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What is AI automation? And how your business can use it

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Automation used to be the best way to do that. Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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Visual workflows: The ultimate guide, with examples and tools

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My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. Visual workflows, on the other hand, use diagrams, standardized symbols, colors, and flow lines. Using a visual map to define roles and responsibilities, similar to a RACI chart , eliminates confusion. Before the next Ice Age?

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The 9 best accounts payable software in 2025

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How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Obsidian vs. Notion: Which is best? [2025]

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Its versatile interface lets me quickly organize and find it all in a variety of formats, including interactive tables and Kanban boards. As opposed to Notion's "blocks," Obsidian uses Markdown , a lightweight formatting language, but you don't have to learn it to customize your text.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.