Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models The only way to opt out is by asking your company’s workspace owner to send Slack an email. will shanklin Updated Sun, May 19, 2024 Slack Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. … Continue reading Yuck: Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
By Jared Newman October 29, 2023 Slack’s big 2023 redesign has been rolling out for the past couple of months now, so there’s a solid chance it’s running on most or all of your workspaces. As with most redesigns, the new look has been divisive, with users bemoaning its extra navigation layers and (for … Continue reading Hate the Slack redesign? Try these tips
Slack will be getting artificially intelligent this winter, plus other Slack announcements. Kim Davis on September 7, 2023 Salesforce has announced that it has begun executing on earlier promises to add AI-powered capabilities to the collaboration platform Slack which it acquired just over two years ago. The headline announcement, Slack AI, will be in pilot … Continue reading Salesforce announces new AI and automation capabilities for Slack
By Grace Carroll March 15, 2023 Days after Silicon Valley Bank’s dramatic collapse, and just one day before Meta slashed another 10,000 employees, Vimeo’s chief product officer Ashraf Alkarmi, 776 partner Cristina Apple Georgoulakis, and Slack senior vice president Rob Seaman talked to Fast Company about the grim economic outlook surrounding Silicon Valley, … Continue reading Tech leaders from Vimeo, Slack, and 776 share insights on staying innovative during an economic downturn
Sales, marketing and customer support teams connect through ActiveCampaign app for Slack. Chris Wood on April 4, 2022 Customer experience automation company ActiveCampaign has extended its integration with Slack to connect sales, marketing and customer support teams and operations. The ActiveCampaign app for Slack can be used by small organizations, as well as large enterprises. … Continue reading ActiveCampaign extends Slack integration
Stefan Wolpers November 5, 2021 TL; DR: Maximizing Utilization as a Relic from the Industrial Management Past There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if the focus of the organization is on … Continue reading Maximizing Utilization, Ignoring Slack Time — Making Your Scrum Work
Andrew Conrad — July 10, 2018 — July 10, 2018 For the Boomer generation, freedom meant car ownership. They shrugged off their overbearing parents and zipped around the country in Impalas, Mustangs, and Cortinas. Boomers coveted the open road, independence, and even disconnection. For Millennials, liberation is access to the internet. Millennials, as a community-oriented … Continue reading The Top 10 Slack Alternatives for Small Businesses
Katie Jansen — January 5, 2018 — January 5, 2018 Free-Photos / Pixabay Meetings can kill companies. Psychology Today found that as much as 50% of time spent in meetings is wasted, and we all know time is money. Another study found that most employees attend 62 meetings a month on average. Nearly everyone agrees … Continue reading Another Meeting? Cut Me Some Slack, Man!
Mindi Rosser — September 13, 2017 Follow @MindiRRosser — September 13, 2017 In my previous article, I introduced the up and coming Slack tool and how it serves as an alternative for LinkedIn, which is closing its groups. More about Slack here: SLACK COMMUNITIES I LOVE I’ve noticed that I enjoy engaging more on Slack … Continue reading Should Businesses Use LinkedIn Groups or Slack for Prospecting? Part 2
Mindi Rosser — August 18, 2017 Follow @MindiRRosser — August 18, 2017 If you’ve checked out your LinkedIn groups lately, you may notice that LinkedIn groups are not what they used to be. As much as I had hoped that LinkedIn’s changes to groups would have a positive effect, not much has changed in the … Continue reading Should Businesses Use LinkedIn Groups or Slack For Prospecting? Part 1
