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June 22, 2016
10 Ways To Make Slack Simpler, Safer, And Less Annoying
Is your Slack team just starting up—or getting out of control? Advice from the author of the new book Take Control of Slack Admin.
Slack is a productivity tool, designed to make it easier for groups—especially ones spread out across buildings, regions, or continents—to work together seamlessly. But we all know that easy communications can be a two-edged sword.
Dropbox Announces New Tools To Make Collaboration Easier For Businesses
New Dropbox for Business features include new ways to both capture and share content.
Each year, Dropbox spends thousands of hours just watching people work. The hope is to get a glimpse into their workflows, what's working for them and what isn't, and what Dropbox can do to make their experience using the service a little easier.
Beyond Meat's Quest To Get Its Veggie Burger In The Supermarket's Meat Case
The plant-based meat company wants to change how we think about protein—and that starts with where in the store you find it. But most stores aren't ready to get on board.
With the help of a team of scientists from Stanford University, Caltech, and elsewhere, Beyond Meat spent more than three years developing its Beyond Burger, a veggie burger that aims to closely simulate the feel of eating meat. It hit the aisles at Whole Foods in Boulder, Colorado, last month, making headlines and selling out within a few days.
Will Trump's Misogyny Deter Women From Entering Politics?
In a new book, a scholar shows that women fare as well as men in politics. But the rhetoric in this election might make us think otherwise.
If you're a woman dreaming of a career in U.S. politics, the current fight between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton might be enough to make you run in the opposite direction of Capitol Hill. The misogyny that has bubbled on the campaign trail is unlike anything America has ever seen.
Why New York City Is Better for Women Entrepreneurs Than San Francisco
A new report reveals what it takes to level the playing field for women entrepreneurs around the world.
New York City ranks first overall among the top 25 cities for women entrepreneurs, ahead of San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin, according to the Dell Women Entrepreneur Cities Index (WE Cities), released today at the White House's Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
7 Ways To Maintain Your Professional Network Without Annoying Your Contacts
These simple tips can keep your name on your contacts' radar regularly but unobtrusively.
Ever notice how moving forward in your career comes down to networking? Eighty percent of job openings are never publicly advertised, according to a 2013 Wall Street Journal article. That makes all those business cards you've collected and LinkedIn connections you've made extremely important.
Four Skills Effective Managers Need More Than They Used To
You can't manage your teams the same way you might have done a decade ago and expect the same results.
What's true in life is true for managers in 2016: Some things change, some things stay the same. But how do you know which ones fall into which category? For starters, effective managers do what they've always done: lead a team of people to efficiently convert a vision into an actual reality. They know how to head off problem scenarios and mitigate those that do arise before they spiral out of control.
June 21, 2016
Be Prepared: We're Entering A Post-Device Era
The new frontier in personal computing may be cloud services that run on less powerful devices.
One of the most famous tech-related commentaries expressed in the past 10 years is Steve Jobs's declaration of the "post-PC era." While the Apple founder's quote in early June of 2010 referred specifically to the revolution that the iPad was expected to bring, the phrase has evolved into a nearly universal commentary about transitions in the tech market.
Siri's Cautious Expansion To Third-Party Apps Is Vintage Apple
Apple takes the slow-and-steady approach to opening up its virtual assistant.
Almost immediately after Apple introduced Siri in 2011, people started speculating about when the virtual assistant might open up to third-party apps.
5 Tech Tools For The Budding Yogi In All Of Us
For International Yoga Day, here are some apps and wearables to get you flexing.
No matter if you're a proud yogi or a fitness noob, yoga's health benefits are undeniable, from increased focus to physical (and mental) flexibility.
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