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Slack promised to kill email, and Slack Connect might just do it

The Verge

Originally designed by accident as something that could potentially replace email , Slack hasn’t quite killed off email just yet. 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.

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Superpowered lets you see your schedule and join meetings from the Mac menu bar

TechCrunch

A newly launched Mac app called Superpowered aims to make it easier to stay on top of all your Zoom calls and Google Meets, without having to scramble to find the meeting link in your inbox or calendar app at the last minute. To use Superpowered, you first download the app then authorize it to access to your Google Calendar.

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Reform your startup’s meeting culture

TechCrunch

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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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

TechCrunch

Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. “We’re confident in our unique approach to self-organizing and generative knowledge management.

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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

sgEngage

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. That first automation inspired the next. “It

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

TechCrunch

Cleary combines a communications platform, wikis, tools for helping businesses recognize their employees (at least virtually), an employee directory with org charts, a search tool that brings together a company’s knowledge base from across various third-party tools and a Q&A service for live events. ” Cleary raises $4.5M

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