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11 Bad Work Habits and How to Fix Them
Bad work habits are leaden anchors, dragging down productivity and stopping your career’s forward momentum. Luckily, you’re the captain of this ship. You have the power to cut loose your bad habits, straighten course, and progress in your professional journey. Now, I won’t lie. Letting go of your bad habits is hard work. It’s an […]
Master The Art of Storytelling [With Video]
As her colleagues anxiously watched from their cubicles, Lisa walked slowly toward the CEO’s room with a pile of documents her sweaty palms could barely hold. She stopped for a moment as she approached the room, took a deep breath, and nervously smiled at the CEO’s secretary waiting to take her inside. Through the glass […]
How to Deliver Constructive Feedback at Work (With Examples)
There’s a fine line between thoughtless criticism and constructive feedback. But their impact on the work environment couldn’t be more different. It’s easy to criticize. After all, we’re wired to look for the negatives in things. But giving voice to those negatives with little concern for how they impact someone else’s performance or feelings tends […]
You Can Now Stitch Looms Together: Launching our No. 1 requested feature
Introducing video stitching in Loom—the latest editing tool designed to help people collaborate with their teams and create more powerful videos at work.
Just-in-Time Transformation to Deliver Quality, Cut Cost, and Spread Joy
We apply just-in-time transformations to keep our media stack lean and flexible. This helps us increase efficiency, lower storage costs, and spread joy.
How to determine if ‘that meeting’ is really necessary
Are all meetings equally necessary (or even the most effective) for meaningful collaboration?
First Months as a Remote Worker: Tips for Success
Starting a new remote job? Here are some key tips for your first few months!
How Dabadu’s Customer Success Team Uses Loom
As a CSM (Customer Success Manager) for Dabadu Inc, one of my responsibilities is to ensure that our software end-users understand how to use our product and have a seamless experience with Dabadu’s XRM (X-treme CRM). To circumvent the need for more one-on-one training, my colleagues and I have spent many hours building our support […]
Creating a Teacher Appreciation Video: Step-by-Step Guide
Looking for special ways to celebrate teacher appreciation week? While a thank you note to a teacher from a student is a heartfelt gesture, the newest way to show appreciation is via video. With that in mind, we’ve created this list of teacher appreciation video ideas to spark your imagination. As a parent, you have […]
How To Make a Video on YouTube
Video content is taking off. It’s an engaging content medium perfectly optimized for on-the-go viewing. And, YouTube is the world’s leading video platform, with 1.7 billion unique monthly visitors, which is why leveraging this platform should be part of every marketing strategy. Yet in 2022, it’s no longer enough to make YouTube videos, publish them, […]
New Survey Data: Why communication overload derails productivity (and how to fix it)
Loom’s 2023 survey of 1,500 U.S. office workers uncovered new and surprising insights into how people communicate, miscommunicate, and connect at work. The resulting report, “Mind the Communication Gap,” shows growing communication redundancies among office workers, underscoring a massive opportunity for business leaders to increase productivity, morale, and resource efficiency with effective communication tools.
How to Use Async to Shorten Sync Times and Accelerate Collaboration
When, where, and how can teams take advantage of async tools in the right way to accelerate collaboration, improve work, and shorten sync times?
Four Keys to Communication on Distributed Teams
The old adage “the work speaks for itself” isn’t as apt as it once was. Odds are you will have to speak for your work, provide feedback for someone else’s work, and decide what you should work on as a team. To do that, you need to be able to communicate clearly and efficiently. Here are four pillars of effective communication that you can use to make a bigger impact at work.
Best Practices for Providing Feedback via Loom
Async video can be such a powerful medium for delivering feedback at work. Using tools like Loom, you can preserve the nuanced details—like facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language—that all have a major impact on the way your message is received and interpreted.
5 Ways I Learned to Record Better Looms By Watching Myself for Four Months
As a professional communicator, I’d love to say that I’m churning out breezy, articulated one-take Looms on the reg. Far from it. But in four months at Loom, I have learned a lot about how I can change my own behavior in small ways to create far more effective looms and, ultimately, communicate better with my team.