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

The Verge

Creating a calendar entry across organizations in Slack Connect. There’s even some machine learning going on that will allow Slack to scan calendars across multiple organizations and help workers create meetings at appropriate times when everyone is free. It’s an ambition that goes beyond just email or messaging.

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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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Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that

TechCrunch

The product can be integrated with a company’s existing tools, including software like Google Calendar, GitHub, PagerDuty and CircleCI. Two years ago , we profiled Okay, an engineering visibility tool helping engineering managers lead effective and engaged teams, which was fresh out of Y Combinator with $2.2

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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

For example, the lifecycle of a meeting typically starts with a calendar invite that may have an agenda from another app. Meanwhile, Loopin’s tasks feature helps each person track their action items by adding tasks to their calendar. If workers are wondering how they spend their time, they can look at Loopin’s calendar analytics.

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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. Being bogged down with busy work creates an obstacle to collaboration, making it harder to brainstorm the next big idea for a fundraising event, a campaign, or a partnership.