Work Week | Not Everyone Will Be There

|LoNo: Airtable, Slack, Unito | Hypertext: Roam Raises $200M | Conferencing: Google Meet Series One |Continue reading on GigaOm »

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Work Week | Virtual Water Cooler

| MO: Slack, Donut, Hallway, Sidekick | Email: Hey | Slacklash | Dialpad + Highfive | Project Oakdale |Photo by visuals on UnsplashMinimum OfficeSlack shares plunge as growth stays steady with no coronavirus spike | Jordan Novet reports on the market response to Slack’s quarterly results, which are flat, despite the coronavirus surge for others, notably...

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Three Meta Patterns in Work Technology

Across all flavors of work technology, we can discern very similar patterns behind the platformsContinue reading on GigaOm »

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Weak Ties and Brainstorming

What we miss when we don’t organically share spaceContinue reading on GigaOm »

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Interview | Kuleen Mehtat of Wrike

How AI and machine learning can improve work managementContinue reading on GigaOm »

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Work Week | Infrastructure and Ultrastructure

| Funding: Mural, Asana | Slack: The Netscape of Work Chat? | Tech Resistance |Photo by Levi Frey on Unsplash:::FundingVisual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B | Alex Wilhelm reports on workboard platform Mural new round, which has seen strong growth since its $23 million series A in 2019.In emails with TechCrunch, MURAL disclosed...

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Work Week | Lots Of Funding Going On

| Intranets: Simpplr | Spreadbases: Coda | Work Platforms: ClickUp | Startups Still Being Funded | Microsoft 10-K |Photo by Chronis Yan on Unsplash:::IntranetsIntranet Creator Simpplr Secures $10M in Series B Funding | Christine Hall reports on new funding for Simpler, which has raised a total of $30 million since its founding in 2014. The funds will...

Aug 2020

Work Week | All Eyes On Google

| Slack versus The World | Remote Security | Coronavirus Impacts | HR Automation | Elsewhere: The New Gmail, Wordpress P2 |Photo by Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk on UnsplashSlack versus The WorldThe big winner in Slack’s Microsoft fight could be Google | Tom Warren asks the same question I did about Slack complaints about Microsoft Teams bundling...

Aug 2020

P2 | A Minimal Work Media Tool

Quick to get up and running, but won’t replace a full work platformContinue reading on GigaOm »

Aug 2020

Work Week | All Roads Lead To Chat?

| Work Chat: Element, Slack, Microsoft | Project Management: Outlook Spaces | Video Calls: What’s With Cisco? |Photo by Daniel Korpai on UnsplashWork ChatSlack-rival Element wins largest ever collaborative software deal | Michael Stothard draws attention to a European rival of Slack and Teams, called Element, that I confess I had never heard of. The...

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