Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

May 2020

Why project management software is key to online collaboration

Baseball legend Babe Ruth knew a lot about collaboration. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success,” Ruth explained. “You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” While the Great Bambino was referring to the sport that made him famous, this is also true for teams in the workplace. Collaboration is critical to success.

Transform your remote team: The power of capturing knowledge in meetings

If there was one thing you could improve on your team, what would it be? Most common answers to this question aren’t around ability or leadership. Instead, they tend to focus on a lack of alignment and information. These were difficult areas to get right before the shift to remote work and have only gotten more challenging since. We have experimented with all sorts of approaches for keeping our team aligned and informed at Hugo.

Build a business case for your management to invest in field service management software

As a manager handling a team of employees who go on-site and resolve customer issues related to your product/service, buying field service management (FSM) software to help you manage the workload of your team is critical—especially as your business scales and the team grows. However, such a purchase decision will often require management buy-in. The management needs to completely understand the ROI associated with such a product.

Wire Tracks Turbo-charged Growth with Security at the Forefront

As the need for secure and effective collaboration tools rises globally, Wire, the most secure collaboration platform, tracks turbo-charged growth in Q1 2020, driving upward trajectory into Q2. Leading with security as the key building block of its flexible collaboration platform, Wire added 200 new enterprise customers in April alone, reaching a total of over 1,200 paying enterprise customers as of its calendar first quarter.

How Gluu Managed To Win Large Enterprise Customers With Rocket.Chat

Managing users and passwords for different applications can be a real challenge. especially if you are an enterprise admin. The stakes are high–get it wrong and hackers may compromise your organization. That’s why Gluu has been helping different organizations to centralize digital authentication since 2009. The Gluu Server is the most comprehensive open-source identity platform on the market.

Overcoming video conference fatigue: 7 tips from our customers

At the beginning of our shift to remote work, Asana—like many companies—encouraged video conferencing as a way to connect with teammates. And while connecting over video has a lot of advantages, prolonged remote work is also bringing to light the fatigue associated with spending large amounts of time on video calls.

ClearHub offers to help businesses with Atlassian contractors, free of charge

At a time when businesses need all the help they can get, ClearHub is offering 10 businesses 4 hours with a top Atlassian contractor free of charge. The offer, which is running on a first come first served basis, will allow 10 businesses that rely on the Atlassian range of tools, the benefit of an expert to iron out any issues they might be having in using or administrating Jira or Confluence, or to help them with hands on work on certain projects.

When it Comes to Digital Transformation and Remote Work Enablement: Adapt or Perish

As we try to assess the impact of the pandemic, our thinking inevitably revolves around how this epidemiological crisis will affect the work of each of us, but also what consequences it will have on the professional scene as a whole. This year, the world faced one of the worst public health crises, disrupting all aspects of our lives. So, what are the implications for the business world? What experiences and possibly lessons can we learn from this pandemic?

We use self service to decrease ticket volume, and you can too

The Customer Advocacy team at Zendesk noticed a spike in ticket volume in the summer of 2019. There’s no way we could have known that less than a year later we’d be in the midst of a global pandemic that has resulted in a surge in ticket volumes across a wide range of industries. As the situation continues to unfold, self service is emerging as a practical solution for customers and businesses alike.

11 Experts Share Their Tips on How to Adapt to Working From Home

If you are working from home for the first time, you may have needed some time to figure out what works best for you. However, when you’re asked to do this for the very first time in a limited timeframe, what do you do then? You turn to someone who has done this before, made mistakes and learned from them, and knows the best practices like the back of their hands.

Part 2: How to Better Understand Your Customers and Become Their Champions

In Part 1 of our two-part series, we discussed some important steps for better understanding your customers. Having a happy customer is one thing, but how do you go about creating a relationship with a customer where you both feel like each other’s champion?

