Work Week | How Not To Connect

| Slack Steps In It | Staffbase Raises $145M | Airtable Valued at $5.7B | Box on the Block | CoScreen Launches |:::Photo by Stephen Phillips — Hostreviews.co.uk on UnsplashIn Slack is becoming a full messaging app, David Pierce breathlessly wrote about Slack’s allowing direct messaging across the ecosystem of users:It’s [texting] the highest, most elusive...

Feb 2022

Circling Back To Dropbox Spaces

How is the beta test proceeding?Continue reading on GigaOm »

Feb 2022

Work Week | Ahren’s Challenge

| LinkedIn Marketplaces | Virtual Events Are Hot: Hopin and Hubilo | Asynch Video: Weet | Microsoft Viva |Photo by Philipp Berndt on UnsplashQuote of the MomentIt is a huge misunderstanding that the only alternative to planning is aimless messing around. The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the...

Feb 2022

Work Week | Focus and Asynchronous Communication

The pandemic is leading people away from endless video meetingsPhoto by Stefan Cosma on UnsplashI came upon Complish a few months ago and thought I might fool with it before writing it up. However, my time is so limited these days I haven’t had a chance. But I want to draw attention to the founders’ motivation to building a content-centric, asynchronous...

Feb 2022

Work Week | Trello Goes Overboard

Trello is becoming more like a spreadbase, like Notion, Airtable, or CodaTrello has announced the availability of a variety of new views, so users are no longer limited to the now-familiar kanban board. Now, those who upgrade to Business Class (14 day free trial) can use timeline, table, calendar, dashboard, and map views.The table view shows that Trello...

Feb 2022

Work Week | Microsoft Viva Changes Everything

Employee experience platforms, not intranetsContinue reading on GigaOm »

Feb 2021

Work Week | One Step Beyond Logic

| Citrix buys Wrike | Personio raises $125M | SalesLoft raises $100M | Softr raises $2.2M | Divvy raises $165M |Photo by Shane on UnsplashToday’s Work Week is inspired by Frank Herbert:Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.| Frank Herbert, DuneI...

Jan 2021

Work Week | Execution Versus Innovation

| Virtual Events: Hopin buys Streamyard | PPM: Planview buys Clarizen, Changepoint | OKR: Gtmhub raises $30M | Work Chat: Channel Calendars |Photo by Ian Schneider on UnsplashI took some time off over the holidays and I am astonished by how much has been going on in work technology, both on the innovation and the execution side of things.:::Quote of...

Jan 2021

Working in Notion | Part 2

The intersection of journaling and work managementContinue reading on GigaOm »

Jan 2021

Enterprise-Ready-As-A-Service: WorkOS

Crossing the enterprise-readiness chasmContinue reading on GigaOm »

Dec 2020