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Zoom: A Guide to Key Metrics and Leadership Best Practices in Remote Workspaces

✏️The TL;DR: in this comprehensive look at the remote work landscape, we explore the role of Zoom and its emergence as a critical tool, delve into key metrics that provide insights into team productivity, and highlight the importance of leadership best practices in managing a healthy, thriving remote work

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Managing Chaos: Unleashing the Power of Project Management Apps in 2023

This comprehensive guide will help you navigate this question by comparing seven popular project management apps on key criteria, diving deep into their strengths, weaknesses, and unique founding stories.

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Harnessing Slack: The Top 6 Metrics for Better Team Engagement and Collaboration

This post will detail 6 metrics we've found to be the most informative and useful for teams. These are accessible to everyone in your team in ALLO, promoting a collective understanding of communication dynamics.

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5 Essential Project Management Metrics in GitHub, Jira, and Asana: A Comprehensive Guide

Can you easily identify the "trending" or popular issues? Who is completing tasks at the highest rate? Which Pull Requests are most active, and which repositories have seen a surge in activity in the past fortnight?

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Say Hello to Activity, Google Calendar, and Third-Party App Integrations in Allo

Let’s face it: meetings are a waste of time. However, it’s crucial that managers and employees stay on the same page when it comes to understanding key business goals and expectations. If you aren’t reaching out for feedback, setting up a 1:1 with your team, or

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How Allo helps you eliminate data silos from your business

Data silos can be a major problem for startups. Learn what data silos are, why they’re bad for your business, and how Allo helps you avoid them.

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Allo Updates | December 2022

Announcing major updates to Allo! Link OKRs to Projects and Canvases, Project has a whole new look, plus more improvements to Post, Search, and Allo for mobile/tablet devices

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How to write OKR objectives that focus your team and level up performance

Writing great objectives as a part of an Objectives and Key Results goal setting process (OKRs) can be daunting, especially if you're just getting started and have never done it before. Luckily, there are some tried and true methods for writing objectives that are sure to set you

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Announcing a whole new Allo

A little over two years ago, an unprecedented pandemic triggered the biggest disruption to work since the steam engine. With no safe way to gather together in the office, we all started working from home. And for the most part, that was a good change. Remote work is more efficient.

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Virtual workspace to work digitally with your team

With many regions under strict lockdown and quarantine restrictions, the pandemic changed how the corporate industry functioned and paved the way for different ways of working. The most widely adopted work model was remote work, which led to virtual workspaces. In this blog, we’ll understand what a virtual workspace

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How to lead remote work teams?

Whether you’ve always worked in a traditional workforce or have been asked to lead a brand new distributed team, leading remote work teams can be quite challenging. Employees and businesses alike have realized the benefits associated with remote work. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the popularity of working

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How to encourage creative thinking in remote teams

It’s not uncommon to find remote workforce critics claiming that innovation and creativity are only effective in a traditional office setting. They think innovation and creativity take a backseat with remote teams. With businesses all over the world working with a global workforce for nearly two years, it’s

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What are virtual team-building experiences?

Virtual teams don’t find a lot of opportunities to socialize, which can make things challenging for remote workers to get to know each other and build a relationship with new members. In this blog, we’ll talk about virtual team-building experiences and how they can help a remote workforce

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Tips for running a successful online Brainstorming session

Brainstorming sessions are an excellent way for teams to generate out-of-the-box ideas and explore different opportunities. Generating creative ideas is a challenging task for teams even when they are together in the same room. With companies going remote, it has simply added to this challenge. This can lead to a

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How to overcome remote work challenges

Fifteen months ago, the pandemic had all but pushed the entire corporate industry into adopting the remote work model. While not many businesses were happy with the scenario, the benefits of working remotely soon became evident. Since then, several studies have proven that remote teams are healthier, more productive, and

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How to plan more effective and productive weekly meetings

Businesses all over the world have shifted to remote work in the face of the COVID19 pandemic. However, hosting meetings virtually comes with its own set of challenges. While we would love to believe that all our online meetings are 100% productive, we all know that isn’t true. Quite

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🔍 Search and filter canvases in a project

When the number of canvases gets big in a project, sometimes it can be overwhelming to look at everything at once. You can now search and filter out the canvases that are relevant at the time inside a project. See below to learn how to use these features in Allo.

⚙️ Increase productivity by utilizing Canvas details

We use canvases to collaborate and communicate, document meeting notes and discussions, and plan and iterate projects. And canvas details can be set to help you achieve your goals and organize your tasks more efficiently. For each canvas, we can set its color, assignees, collaborators, date and time, tags, location,

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🔔 Understanding the canvas notification system in Allo

Currently, different canvas notifications are being sent out in Allo based on whether you are a subscriber of the canvas or not. In this manual, we will walk you through what kind of canvas notifications you will get when you are not a canvas subscriber, when you are a canvas

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New Year, New Cursors

Allo 2022! It’s a new year, and we’ve been hard at work over the holidays to meet it with new features! The more the merrier may be true, but we often find it hard to know who’s who. Now you’ll never need to guess with our

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Different models of remote work post-pandemic

The pandemic pushed the entire corporate world to forcefully accept remote work. Fast forward fifteen months later, companies have embraced the remote work lifestyle and understood how beneficial it could be to the success of their business. With the world gradually opening up, companies have started calling their employees back

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How remote work fosters personal and professional growth

With tech giants like Facebook and Twitter leading the remote work revolution, the world is gradually adopting an entirely remote or a hybrid work model for their future. The primary reason is that businesses have experienced first-hand how beneficial a remote workforce is for their success. This stance on remote

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Benefits of a remote working lifestyle

The pandemic has brought about some much-needed changes to the corporate world. Though the concept of a remote working lifestyle isn’t new, it was primarily enterprises in Silicon Valley that hired remote employees. However, now that people all over the world have gotten a taste of what remote work

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How to manage your remote workers and perform tasks quickly when working remotely

The pandemic has introduced monumental changes to our life, both personal and professional. While the impact has mostly been negative, it pushed us to adopt a global remote work model, which may otherwise never have happened. Now, companies all over the world have realized the benefits of remote work and

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Use Allo like a Pro 💡

Here are 3 ways to use Allo like a pro. Get more done with Allo using this list! Protected Lock 🔒 Protect any part of your canvas using a protected lock on that canvas element. This will prevent collaborators or students from modifying certain elements. Try Protected Lock Customizable Canvas and