Enabling the Remote Workplace with M-Files: Antti Nivala, M-Files Founder

The world changed in 2020. Companies face a new reality where work is done from kitchen tables, spare bedrooms and home offices. Remote work went from a nice perk to a mandatory directive. Future-proof your business by enabling secure access to documents and information while minimizing risk with M-Files. M-Files ensures the efficiency and productivity of your team, no matter where they are - their home, the hotel, the office, the airport, a coffee shop... anywhere.

Enabling the Remote Workplace with M-Files: Maria Carballosa, CMO

The world changed in 2020. Companies face a new reality where work is done from kitchen tables, spare bedrooms and home offices. Remote work went from a nice perk to a mandatory directive. Future-proof your business by enabling secure access to documents and information while minimizing risk with M-Files. M-Files ensures the efficiency and productivity of your team, no matter where they are - their home, the hotel, the office, the airport, a coffee shop... anywhere.

The New Normal of Remote Work: Maria Carballosa, M-Files CMO

The world changed in 2020. Companies face a new reality where work is done from kitchen tables, spare bedrooms and home offices. Remote work went from a nice perk to a mandatory directive. Future-proof your business by enabling secure access to documents and information while minimizing risk with M-Files. M-Files ensures the efficiency and productivity of your team, no matter where they are - their home, the hotel, the office, the airport, a coffee shop... anywhere.

Enabling the Remote Workplace with M-Files: Roger Morin

The world changed in 2020. Companies face a new reality where work is done from kitchen tables, spare bedrooms and home offices. Remote work went from a nice perk to a mandatory directive. Future-proof your business by enabling secure access to documents and information while minimizing risk with M-Files. M-Files ensures the efficiency and productivity of your team, no matter where they are - their home, the hotel, the office, the airport, a coffee shop... anywhere.

Explore Miroverse, the new Community Templates Gallery

Every day, Miro users are creating and collaborating in ways we’d never dreamed up. It’s only by seeing all these projects in the wild we get a glimpse into the possibilities. And what we’ve seen so far is amazing. Many people have already been sharing their boards on social media and in the Miro online community, but we wanted to find a way to bring all of these incredible examples together in a dedicated place that’s useful and actionable for everyone who uses Miro.

Zoom vs Skype: Which Video Chat App is Better for Your Team?

Remote work has become the norm. However, the need for meetings and discussion of working issues has not disappeared. Therefore, an important question arose: which program is better. The leaders are Skype and Zoom. I compared them by key settings and found a lot of useful things. By the way, the videoconferencing market is growing. According to studies, its volume will exceed $20 billion by 2024.

What is a mobile help desk?

Hiring skilled customer service agents is the most important part of providing an exceptional customer service experience. But once you have the right people, in order for them to realize their potential, you need to equip them with the right tools. Now that 96% of people use cell phones, part of supplying agents with what they need is giving them a way to do their job from a mobile device.

Answer Bot is here to help: Better comprehension, more languages, less effort

Some have been slow to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as part of their customer service strategy, but as organizations face resource and staffing constraints due to the pandemic, automation is not just nice to have—it can really help. Customers still need support, and AI-powered tools like Answer Bot, our self-service bot, can help meet the demand without requiring hands-on help from an agent.

Choosing the right types of customer service for your business

Happy customers are key to a successful business. They are also your biggest marketing strategy and greatest promoter. But at the same time, if a dissatisfied customer vents about your company to other people, it will have a huge negative impact on your business. With customer support constantly evolving, choosing the right type of customer service for your business might seem challenging.

The future of workplace messaging

Recently, a colleague of mine joked that she manages a marketing team of three: Claire, Mark, and Sally. The punchline is that she’s referring to Clearbit, Marketo, and Salesforce. She felt that way because they each have their own role with unique insights and jobs, and her team shares information with everyone else the same way she does through chat.

Customer Engagement: How To Improve It Today (incl. Strategies, Ideas & Examples)

When approaching customers, you want to become more than just another company. You want your customers to get to know your brand, find out what it represents, and discover the ways it can improve their lives. You want them to create a relationship with your brand, look for it when they need it, and help others connect with it. This process is called customer engagement. But why is customer engagement so important? And how can you engage your customers today?

