Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Meetings are an important part of everyday company communication, decision making, and team building. People attend an average of 11M meetings each day, 55M meetings per week, and 220M meetings per year.

As the modern Intranet finds a home in more and more companies, they are learning to leverage it to fit their unique organizational needs. Simpplr wants to encourage your business by sharing what you can accomplish to build organizational-wide collaboration, enhance your employees’ engagement, and create a company culture that is distinctive yet complementary to your work environment.

Jive is a well-known intranet and collaboration software. Founded in 2001, it is one of the pioneers in the team collaboration industry. Having said that, Jive is not the only team collaboration software available in the market. There are plenty of tools (both old and new ones) which are great alternatives to Jive. In this article, we have used our experience in the team collaboration space and compared Jive with similar tools based on features, price, and user reviews.

Student collaboration tools are becoming increasingly important in contemporary education. When students collaborate, they are engaged in the learning process. Thus, collaboration in the classroom can lead to improved learning outcomes. However, student collaboration takes many forms today. Since digital education is being introduced to schools and universities, a new way to collaborate outside the classroom had to be designed.

The educational sector is currently going through major changes. The pandemic has made all education switch online for a while - and this was a wake-up call for many schools and universities to start investing in software for education. It is evident that the whole education system is lagging behind when it comes to digital transformation. However, the pandemic kick-started the growth of the EdTech market, which is expected to reach $404B by 2025.

The current global epidemic has definitely changed the workplace sphere — a digital setup became a must in efforts of continuing operations. Now that much progress is being made with vaccine rollout in hopefully seeing an end to the pandemic, employers are exploring new work arrangements. One of which is a middle ground between working remotely and physically — a hybrid workplace setup.

Why do people choose the jobs they do? This intriguing thought was the subject of a conversation between Amanda Berry, Manager of Corporate Brand & Communications and Head of Internal Communications at Simpplr, and LaToya Lyn, Chief People Officer at Help Scout, during the tenth Cohesion Podcast. The question “Why do people choose the jobs they do?” was also the catalyst of LaToy’s quest for understanding the dynamics of how people go through their career journey.

Digital transformation in the public sector is already a reality. More than ever, public sector organizations are becoming aware of their need for digitalization. Even so, change is not always easy since public-sector organizations have high standards and specific requirements for online solutions. Data privacy is government agencies’ top concern; they’re the ones that should set the bar when it comes to protecting users’ information.

Messaging apps are meant to be simple, but the sheer volume of them can be overwhelming. You speak to Gran on Facebook because, let’s be honest, that’s the only app she knows how to use. Then we have Lucy over on Instagram. Your friends are split between Signal and Telegram. The family group chat is on WhatsApp, where you can’t get a word in edgeways. Your longtime work friend Jonathan keeps in touch via LinkedIn. All things work related go via email… and so on.