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Work From Home Statistics & Trends In 2022
From foraging for plants and animals for food close to the dwelling facilities to working from home to save gasoline during...
Chang Chen
January 11, 2022
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Otter's New Languages: French and Spanish! 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Richard Tasker
October 23, 2024
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Productivity Hacks
7 Meeting Tips for a More Inclusive Work Culture
As workplaces have evolved in recent years, one of the most welcome changes is the shift towards building more inclusive cultures that ensure...
Chang Chen
January 7, 2022
Productivity Hacks
10 New Year's Resolutions for Productivity Improvement in 2022
Although it may seem hard to believe, yet another year has gone by, and a new one has arrived. As we exit the holiday season, there’s one more...
Chang Chen
December 29, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Using a Voice Recorder to Create Custom Keepsake Gifts This Holiday Season
The holidays are always an opportunity to create long-lasting memories. Between gift-giving, feasts with family, vacations, and other sources...
Chang Chen
December 24, 2021
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Best Productivity Planners: 11 Great Options for 2022
With the New Year rolling in and resolutions top-of-mind, people all over the world are looking for ways to increase their productivity in 2022...
Chang Chen
December 23, 2021
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Note Taking Tips and To-Do Lists: How to Keep On Track This Holiday Season
For most of us, the holidays are filled with equal parts stress and magic. In the midst of all the proverbial holiday cheer is the frantic rush to...
Chang Chen
December 21, 2021
Productivity Hacks
4 Note Taking Strategies for Remote Students
The past year’s pandemic has been hard on students across the globe. With many elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and...
Chang Chen
December 17, 2021
Productivity Hacks
The 4 Best Digital Note Taking Strategies for Busy Professionals
Note-taking is one of those things that can fall to the wayside as we get older. As students, note-taking is always top-of-mind...
Chang Chen
December 15, 2021
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What Is Remote Communication: The Ultimate 2021 Guide
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way organizations operate. But some of these changes were a long time coming...
Chang Chen
December 7, 2021
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The 10 Best Productivity Apps To Crush Your 2022 Goals
Every year, hundreds of new productivity apps hit the market, promising to make your personal and professional life easier, simpler, and more...
Chang Chen
December 3, 2021
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The 5 Best Note Taking Apps of 2021
Taking notes using virtual software has become a way of life for the vast majority of people. Breaking out the pen and paper simply does...
Chang Chen
November 23, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Online Meeting Etiquette Mistakes You Might Not Know You're Making
Over the past year and a half, online meetings have become the norm. Yet, alongside this shift has come a whole slew of new social rules...
Chang Chen
November 11, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How to Write a Great Board Meeting Agenda
Board meetings are important events that can help decision-makers understand where their company stands, as well as shape how it will move forward...
Chang Chen
November 3, 2021
Productivity Hacks
9 Virtual Team Building Activities to Connect Your Distributed Team
Team building may seem more complex in the age of remote workplaces, but it’s just a change of environment; human nature remains the same. This...
Chang Chen
November 1, 2021
Productivity Hacks
8 Ways Otter Makes You a Better Employee
The past year and a half of the COVD-19 pandemic has ushered in nothing short of a paradigm shift for modern work — and it’s not going away any...
Chang Chen
October 14, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How to Use Digital Tools to Help Teams Free Up Space for Mental Health
Over the past few years, mental health has taken center stage as one of the most pressing concerns facing modern workplaces. And although...
Chang Chen
October 12, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Why It's Important to Rethink How to Manage your Energy — and Your Meetings
Summer is winding down, and for most of us, that means the end of vacations and a refocus on work. This year, we’re in an environment that...
Darius Contractor
October 6, 2021
Productivity Hacks
5 Best Automatic Transcription Tools
Thanks to the improvements of automated tech in the last 10 years, tasks like manual transcription seem antiquated and obsolete. Not only are they...
Chang Chen
September 28, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Tools for Recording & Transcribing Meetings
For decades, human transcription has been the norm. In almost every meeting and conference room, there used to be someone for note-taking...
Chang Chen
September 23, 2021
Product Update
Otter® Chrome Extension makes it easier than ever to OtterPilot™ Your Virtual Meetings with AI
With the Otter Chrome Extension, users can easily add OtterPilot™ to their meetings on Zoom and Google Meet. Otter will join the meeting and use AI to automatically record audio, write notes, capture slides, and share the notes with all the attendees. After the meeting, it generates an Automated Summary, making it easy for users to recall and share key points.
Simon Lau
September 23, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How to Record a Webinar
In a world connected by virtual meetings and long-distance communication, web conferencing is an important tool. Whether you want to...
Chang Chen
September 21, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How to Convert MP3 to Text
For nearly three decades, MP3 has remained the most commonly distributed audio format. MP3 files are audio files that are compressed...
Chang Chen
September 20, 2021
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How to Measure Productivity in Your Remote Workforce
The past few years have seen a massive shift toward remote work. Although the COVID-19 pandemic may have served as a catalyst for its recent...
Chang Chen
September 13, 2021
Productivity Hacks
25 Free Project Management Tools to Try Today
Every team has its own workflow and project needs. Some prefer using email inboxes to manage projects. Others like visual-first solutions, such as...
