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The messenger challenge for defence organisations

Feb 5, 2026 By Steve Loynes In Element

Cloud-based communication platforms like WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Signal or Zoom are widely adopted and generally considered “secure enough” for everyday enterprise collaboration. For defence organisations, and other sensitive areas, that assumption does not hold. Modern SaaS platforms require organisations to entrust their communications to vendor-controlled cloud services, frequently operated under foreign jurisdictions.

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Slack School | Managing Your Notifications

Feb 5, 2026 By Slack In Slack

Learn how to fine-tune notifications and organize your sidebar so the right information finds you at the right time. A calmer, more productive workspace starts here. Class dismissed!

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Decoding the hidden trade-offs of E2EE and usability

Feb 4, 2026 By Andreas Sisask In Element

In an ideal world, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps would work identically to their non-E2EE counterparts (e.g. transport-layer security only), without introducing any additional inconvenience for users.

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5 micro-challenges to make your team stronger this week

Feb 3, 2026 By Tori Kaulins In Atlassian

Strengthening your team’s performance doesn’t have to mean a complete overhaul of your rituals and tools. A little consistency – in how you collaborate, connect knowledge across projects, and bring people together around shared goals – goes a long way. If your team is busy but still feels a little scattered, try this series of five micro-challenges over the course of a week. Each day has a distinct focus designed to help your team move faster, work smarter, and stay connected.

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Miro Basics: How to Create Your First Board

Feb 3, 2026 By Miro In Miro

New to Miro? This complete beginner tutorial shows you how to create your first board and start collaborating immediately, no blank canvas overwhelm. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN WHO THIS IS FOR TIMESTAMPS SUBSCRIBE for more Miro tutorials - from beginner basics to advanced workflows.

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Monitoring Distributed Teams: Using Data to Identify Communication Burnout

Feb 3, 2026 By Poojitha In Troop Messenger

In a physical office, burnout is visible. You see it in the slumped shoulders at the coffee machine or the colleague who suddenly stops joining Friday lunches. But in a distributed environment, burnout is often "silent." It hides behind green "active" status bubbles and standard "Checking on this!" replies. For leaders of globally dispersed teams, the challenge is shifting from visual cues to digital signals.

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Introducing Comms AI: your new favorite and most helpful teammate

Feb 3, 2026 By Carolyn Clark In Simpplr

Internal communicators don’t need more tools. We need fewer handoffs, less chaos, and more space to do the work that requires our superpowers of context, clarity, and judgment.

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Miro launches MCP server to connect visual collaboration with AI coding tools

Feb 2, 2026 By Miro In Miro

Built in collaboration with Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Windsurf, Miro's MCP server helps product and engineering teams align faster and build with greater context.

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Introducing Miro's MCP Server - Empower AI with Better Context to Build Faster

Feb 2, 2026 By Miro In Miro

Your AI coding agents, now more powerful, connected to visual collaboration. With Miro's MCP server, you can now understand exactly what your codebase looks like, and translate your inputs to generate new code, instantly. Onboard faster onto existing codebases with Miro's MCP server - connect to Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, OpenAI Codex, or any other tool and visualize your codebase directly as a diagram, document, or table, making it easier to understand and collaborate with your team to build on top of what already exists.

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Cemre Güngor: How to ship AI features users actually use | Product in Practice

Feb 2, 2026 By Atlassian In Atlassian

Cemre Güngor has helped shape how billions interact with technology, from Facebook and Instagram's global sharing experiences to Figma's AI-powered workflows, and now reimagining the browser at The Browser Company with Dia. In this conversation, we break down: Jira Product Discovery is the home for all your product ideas, customer feedback, and bets, so you can prioritize what actually matters and share living roadmaps with your stakeholders. Turn scattered requests and spreadsheets into a single, shared source of truth that connects directly to delivery in Jira.

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