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• Slack goes after email with 'Connect DM' — opening up chats with folks outside your company

  Slack is useful to connect with your teammates and avoid sending them emails for things that can be discussed quickly through a chat. However, to talk to a person from a client or partner organization whom you interact with regularly, you’d need to email them and maybe even schedule ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 9 easy Slack tips to make remote more bearable for your team

  Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, Slack‘s Chief Product Officer, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘Human-centricity: building products with customers’ here. It will come as a surprise to no one that we’re pretty heavy users of Slack here at ...

  • Slack Blog

• Slack wants to make life easier for remote teams with its 5 new Workflow Builder templates

  Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, Slack's Chief Product Officer, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘Human-centricity: building products with customers’ here. Factors affecting our work settings and daily lives may be beyond our control at the moment, ...

  • Slack Blog

• Decline meetings, ignore Slack, block your calendar: How to find time to design again

  So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re ...

  • José Torre

• Slack accuses Microsoft of stifling competition in official EU complaint

  Slack is tired of Microsoft's attempts to undercut its market — so it's filing an anti-competitive complaint with the European ...

  • Mix

• Gmail is getting a massive redesign to work more like Slack

  Slack may have launched with the purpose of replacing email in the workplace, but recently, Google has been fighting back by trying to get email to replace Slack. Following a leak earlier in the day, Google today confirmed the company is planning its largest redesign to Gmail in years, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Slack announces Slack Connect, its attempt to replace email across businesses

  Email is slow, but when it comes to communicating across organizations, it's pretty much the best we've got. Now Slack thinks it can do you one better with Slack Connect. On the surface, the idea appears pretty simple: Slack Connect allows up to 20 organizations to communicate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to customize your new Slack interface

  If Slack's new look suddenly looks a little off, don't worry: There's a way to customize the app's interface to suit your ...

  • Mix

• Slack wants to let you call Microsoft Teams users (yes, you read that right)

  According to a report by CNBC, Slack is working on a method of letting you call people using Microsoft Teams. You know, its biggest competitor. "We're working on Teams integrations for calling features," said Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield during a call with RBC analyst Alex Zurkin ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to get rid of the annoying expandable hyperlinks on Slack

  Are Slack's recently introduced hyperlinks driving you insane with unwated link previews? Us too. Here's how to fix it with ...

  • Mix

• How Slack keeps employees focused while being a distracting app

  If there’s one technology that embodies the unreasonable demands of the always-on work culture that pervades so many companies today, it’s Slack. The group-chat app can make users feel tethered to their devices, often at the expense of doing more important tasks. Over ...

  • Nir Eyal

• Byte Me #9: Slack harassment, vagina bots, and pooping at work

  Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3

  • Cara Curtis