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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

Meetings are essential to helping teams, especially remote or hybrid ones, stay in touch. But too many meetings can become unproductive, as shared information and action items get buried underneath all the other stuff workers have to do. If workers are wondering how they spend their time, they can look at Loopin’s calendar analytics.

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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

Chuck Phillips is the co-founder of MeetWell , an application that enables teams to achieve a better work-life balance while saving companies money by reducing the amount of bad meetings they attend. So the first step is to start keeping meeting metrics so that you can identify the bad meetings on your teamscalendars.

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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. Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In

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

TechCrunch

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 What we’ve seen in the past couple years is a transition for people, managers and teams on how to manage teams fully remote,” Boulanger added.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This connects very nicely to the leadership development for emerging leaders that I’ve been working on lately. 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. Make Solo Time A Part of Your Team Culture.

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

TechCrunch

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. But there’s nothing quite like that in the market.”

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