With more than 10 million daily active users and 85,000 paid customers, Slack is a well-established team chat market player. At the same time, its price bites. Slack is not the most expensive tool on the market, but it is certainly not the cheapest...
10 Easy Ways to Organize Your Desk for Maximum Productivity
Cleaning and organizing is a practice, not a project. – Meagan Francis Have you ever wondered how much time we actually spend working? According to Huffpost Australia’s research, over the course of a lifetime, an average person spends 4,821 days at...
Working with Millennials: Expert Tips, Stereotypes and Pure Facts
My close relative (a baby boomer) works in the concert business. He says he’s hired plenty of millennials – and they are all useless. ‘Hard to please’, ‘impossible to understand’, ‘lazy’ and ‘entitled’ ‘job hoppers’ – these are just a few epithets...
Flowdock vs Slack: Comparing Two Long-Standing Rivals on the Team Chat Market
Flowdock is one of the oldest team collaboration tools on the market. Announced in July 2009, the app launched public beta in March 2010 – more than three years before Slack! Unlike its more famous competitor, Flowdock was initially designed for...
Slack Review: Messaging, Calls, Integrations and Other Features
On August 14, 2013, the world media scene became flooded with publications about a new team chat. “An email killer’, ‘the newest enterprise social network’, ‘the next act of Flickr’s co-founder’ – this is how observers tagged Slack. On the landing...
Automate Your Workflows and Boost Productivity with Chanty + Zapier Integration
Team communication is a great way to improve your work productivity, but on its own, it’s not enough. To get the most out of Chanty, we’re introducing the integration with Zapier, the best automation tool out there – so that you can connect Chanty...
The Death of Email? 5 Reasons why Email will Become Outdated as a Form of Communication
In some shape or form, email has been around from as early as the 1970s. In the world of IT, where trends change in months, four decades is quite a long time. According to latest data, there was an astounding 3.8 billion email accounts in 2018, with...
How Workplace by Facebook is Taking on Slack? Comparing Chat, Call, Notification and Other Features
Launched in 2013, Slack continues to grow at a heady pace, boasting 10 million daily active users and 85,000 paid customers. Despite Slack’s blatant success, quite a few tools are breathing down its neck. Workplace by Facebook is surely one of them...
5 Actionable Ways to Become a Better Manager
People don’t quit jobs – they quit bosses. You’ve probably heard this one a few times. You’ve also probably left a job or two because the manager was impossible to bear, even though the work was fulfilling, challenging and paid well. Great managers...
How to Deal with Deluge of Unreads in Your Team Chat App
When it comes to our email inboxes, there are usually two types of people: those with 6289 unread emails and those with Inbox Zero. Whichever group you belong to, you probably think the other side is wrong. The logic is similar with team chat apps...
6 Tips for Lifting the Burden of Too Many Responsibilities
Busy is the new cool. Somewhere along the line, it became a badge of honor to have as many responsibilities as possible. Everywhere around you, there are stories of startup CEOs waking up at 4AM, having 80-hour work weeks, glorifying their struggle...
How to Avoid Rushing Through Life and Stop Being in a Constant Hurry
Despite all of the technological advancements, apps and productivity tips, it seems that we have less time every day and that we’re in constant hurry. On the other hand, data says otherwise, since people in developed countries have actually gained...