The full overview: Roadmaps in Jira Software

Roadmaps are increasingly a core part of Jira Software’s promise to help you plan, track, release and report on your work. During this webinar we’ll walk through our new roadmaps offerings, including the roadmap in Jira Software classic projects (coming soon) as well as Advanced Roadmaps in Jira Software Premium (available now). We’ll demo how these tools can be helpful in both team-level and organization-level planning. We’ll also share our vision for how these features will evolve in the coming year.

Visibility and Control: The Cornerstones of Information Management and Security

Businesses have woken up to the reality of information access and management in a remote work situation. There are three immutable factors for remote work: So, what can companies do to manage information effectively in a remote work environment? Organizations must make critical information easy to find when needed.

Mattermost as a communication gateway

The Mattermost platform is a powerful messaging tool that enables secure team collaboration. Rather than creating unique Mattermost plugins for each tool, Cognitio created a custom SMTP mail intercept capability that leverages AWS Lambda functionality and custom code to create integrations for a number of third-party applications.

Part 1: How to Better Understand Your Customers and Become Their Champions

Creating strong relationships with your customers isn’t something that happens overnight. And, every customer has a unique personality and perspective on business relationships. Ever been around a group of young pups? They may have the same parents and even look alike (i.e. adorable with tiny floppy ears) but talk about some unique personalities! It takes time and effort to understand individual pups and businesses alike, but once you do the end result is very rewarding.

Hiring A Customer Experience Specialist: Everything You Need To Know

Regardless of the type of business, every product and service needs to provide a great customer experience. That’s why the need for great customer experience specialists has been on the rise. The better the customer experience, the better your reputation, sales, and revenue will be. But what does a customer experience specialist do? And how can you hire the best ones?

The #1 Guide to Telecommuting your Customer Support Efficiently

Telecommuting or remote working is no longer only a strategy to scale up your customer service or globally distributing your support teams. It’s a growing necessity that is more about future-proofing your customer service against business-related uncertainties. Apart from being a developing global necessity, the need for telecommuting also entails the preferences of workers.

5 of the best knowledge management examples

Studies of customer feedback already tell us that the majority of customers prefer to solve their problems on their own over contacting a support agent. It makes sense—self-service puts the customer in the driver’s seat, empowering them to be autonomous and find the right answers with speed. But self-service is also better for businesses. It enables them to do more with less and frees their support teams’ time up for higher-stakes issues that require a human touch.

Building confidence and gaining experience with good open source projects

This year, I got a unique opportunity to call in at Mattercon 2020 and give a talk about my experience working on Mattermost and open source software (OSS) in general. I talked about how OSS helped me grow as a self-taught developer and how working on issues from Mattermost’s repos helped me gain experience and confidence in software development. In this article, I will highlight some of the things I talked about and also throw in a few pointers related to working on OSS.

Stop Fighting Fires: How to Prioritize When Everything is High Priority

One of the most common frustrations we hear from team leaders who don’t have robust project management practices in place is a feeling of constant firefighting, leaving them unable to complete projects on time or within budget. In fact, in a recent PWC poll, only 2.5% of companies successfully completed all of their projects. Firefighting is a natural human response to a chaotic workload as a means of “getting more done”.

Part 2: B2B Customer Support: Cost Center or Profit Center?

Did you miss Part 1 of this series? It was quite a show! Luckily, you can still go back and read it! We’re looking at different B2B customer support channels from two distinctly opposite perspectives: cost center (support is a necessary evil of business) and profit center (support can hold its own in the revenue generation conversation). In Part 2 we are looking at two of the most modern support channels, self-service and visual support. And we’ve got a bonus at the end!

Rocket.Chat Is Moving Its Documentation To Gitbook

After careful consideration, Rocket.Chat is officially moving its documentation to GitBook. With this change, we expect to improve the rate of which we develop, fix, and maintain documentation by making sure everyone on the team can edit it easily. Previously, we used Jekyll for documentation purposes. However, as time passed, we faced more and more issues with Jekyll. Therefore, we’ve decided to move to Gitbook which provides a more user-friendly and collaborative product for everyone.

