The Cost of Context Switching (and How To Avoid It)
We know multitasking isn’t a sustainable way to work. But there’s a far less talked about consequence of working nonstop, whether you’re trying to multitask or not: context switching, which underscores the immense toll that task switching takes on your brain.
How to use Trello and Confluence to streamline business processes
When you step back to think about what stands in the way between your team and peak productivity, it’s tempting to point the finger at a bunch of different factors.
Colorful and accessible theming in Trello with CSS custom properties
The Trello engineering, design, and product teams recently created new colorful and accessible board themes using CSS custom properties (also known as CSS variables). We began with the following questions: While applying a dark or light theme to an application is common, how can we build a fun, dynamic theme that is inspired by the […]
How to Adapt to the “New Normal” of All-Remote Work
What does this mean for what the workplace looks like when we have the option to return to the office post-vaccine? We believe the “work wherever, whenever” era isn’t a future possibility; it’s already here, and all signs point to it being here to stay.
How to Use Mobile Screen Recording for Product Design QA
As Loom’s Mobile Product Designer, it’s important for me to quickly review new work as it’s built by an engineer — both to ensure visual consistency with my designs and to check for any bugs, quirks, or errors. For example, sharing work and giving feedback asynchronously was crucial during Loom’s rebrand, which helped us work […]
How to Overcome Camera Shyness or Phobia
When I started working at Loom three years ago, my job was to help build a product that made communicating at work more human. But every time I recorded a video message, I felt uncomfortable in front of the camera. Rather than focus on what I had to share, I got distracted by the process of […]
How Our Talent Team Utilizes Video for Recruitment & More
The Loom team incorporates quick video messages into all aspects of talent acquisition through onboarding and day-to-day communication with current team members. Using Loom helps the Talent team stay human, especially as the company changes. Now that Loom has more than 100 team members and counting, it’s imperative we scale our team without ever losing the human […]
Explain, Document, & Review Code With Video Messages
As Loom’s CTO, I have witnessed how our video messaging tool greatly improves the asynchronous communication and performance of our team as well as those of the engineering leaders I speak with in sales and partnership meetings. I’d like to share some of these use cases with the hopes that it will help other Engineering teams run […]
How to Use Video Messaging For Internal Communications
As Loom’s VP of Marketing, I rely on video messages to inspire a growing Marketing team and drive the execution of goals –– all while working from the other side of the world. Loom provides the extra agility and clarity required to successfully execute campaigns, deliver creative feedback, manage a blog, and keep the entire […]
How We Leverage Video in Customer Support Strategy
Before I joined Loom, my experience with video communication was purely recreational. I had never recorded a video message to document workflows for my team, and taking time away from writing an email to a customer to record a video just didn’t seem productive. Plus, all the editing and uploading required was a process that […]
How to Utilize Asynchronous Video for Sales (with Examples)
As Loom’s Director of Sales, I’m constantly looking for workplace tools that help us reach more prospects, close more deals, and enhance our communication with customers. As I learn more and more about our customers, there are four key ways we see them using Loom for more effective communication as they build and take products to market; some […]
How This Founder Uses Video Messages To Run a Company
As a Co-founder and the CEO of Loom, I often get asked how we leverage video messaging as a tool on our own teams. As we’ve grown to 100 teammates and counting, video messages improve our workplace communication and performance across the company. Ultimately, asynchronous communication has enabled our teammates — all over the world — to stay connected […]
How to Leverage Video Messages in Customer Success
There’s one thing that every Customer Success professional is looking for: more time. More time means more opportunities to help customers and grow our relationships with them. There’s always great work to be done, and we’ll never run out of it. So the question is, with so many opportunities to grow our portfolio accounts and […]
It’s Time to Celebrate: Forge turns one
Time flies when you’re having fun, which is why we can hardly believe it was one year ago that the Forge platform officially launched to the public. Since then, our team has worked hard on our product roadmap, releasing new features and always keeping the needs of our community at the front of our minds. […]
