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HIPAA-Compliant Slack Alternatives: 7 Options for Healthcare

Your next patient is waiting. A colleague needs an answer before their shift ends. Somewhere in Slack, there’s a conversation you need to catch up on. First, you have to figure out which channel it’s in, whether someone replied in a thread, and which notification on your screen actually matters. On a quieter day, that might be a minor annoyance. In healthcare, you can’t always count on a quieter day.

Employee Advocacy Statistics: What the Latest Research Means for Your Team

Your marketing team shares a company update internally. The message is ready, the link works, and employees are encouraged to post it. Then very little happens. It is easy to assume people are uninterested. But perhaps the request arrived during a busy workday, without explaining why the news matters or what employees could add to it. Some may be unsure what they are allowed to say. Others may like their employer but prefer to keep company promotion off their personal profiles.

Say yes to AI context without losing control: a new way to set up and govern connectors in Atlassian Administration

Maya runs IT for Beaconstone Financial, a fintech company with 2,000 employees. Her engineering teams work in Jira and GitHub. Sales lives in Salesforce. Most decisions happen in Slack threads, Google Docs, and SharePoint folders that nobody can find six months later. Leadership wants Rovo to answer questions across all of it. Her head of sales has asked for account briefs that pull in the latest Salesforce opportunity data and last week’s customer call.

Intro to Asana Client Management: Asana for Agencies and Professional Services

Asana Client Management is built for agencies and professional services firms. This walkthrough covers the core features, including the Client Portal, Meetings, AI Teammates, Client Directory, and Team Capacity. Most agencies run into the same three problems: client communication spread across channels, every question landing on the account manager, and margin risk that shows up too late. This video shows how Asana Client Management handles each one.

Every shift, every site, every team: Introducing Slack Frontline

To your customers, your frontline workers are your brand: the shop assistant who finds the right size, the warehouse lead who ships the order, the home nurse who checks in. They make up about 80% of the global workforce, yet they’ve been left out of the last decade of workplace transformation. While corporate teams have agents, instant customer data and connected systems, the frontline often runs on paper checklists and group texts, without even a corporate email address.