{"id":80402,"date":"2015-04-14T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=80402"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:14:21","slug":"top-tools-for-business-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-tools-for-business-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s good to talk: top tools for business communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have to work (well, most of us), and we all have to communicate with our colleagues (not always a good thing). But today\u2019s office environment is a very different beast compared to that of even ten years ago. With flexible, home-based working on the rise, as well as the need to better communicate with colleagues across the globe, we need tools to be able to productively work together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We often use a number of fragmented (and not entirely secure or business-friendly platforms) to fulfill these different needs. But a plethora of corporate communication tools have been developed that aim to boost efficiency, improve the way we (virtually) talk to each other, and make life easier. Here are a few that we think will help improve your workplace communication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Slack<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Slack is a platform for team communication, which pulls all internal conversations and communication into one, searchable place. This gives you a view into conversations between your co-workers, as well as immediate access to bugs, customer service tickets, and document sharing.<\/p>\n

According to a Slack spokesperson: \u201cEveryone needs to have visibility into what everyone else is working on to make things more efficient. Teams transition to Slack from a highly fragmented collection of tools<\/strong> they’ve cobbled together to build their own communication fabric: email, IM, Skype, SMS\/iMessage, enterprise social tools, intranets, project management software, etc. Pulling all of those disjointed conversations into a single, organized, and searchable view radically increases transparency across teams. This ambient awareness means there’s less of a need for time-consuming stand up meetings, status reports, etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cSlack\u2019s channel format allows you to quickly go from asynchronous to synchronous communication. When it matters, the real-time response cannot be undervalued, but Slack’s highly customizable notifications allow you to jump in and out when you’re needed. The centralized and searchable archive of messages <\/strong>is something that’s available not just to people on the team today, but the ones who start next week or next month or next year. Onboarding (new employee integration) ramp up times are dramatically reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glip <\/a><\/h3>\n

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Glip is a business messaging platform <\/strong>with built-in productivity tools. It starts with real-time chat from your desktop, tablet or mobile phone, and builds business tools such as shared calendars, distributed task and project management, video conferencing, and file sharing, into this stream.<\/p>\n

Peter Pezaris, founder and CEO at Glip, explains the benefits: \u201cBy embedding the productivity tools in the stream, you\u2019ll not only get things done more quickly and efficiently, because it\u2019s so easy to transition from conversation to creation, you\u2019ll start tracking all of the tasks that are probably slipping through the cracks<\/strong> today. We like to say that Glip is so easy, you\u2019ll actually use it. In addition, because things like tasks, meetings and files are native first-class objects in Glip, powerful interactions become not only possible but effortless. Attach an agenda to a meeting invite; associate a set of tasks to an image to request changes; or @mention a person, a team, a file, a task or any other object to create associations between units of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also recently launched Glip 2<\/strong>, which Pezaris says come with speed, stability and usability improvements, along with some often-requested features such as recurring tasks, project templates, advanced keyboard shortcuts, and an all-new task management application.<\/p>\n

Flowdock<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Flowdock is a chat tool for teams, which integrates with productivity apps to not only bring visibility into discussions, but work activity as well. Some of the unique features that this program offers include:<\/p>\n