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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Share on Twitter. Logi Analytics’ 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey showed that knowledge workers spend more than five hours a day in analytics, and more than 99% consider analytics very to extremely valuable when making critical decisions. Charles Caldwell. Contributor. Why is this the case?

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Now Salesforce officially owns Slack

The Verge

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” Butterfield said.

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How to craft the perfect email subject line

The Next Web

Even those of us who are tasked with creating email marketing campaigns aren’t immune to information overload: We all know what it’s like to be bombarded with email messages – all competing for a share of our attention during a busy day.

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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

TechCrunch

Collaboration is another core focus with features intended to help knowledge working teams be more productive as a unit; offering stuff like team role provisioning and custom workspaces to support different Session, app Sidebar and tabs set-ups, such as for a project or client. via better page load times). Slack acquisition.

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Oyster, an HR platform for distributed workforces, snaps up $50M on a $475M valuation

TechCrunch

The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Not only are more people wanting to work further afield, but at “home”, many companies — especially those who need to fill knowledge worker roles — are facing talent shortages.

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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. “The shift to remote work has made effective, asynchronous knowledge sharing more important than ever, and the market slowdown has caused companies to focus on efficiency.

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

The Verge

Slack Connect furthers the idea of shared channels that let companies collaborate, allowing up to 20 organizations to work seamlessly together with apps, chat, and more. Slack has even built a Slack Connect instance for doctors to share their experiences with each other in the fight against COVID-19 in recent months.

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