Category: Instant Messaging

By now, you might be familiar with workplace instant messaging and its many advantages. Offering comprehensive collaborative tools for streamlined real-time communication, it’s no wonder that enterprise instant messaging is taking off in workplaces all over. But what else can it do for you or your workplace? Much, much...

Fads come and go, fading from the conversation almost as quickly as they enter it. And the tech world certainly isn’t immune to these hyped and insanely popular – albeit short-lived – crazes. Think 3D TV or Google Glass. Actually, you probably don’t think about them anymore. Some innovations...

It can be hard to keep pace with the constantly evolving business communication landscape. More and more, workplace phone calls and emails are being replaced with popular business instant messaging platforms as a way to better optimize internal communication and collaboration. And if your workplace is one of the...

When your workday centers around the computer, it’s easy to get distracted, especially as more and more workplaces utilize instant messaging. The constant contact with your coworkers and peers, and with a smart phone and the internet at your fingertips, can be a recipe for time-wasting, misbehavior, and misunderstandings....

If you’re new to instant messaging, you may not be aware of its advantages. Or you may be hesitant to fully commit to an unfamiliar way of communication. By now, though, it’s worth seeing what it can do for your communication – especially in the workplace. Below we’ll help...

It’s been quite a journey – from the initial trailblazing instant messaging platforms which first introduced us to real-time communication, to the contemporary apps which allow for group, voice, and video chat, the sharing of media, streamlined workplace collaboration, and so much more. While instant messaging apps don’t always...

Online communication is as much a part of our daily routine as the morning coffee. And chat apps, thanks to their real-time capabilities, have become a preferred method of communication – making it easier and more convenient to keep in touch with family and friends, as well as enhancing...

Today, the internet offers a number of ways to both share and send files. If you’ve heard terms like “file sharing” and “file transfer,” you may have wondered what the difference is. While file sharing and file transfer both allow you to share and send files, it’s important you...

The recent announcement that Atlassian will discontinue Hipchat and Stride is yet another shakeup in the rapidly changing field of personal and enterprise instant messaging platforms. With the news, it was announced that Slack, the popular team chat service, will acquire both Hipchat and Stride. Atlassian attributes the decision...

With the growing number of instant messengers out there today, you probably aren’t alone in thinking they’re mostly all the same. You probably even have your favorite platform – which allows you text, voice and video chat, and probably even file transfer. But if you or your employees are...