How Fintech startup Novo is using CX to disrupt a traditional industry

Fintech has been steadily rising over the past few years, and many ambitious startups are tapping into that growth with new and advanced financial products. Legacy financial institutions are now looking warily at their new competitors, as Fintech firms are approaching the old financial framework from a different angle that is more customer-centric. See how Fintech startup Novo, a mobile business bank account created with the modern entrepreneur and founder in mind, is disrupting the industry by leveraging customer experience at the forefront of its growth.

The Importance of Communication in Business

Business communication is a method of sharing information between staff, customers, outside companies, and investors. In fact, effective business communication is crucial for maintaining a successful business. There’s no way a business can function effectively without it. Incorporating steady and reliable communication methods with your workforce, suppliers, shareholders, and of course, your customers is essential.

Text support: get it right the first time

Smartphones have become a common part of everyday life. Pew research reports that 96% of people in the United States use cell phones. And with their ubiquity, text messaging has become one of the most common forms of communication in modern life. Recent research from Text Request found that 97% of smartphone users had texted in the past week. For businesses, that makes text messaging an important channel to include in your customer support strategy.

Call center 101: What makes a successful call center?

In today’s omnichannel world of live chat, social media, email, and more, it can be easy to overlook the critical role that phone support still plays for many customers. In fact, phone is still the most common way that customers prefer to contact customer service at a company, according to Benchmark data.

Zendesk is FedRAMP authorized

Zendesk takes security very seriously—just ask the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies that trust us with their data. We use a combination of enterprise-class security features and comprehensive audits of our applications, systems, and networks to ensure that your data is always protected, which means every customer can rest easy—our own included.

Introducing Automations for Field Service Management

Field technicians, as part of their service workflow, are required to execute certain repetitive tasks each day. These tasks improve information dissemination across teams, ensure that the documentation for every service request or task is up-to-date, and help visibility and coordination between helpdesk and field teams. These tasks are of paramount importance for your support and field teams to function smoothly.

Creating powerful automations with n8n and Mattermost

Tanay is the Head of Developer Relations at n8n. He has published books on WebVR, virtual assistants on Raspberry Pi, and FirefoxOS. He has been listed in the about:credits of the Firefox web browser for his contributions to the different open source projects of the Mozilla Foundation. I’ve been involved in the DevOps world for a while and yet I finished reading The Phoenix Project only recently. The book piqued my interest in how teams execute their incident response playbooks.

How To Use Skype For Business: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020)

Want to learn how to use Skype for Business? The current global pandemic has forced many businesses to go remote — but that comes with tons of communication challenges! Luckily, Microsoft’s Skype for Business is a popular video conferencing tool that can help you overcome that. But if you don’t know how to use it properly, your communication issues are only going to get worse. Don’t worry! This article is a step-by-step guide on how to use Skype for Business the right way.

OneDesk - Setting up Multiple Domains for Customer Organizations

Learn how you can add multiple domains for customer organizations in OneDesk so that customer record is automatically added to the specific organization. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

OneDesk - How to Make Adjustments to your Company Preferences

Learn how you can add your company name, logo, working hours and more through OneDesk Company Preferences. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

OneDesk - How to Make Changes to Bulk Items

Learn how to make modifications to multiple items in OneDesk OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

1-Stop Connections keeps ports functioning by embracing the customer experience

At any moment, there are more than 20 million containers at sea, transporting everything from raw materials like oil, steel, and wood, to consumer products like TVs, toys, and textiles. That makes operating ports complicated business, which is why companies like 1-Stop Connections, which provides SaaS solutions to keep those ports working efficiently, are so vital.

What's a BPO call center, what does it do?

Not every company has the staff, tools, and skills required to meet their customers’ expectations of call center service. For example, 51% of consumers expect a response in under five minutes when they call a company, according to The Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2020. But for a small eCommerce team, meeting this expectation may not always be possible. That’s where a BPO call center comes in.

