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Slack announced the beta release of Shared Channels at Frontiers, its first customer, partner and developer event taking place in San Francisco.
Shared Channels, according to the San Francisco-based company, provides organizations with a space where they can work with people both inside and outside the company.
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Adobe has released new features for its email marketing platform aimed at helping marketers act on insights, send multi-language email campaigns and access more design templates.
Adobe announced the updates to its Adobe Campaign platform, part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Campaign helps marketers send contextual email and cross-channel
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As much as the naysayers will hate to hear it, for communication and collaboration, email still reigns supreme.
When I look back at my articles, reports and blogs from the past seven years, I can see how my thinking about email has evolved.
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Office 365 is the default email client for companies worldwide. These same companies often default to using the platform as a tool for workflows and task management.
While the platform offers functionality in both areas, there’s a pretty big gap between where it is now, and where it could be.
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Microsoft wasn't the only company making announcements during its Inspire partner conference last week.
Its partners got into the action as well, announcing a number of releases and additions for Microsoft products.
Of these, Nimble’s new add-in for Office 365 and Outlook stands out.
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Think ‘free’ and you don’t generally think Microsoft. That, however, is about to change.
During its Inspire partner conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C., the Redmond, Wash.-based company announced the release of Connections, a free email marketing app.
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According to the latest Nielsen Total Audience Report, US adults spend almost 11 hours a day consuming media. That translates to 70 percent of waking time.
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Verizon closed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business this week and with it came Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's resignation and news of layoffs.
Reuters news agency reported Verizon will slash at least 2,000 jobs as it integrates Yahoo into AOL, which Verizon bought two years ago.
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MailChimp is on a roll. Two months ago, it started offering its marketing automation tools for free. Now it's offering ecommerce solution PrestaShop consumers free integration with MailChimps marketing tools.
Paris-based PrestaShop is a free, open source ecommerce solution. The software is published under the Open Software License
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Holiday weekends aren't normally a time when vendors upgrade or release new products. However, this Memorial Day weekend, Google made an exception. It added a new Personal Tab to its search engine to help users find personal information more effectively.
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MailChimp is giving away the goods.
Namely, its automated marketing email capabilities — previously only available at extra cost — are now being offered gratis to all of its 15 million existing customers.
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Every marketing team worth its weight in retweets knows the value of email marketing. Even those who believe that email is dying a slow death admit that — for now at least — email marketing still works.
But for the naysayers, here’s where email marketing stands in 2017.
The Abridged Case for Email Marketing
Building an
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Microsoft started rolling out its Outlook Customer Manager (OCM) for general release this week, adding a few updates to what it had initially previewed last November.
The initial release provided an OCM iOS app and cloud-based customer relationship management solution designed for small businesses.
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Is email really a scourge that needs to be eradicated?
If you read the popular business press in the last few weeks, you just might think so.
A recent Wall Street Journal article, "Beware Collaboration-Tool Overload," quotes an enterprise IT manager boasting that by adopting the new Microsoft
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