pro: Miro's Integration with Draw.io, PlantUML & Mermaid!
Dive into the world of sophisticated diagramming with Miro's seamless integration of open-source tools: draw.io, PlantUML, and Mermaid. This video is designed for professionals and teams who want to enhance their diagramming capabilities, offering comprehensive insights into creating network diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, and more within Miro's collaborative platform. From straightforward interfaces to intricate designs, we cover the essentials to harness the power of these integrations effortlessly.
March Appy Hours and Best App Demo | Atlassian
Appy Hours is an Atlassian Community monthly event where 4 Marketplace Partners go head-to-head for the title of Best App Demo.