Chang Chen
September 7, 2021
Product Update
Put Your Google Meet Meetings on OtterPilot™
OtterPilot integrates with your calendar so it can automatically join, record, transcribe, share meeting notes for you even when you can’t be there.
Simon Lau
August 25, 2021
Product Update
Put Your Microsoft Teams Meetings on OtterPilot
OtterPilot is an AI meeting assistant that records audio, writes notes, automatically captures slides, and generates summaries.
Simon Lau
August 25, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Ethical Business Strategist — Lucie Chiochetti
When done right, meetings can be the gateway to innovation and progress. Therefore, recording the proceedings of these events is just as important...
Josh Gould
August 20, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Product Manager — Megan Huynh
Since the onset of the global pandemic, there has been a massive shift in the way businesses conduct their operations. As remote working...
Josh Gould
August 13, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How to Convert Wav to Text
WAV files are the king of audio. They are lossless files that keep a huge amount of data within. This means that they are prime candidates for...
Chang Chen
July 31, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Best Way to Transcribe Video To Text
It is no longer news that including videos in your content marketing approach spikes engagement. There’s a lot of talk about how to create...
Chang Chen
July 31, 2021
Productivity Hacks
How To Record A Google Meet Call
If you often use Google Meet, it might be a good idea to record your conferences so you can still refer to them at a later date. Recording these...
Chang Chen
July 31, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Choosing the Best Audio to Text Converter
Taking notes during meetings can be difficult. It’s hard to keep up with the speed people talk, and it’s even harder to take notes and listen to what people are saying at the same time. You could go back through recordings ( if there is a recording ) but this.
Simon Lau
July 31, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Film Teacher — Adam Burns
The Coronavirus pandemic caused thousands of classes, seminars, and meetings to shift online. This has become a massive struggle for educators...
Josh Gould
July 30, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Nursing Student — Veronica Conley
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of schools being shut across the globe. As a result, education changed drastically, with e-learning...
Josh Gould
July 28, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured CEO — Joanne Brooks
In the pre-pandemic world, virtual meetings and online seminars were a rarity, usually conducted on an experimental basis only. But now, everyone...
Josh Gould
July 22, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured CEO & Board Advisor — James Routledge
Strategic leaders strive to cultivate an environment conducive to the growth of their employees. Meetings are a great way for them to gauge the...
Josh Gould
July 20, 2021
Product Update
Richard Ward on Joining Otter.ai
Best coffee date ever.It was late 2017 when I first met Sam and the founding team at Otter.ai. We were grabbing an afternoon drink at Sightglass...
Richard Ward
June 16, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Educator — Juliet Inyang
Hundreds of conferences were postponed, canceled, or shifted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has become a massive hassle...
Josh Gould
June 16, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur — Amy Modglin
The 2020 pandemic left everyone locked in their houses, isolated from one another. As the communication landscape rapidly shifted, people had to...
Josh Gould
June 14, 2021
Customer Stories
Featured Video Producer — Lucinda Emms
Conducting video interviews is no easy task. It takes journalistic skills and critical expertise to ask the right questions at the right time...
Simon Lau
June 9, 2021
Productivity Hacks
5 Ways to Maximize Productivity in a Video Meeting
We all spend a lot of time in meetings, so it’s crucial to make sure they’re as productive as possible. That’s why it’s important to prepare for...
Luke Leighfield
May 27, 2021
Product Update
Put Your Zoom Meetings on OtterPilot
OtterPilot is an AI meeting assistant that records audio, writes notes, automatically captures slides, and generates summaries.
Simon Lau
May 19, 2021
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Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur – Paulina Karpis
Otter became an essential part of brunchwork’s daily workflow after the pandemic hit. Before Covid 90% of their revenue came from in-person events...
Josh Gould
May 18, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Distance Learning Statistics and Growth of Online Education in 2021
The distance learning statistics below signaled the massive growth of the distance learning market, the challenges of remote education, and...
Chang Chen
March 4, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Working on Vacation: Here’s How to Stay Productive
“Vacation” and “work” are not two words that people generally like to see together, and we would most definitely recommend against...
Chang Chen
March 1, 2021
Productivity Hacks
Top 11 Productivity Hacks for 2021 (Hybrid or Remote)
As many business owners and employees are learning, working remotely comes with its own set of challenges. Unfortunately, finding productivity...
Chang Chen
February 2, 2021
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5 Ground Rules of Virtual Meeting Etiquette
When starting a Zoom meeting with a new group of teammates, coworkers, or clients, it can feel a little strange to know the right things to do or...
Chang Chen
January 19, 2021
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Shocking Meeting Statistics In 2021 That Will Take You By Surprise
Meetings are part of our professional lives – no work schedule is complete without them. But that doesn’t mean all meetings are productive...
Chang Chen
December 24, 2020
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16 Remote Working Tools for Better Collaboration, Communication, and Organization
How can you ensure that your team is as effective as possible while working remotely? Luckily, there are remote working tools that...
Chang Chen
December 21, 2020
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Remote Team Communication: 5 Key Tips and Best Practices
Remote team communication is fast becoming a necessary choice for businesses seeking to thrive outside of the traditional office environment...
Chang Chen
December 15, 2020
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