30 Remote Work Software That You Wish You Knew about

Brands such as Google and Facebook have recently announced that they plan on working remotely for the foreseeable future, (or even forever in the case of Twitter). Whether your business is going to follow suit or not, there is one thing that has clearly stood out in the past few months of this new normal – your work-from-home experience is only as good as the tools you use to enable remote work.

Working Together, Remotely - Part II

In the first part of the “Working Together, Remotely” series, we shared stories of Scorers who have had to face quite a few changes while working from home. Today, we will take a closer look at how our People Operations Manager, Annika, and Customer Onboarding Expert, Austin, have adapted and what has changed for them. The current situation continues to change the business landscape as we know it.

Part 1: B2B Customer Support: Cost Center or Profit Center?

There are two types of people in the world. The first type thinks B2B customer support is a cost center, or a necessary expense for running a business. After all, having a support team is required for your product, and it’s just something you need to have. The second type thinks B2B customer support is a profit center. Support may be part of a successful business, but that’s because they are a part of a greater revenue generating team.

How a Digital Solutions Retailer Uses OneDesk Project Management Feature

There was once a time when marketing was mostly about handing out flyers and placing radio adverts. Marketing has come a long way since then, and even digital marketing has been subject to evolution. Innovative marketing concepts like data-driven and personalized marketing are but few of the digital marketing trends explored by businesses and marketing agencies recently. With larger players now in the market, contemporary digital marketing trends are more in line with interactive marketing and AI.

OneDesk - Routing Actions

Learn how to set up your Workflow Automations to automate specific actions in OneDesk and eliminate repetitive, manual work for your support agents. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

OneDesk - Domains

Learn how you can add multiple domains for your customer organizations in OneDesk OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

OneDesk - Summary Cards

Learn how you can view your users' and customers' summary cards to access their full profiles or start a conversation. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

OneDesk - User and Teams

Learn how you can organize your users into specific teams in OneDesk OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

6 call center training tips for building an exceptional team of agents

More often than not, shoppers’ impressions of companies are based on interactions with support agents. After all, customers rarely interact directly with businesses outside of support calls—especially if the company is online-based. Your agents need the proper training and tools to handle those calls in a way that makes the customer feel heard and appreciated. Below are six call center training tips to ensure your agents can deliver a positive, helpful customer experience.

How to calculate your customer retention rate

Loyal customers are the bedrock of any booming business. After all, loyal customers are repeat customers; they’re generally the most likely to promote a business on social media; they tend to report the highest levels of customer satisfaction; they have the lowest churn rate; and they can boost a company’s net promoter score. Customer retention is critical. But keeping customers happy and loyal for the long haul is easier said than done.

Nifty Tutorial: Task Management

Bring order to your team’s workflow with Nifty Tasks! Tasks can be as simple as a do-item, or a fully rigged out journeys with a description, a due date assigned subtasks, and attached files & docs. Additionally, tasks have a collaborative comment section to consolidate feedback. If you’d like to keep this task private from project Guests, Members, or Admins, simply hit the Hide Task button! And don’t forget to tie a task to a Milestone to automate milestone progress tracking and the impact on greater project objectives!

The keys to excellent internal help desk management

Businesses are laser-focused on customer experience and customer service today. And as work transitions from in-person to remote, customers are heavily relying on digital channels for help. This is no different for your employees — they need digital internal help desk solutions now more than ever. Companies are leaning even more heavily on technology to keep their customers and employees connected while the world is in survival mode.

Enabling the Remote Workplace with M-Files: Valeo Financial Advisors

The world changed in 2020. Companies face a new reality where work is done from kitchen tables, spare bedrooms and home offices. Remote work went from a nice perk to a mandatory directive. Future-proof your business by enabling secure access to documents and information while minimizing risk with M-Files. M-Files ensures the efficiency and productivity of your team, no matter where they are - their home, the hotel, the office, the airport, a coffee shop... anywhere.

