Nine of the best team chat tools for making your team extra productive this year With eight million active users and three million paid users, Slack is the darling of the business communication world. Indeed, the tool is hip and smart. It’s often praised for having multiple integrations, friendly UX and other features. At the […]
Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield was recently interviewed on “Bloomberg Studio 1.0” where he discussed the likelihood that Slack will continue to grow and dominate messaging and workplace efficiency: Slack’s Enormous Growth and Future Goals We’re unbounded in terms of opportunity and we’re unbounded in terms of resources. The market is just way bigger than
Launched in 2014, Slack has become one of the fastest growing business apps today. With 8 million daily active users, and 500,000 organizations connecting, Slack gives people from all over the world a way to improve, no matter their industry or niche – including blogging. Slack aims to bring teams together to boost productivity and
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On August 16, Slack experienced connectivity issues in the middle of the working day, with certain features not working. The messaging app services was down for some time until Slack resolved the problem. Slack’s outage followed similar software outage failures this year. In fact, in a year from April 2017, the leading business messaging service suffered 40 days with
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Flock is offering a whole year of Flock Pro for free to teams on HipChat and Stride after they were acquired by Slack. Not only did Slack buy both companies from Atlassian, but it is shutting them down. Flock vs Slack There is a battle brewing in the real-time, chat-based communications market as more of
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The saying “If you can’t beat them, join them” certainly holds true for Atlassian and Slack. The former is selling its rights to HipChat and Stride to rival Slack and will even making a small investment in the company. The surprising news was announced recently by Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Aside from tweeting his company’s
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Microsoft is gearing up for its yearly Inspire event and has drummed up interest with the announcement of a free version of Microsoft Teams. The Teams platform has been around since 2016 and 200,000 companies are now using it. However, the lack of a free version or a freemium tier and the $60 annual fee
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As a 100% distributed company with remote work employees across the US (and one in Canada!), WebDevStudios (WDS) relies on Slack as our main internal communication tool. So when Slack goes down, as it did yesterday, our team is directly affected, but the reactions are pretty comical. When you’re working remote and @SlackHQ has been
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The integration of apps within Slack are becoming more intuitive thanks to the new tool it just launched called Actions. Any Slack message can now be turned into a follow-up or next step using Jira, Bitbucket, Asana, Zendesk, HubSpot, and more without leaving Slack. Introducing Slack Actions The goal for Slack is to be a
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In its bid to become more than just a messaging platform, Slack has been collaborating with several companies to building integrations across apps. Called “Actions,” this simple shortcut lets you work with productivity tools like Asana, Zendesk, Jira, and Hubspot, among others without leaving the app. Similar to Slackbots, Actions let users turn any Slack conversations
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