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What's New in Asana | August 2022

Welcome to the August edition of What’s New in Asana! First, start your work week off strong by setting a weekly focus on Asana’s mobile app. Your focus stays visible on My Tasks and helps you prioritize your most important work. Next, our improved Google Drive integration helps you keep conversations about work all in one place. Now you can get notifications on tasks in Asana when someone comments on an attached Google file. This ensures open comments are actioned and work doesn’t slip through the cracks.

How to Develop an Employee Experience Strategy

Do you have a favorite place to shop? Take a moment to imagine it. What does it look like? How does it feel? Whether it’s a farmer’s market, a home improvement center, or the storefront of a luxury brand, we don’t just shop there for what we buy. We love the carefully-curated experience, designed to be memorable. It’s the little touches that make a customer experience unique and keep shoppers loyal. That’s what customer experience strategy is all about.

13 Best Zoom Alternatives for Virtual Meetings and Webinars in 2022

Users search for virtual meetings and webinars’ tools in the name of Zoom alternatives expecting the same capabilities in the tools they are seeking - that is, the impact of Zoom on worldwide users. In other words, "Zoom" as a brand name has become synonymous with online meetings. If internet stories are to be believed, there was a significant surge in the use of Zoom for remote work, distance education, and online social contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

9 extremely secure collaboration tools for your business in 2022

The pandemic saw a massive shift in the way teams work together. With remote work becoming the new normal, secure collaboration tools became crucial in helping teams collaborate seamlessly despite being spread across different cities or even different continents. But why does the word "secure" hold the utmost importance here? While remote work offers the flexibility of working from anywhere and using any device, it can pose a great threat to an organization's data.

The CIO's vantage point for shaping company culture

Editor’s note: Tech decisions can set the tone for how employees experience belonging, especially in distributed workforces. Successful leaders often cultivate company culture through digital workplace experiences. CIOs enjoy an outsized role influencing company culture, even before employees or customers are onboarded. “I hold the keys to the experience that every employee has,” said Colleen Berube, CIO and SVP Operations at Zendesk.

Why Are We Okay with Notification Interruptions from Slack?

The daily bombardment of alerts dinging, beeping, and ringing from all those applications we use is enough to drive someone completely crazy. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, we allow ourselves to be interrupted by Slack in a way we wouldn’t from any other platform. Even though it seems completely counterintuitive, and despite the sheer amount of daily notifications (because we still can get a bunch of notifications from Slack alone), we love and use Slack—a lot.

What we launched in July 2022

This month at Miro we released many of the features that were talked about at Miro Next and a few more besides. Read on to see how Miro’s newest features can help your team work better together, check out our roundup of releases from July. This month at Miro we released many of the features that were talked about at Miro Next and a few more besides. Read on to see how Miro’s newest features can help your team work better together, check out our roundup of releases from July.