Events and happenings in the enterprise messaging & collaboration community.
If you’re getting too many Microsoft Teams notifications, rest assured you’re not alone. Or perhaps you’re not getting any and there’s clearly a problem. Or maybe it’s that you’re getting some but at the wrong time and they’re not the ones you want. In order to avoid notification overload on any platform, it’s important to ...
Blair Pleasant is an independent analyst, President and Principal Analyst of COMMfusion, and co-founder of BCStrategies. She has 20+ years of experience in unified communications and helps both end-user and vendor clients, and provides a variety of custom consulting services. With the rise of the hybrid workplace, online communication is more important than ever. Blair ...
In April 2022, Zoom launched a new revamped virtual whiteboard feature. The new whiteboard includes key collaboration features like: Persistence: Zoom Whiteboard is now accessible not only during Zoom meetings but also as a standalone feature before and after meetings. This is great for asynchronous collaboration. Power: You and your team can attach sticky notes, ...
If you’re looking to integrate Microsoft Teams with Zoom Phone, this post shows you where to find the integration, how to set up the two, and the benefits of taking such an action. Why would you want to integrate Zoom Phone and Microsoft Teams in the first place? There are a number of reasons: You’re ...
Let’s talk about Microsoft Teams etiquette. Does it matter? Do people really care how you message each other? Are interruptions really that bad for productivity? The answer here is quite simple. Yes. It’s not just the way you use Teams but the impact of what you do on other people. Just because you do something ...
Slack etiquette. A phrase you’re familiar with or an alien concept? It’s rarely anything in between. The nature of chat apps makes it tempting to blur the lines of workplace conversation. Are emojis unprofessional? Should I share a photo of my breakfast? How do I reply to messages without breaking up the flow of conversation? ...
If you have both Slack and Microsoft Teams, Zapier is a great place to start connecting the two. Using Zapier’s “if this, then that” (IFTTT) triggers, you can create basic Zaps to mirror activities on both platforms. Here are some of the things you can use Zapier for when you need to connect Slack and ...
When researching how to use threads in Microsoft Teams, you get a lot of negativity from users used to Slack threads and other platforms like Reddit where threads are the lifeblood. Rather than this be a blog post comparing how different platforms use threads, we’ve asked Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot, to author a section on ...