Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

On Wednesday January 27th, 2021, Microsoft Office 365 experienced an outage affected a number of its services with a prolonged outage affecting Exchange Online.

Collaborating on a project means getting your entire team to work together to make sure it gets delivered. Sounds pretty simple, right? Not so fast—because it’s easier said than done. Project collaboration takes work. You need to get your team on the same page, and you must also make sure that everybody working on the project has the capacity, skillset, and tools to work together and deliver the project.

Future Forum releases Q4 results of remote employee experience index data

In this series, I explain how to use Twitch EventSub and Courier to automatically send notifications to multiple destinations – Slack, Discord, and more – when your Twitch stream goes live. In part one, we built a Node.js app using Express.js to accept events from Twitch EventSub. Now, in part two, we’re going to listen for our event and trigger a notification using Courier.

At Asana, we’re committed to supporting our employees as they grow personally and professionally. We believe the best way to support career growth is to provide a framework, benefits, and culture that allows growth to happen. Then, the path to actually getting there is up to them. Growth isn’t linear—but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important. According to the Anatomy of Work Index 2021, global employees want work that is personally and professionally fulfilling.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Environments in Courier. You can now create, preview, and troubleshoot your notifications in a test environment before going live. With support for two environments – Test and Production – you no longer have to worry about accidentally sending a notification to your users before you’re ready.

Having good technical skills and deep knowledge of your work is always great. It helps to keep you ahead of the competition and enhances productivity. But soft skills for managers are equally important. But, none of this will matter if you can’t manage your team efficiently or communicate with them properly. The knowledge is also of no use if your team doesn’t trust your instinct or your ideas. To succeed and evolve in your career, you will need strong soft skills.

It’s truly difficult to put into numbers just how enormous the change represented by COVID-19 has been to us all. Seemingly overnight, the ongoing pandemic (that we’re still firmly in the middle of) changed the way we work, the way we communicate, the way we collaborate and so much more.

Mattermost has always been a remote-first company. Building a product that safely and securely allows our teams to communicate with each other regardless of geography or distance is the cornerstone of our philosophy on working remotely. Over the last year, the world of working online from home changed dramatically. Many people have been forced to move into a working situation they might not have been familiar with.