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10 critical factors to consider when choosing a chat server in 2025

‍ Choosing the wrong chat server can lead to severe issues like data breaches, loss of sensitive information, and operational disruptions. For example, the recent breach of AI aggregator OmniGPT exposed over 34 million lines of user conversations and 30,000 user emails and phone numbers. Similarly, DeepSeek's exposed database allowed unauthorized access to sensitive chat history and backend details.

A More Secure Way to Authenticate AWS SES in Courier - IAM Role Support

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is widely used for sending emails at scale, but traditional authentication with IAM User credentials can be risky and cumbersome. Now, Courier supports IAM Role authentication for Amazon SES, offering a new, more secure way to authenticate without long-lived access keys. This method reduces the risk of credential leakage and simplifies credential management by using temporary, automatically rotated credentials.

25 professional goals to advance your career

Professional development goals are objectives that help you advance in your career. In addition to giving your work a direction and purpose, setting goals helps you decide where you want to go and the steps you need to get there. In this article, we describe how to create professional goals you really care about and offer real-life goal examples from Asana employees. When you plan a road trip, what do you think of first? Aside from fast food and gas mileage, road trips usually start with the destination.

Tips to create group norms for high-performance teams, with examples from 7 Asana managers

What do you think would happen if you walked into a meeting wearing a clown costume? Or if you changed all of your computer notification sounds to cats meowing? Even if these things aren’t explicitly against company policy, your teammates might still do a double take. That’s because of group norms—implicit ground rules that your team follows, even if you’ve never written them down.

Executive dashboards: 10 reporting tips and benefits

An executive dashboard is a customized computer interface that displays your company data in an organized and graphical way. In this guide, we’ll explain what an executive dashboard is and why this reporting tool is beneficial. We’ll also provide tips on how to get maximum value when building your own executive dashboard. Organizations worldwide have used data for decades to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.

29 time management templates and examples to enhance efficiency

From daily to-dos to monthly editorial calendars, we’ve rounded up 29 time management templates and examples to get you started managing your time efficiently. Find out how each template can help you complete your to-do list. It’s hard to balance a busy work schedule and get your to-dos done when new tasks are constantly being added to your plate.

Zoom vs Skype: Which Video Chat App is Better for Your Team?

Remote work has become the norm. However, the need for meetings and discussions of working issues has not disappeared. Therefore, an important question arose: which program is better? The leaders are Skype and Zoom. We compared them by key settings and found a lot of useful things. By the way, the videoconferencing market is growing. According to studies, its volume will exceed $20 billion by 2024.

Google Chat vs Slack: Can Google's Team Chat Compete Against the Market Leader?

While Google Chat might not be the newest feature in the Google Suite, it’s still a top choice for team chat apps. Its seamless integration with Google’s ecosystem makes it really easy to use, which is why it’s a great choice for anyone who uses Google services. Google Chat is still seen as an effective chat application in the market. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have noticed that we love comparing team chat apps in our team chat wars.