slack
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How to Prepare Now for Slack’s Next Outage
When Slack goes down, it’s a big deal. In 2019, the workplace communications software company announced it had over 10 million daily users — and as workers shifted to home office settings amid the pandemic the following year, needing increasing ways to stay connected with colleagues, we can safely guess that number went up. Slack,…
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Use Slack ‘Clips’ to Avoid Brief, Pointless Meetings
If remote work has taught us anything, it’s that many of our meetings are unnecessary and overly complicated, especially if teams are spread across time zones. Unless collaboration is essential to the agenda, we can often get everything we need in just a few minutes on our own time. Slack has been working on a…
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9 Slack Customisations You Should Try to Make Work Easier (or More Fun)
Depending on your job, chances are you’re spending hours on Slack. It’s become “where work happens,” like their tagline says. But you might not feel at home with the stock Slack configuration, and there are plenty of ways to make it your own? Here’s how to personalise your Slack account, from adding custom emojis, to…
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Update Your Slack Passwords Now, Android Users
Over the weekend, some Slack Android users received a seemingly random email urging them to update their passwords. The email claims a bug in the Android app incorrectly logged password data as plaintext that could be easily scooped up by hackers.