The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

But over the past four years, Slack has quietly been building a major platform change for its communications app that might help replace your work email in the future. Slack Connect is enabling businesses to use Slack in new ways that go beyond just traditional human-to-human communications. Email has been around for decades.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communications team to post announcements you’re not going to read. That number has dropped significantly since the start of the pandemic.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automation can turn minutes, hours, or days of busy work into a second or two, freeing up a fundraiser’s head space and calendar space for truly creative work. Pro tip: Keep track of how many hours per month you spend on manual communications, such as new donor welcome emails and receipts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams. Communicate Clearly in Emails.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. Image: Workiz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Qi, who co-launched Motion in 2019 alongside Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu, estimates that knowledge workers spend 58% of their day on average coordinating work instead of actually accomplishing it. Motion as it exists today plans which members of a team should do what based on their respective projects and calendars.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

Bad meetings are the fast food of the knowledge worker; it’s so deliciously quick and easy to throw a 60-minute default meeting on everyone’s schedule, but the long-term costs are extremely unhealthy. Every time a recurring meeting is added to a calendar, a kitten dies. No one measures the impact of their meetings.

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