Introducing Status for remote work

When you’re working remotely, keeping your stakeholders informed on the progress of your work becomes even more important to keep teams in sync and projects moving forward. Workers use an average of 10 different tools throughout the day, and any one of them might contain the information you need for your weekly status update. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new Status feature.

How to navigate the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on customer support

Forget what you think you know about customer support, for now. In just a few short months, COVID-19 has transformed the way businesses and customers interact. As customers, we’ve heard from just about every company we’ve ever done business with. Remember that hair salon you went to in college? How about that time you bought dad new grill equipment from an online supplier? One after another, subject lines read like concerned emails from friends.

Support for ESR 5.9 has ended: Upgrade to ESR 5.19 for improved security, performance, mobile app compatibility, and user experience

As of April 15, 2020, Mattermost Extended Support Release (ESR) version 5.9 is no longer supported. If any of your servers are not on ESR 5.19 or later, we highly recommend that you upgrade immediately. With our simple upgrade steps, it takes only a few minutes. Mattermost adopts a monthly tick-tock release cycle, with a new version shipping on the 16th of each month.

How to Pick the Right Team Messaging Platform

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that team messaging platforms are widely popular among employees. Data shows that 71% of employees in the tech industry and 62% of the workforce in international companies rely on these tools. They’re simply more efficient than email; you get instant responses, have an easier time staying productive, and can better foster relationships (the foundation of great collaboration).

A Step-by-Step Guide on How To Use Microsoft Teams

As many teams are now working remotely due to COVID-19, they’ve been forced to use virtual communication tools like Microsoft Teams to collaborate effectively! But how do you go about using Microsoft Teams? After all, while Microsoft Teams is an effective tool, it can be confusing! To help you get a quick start, this article is a step-by-step guide on how to use Microsoft Teams for your video conferencing and communication needs.

Why Tools Used to Measure Customer Satisfaction are Important

Does your company currently measure customer satisfaction? If so, how accurate and time consuming are your measurements? With so many different touchpoints factoring into customer satisfaction, from ticket response time to NPS (Net Promoter Score) and everything in between, getting actionable information in a timely way can be a challenge. This doesn’t mean you should take the easy way out when it comes to measuring customer satisfaction.

How Do You Solve a $6 Trillion Problem?

Because the global economy has transitioned from manufacturing to one based in knowledge, cyberattacks are now the fastest-growing crime in the world and are expected to cost businesses and governments $6 trillion a year by 2021. Today, a company’s most valuable assets are its intellectual property and proprietary data.

Free task management - Deadline view and Calendar view | Bitrix24 Tasks

The deadline is the most important parameter of a task. Therefore, you need to be careful when specifying tasks deadlines to increase the effectiveness of the work on tasks. There are two ways to work effectively with task deadlines: use Deadline or Calendar view.

How to continue building inclusive communities when you're remote

The recent shift to remote work and physical distancing has forced many organizations, including Asana, to rethink how they connect and communicate as a distributed team. Building inclusive communities must be a part of that shift. Being fully remote—compounded by living through a global pandemic—makes it even more critical to be intentional about creating an inclusive community.

6 essential skills for successful change management

Managing change isn’t just a normal part of business, it’s a normal part of life. Yet learning how to manage change well doesn’t come naturally, it’s a skill that has to be developed and honed. That’s especially true for organizational change, which often involves a lot of moving parts, including different people, systems, technologies, and goals. For your desired changes to take root, your organization needs people that possess change management skills.

9 Best Slack Alternatives for Remote Work

Working remotely has become the new normal in light of the ongoing pandemic. That being said, some people have found themselves struggling to make the transition. Many have already fallen victim to burnout due to the shift in work environments. However, certain software can make collaboration a lot easier. Communication apps like Slack help you stay in touch with your coworkers even when you’re all working from home. Still, not everyone will be compatible with it.

Rocket.Chat Earns Highest-ever Ranking On Capterra's Top 20 Remote Work & Livechat Software!

Last week, the leading software review platform Capterra announced that Rocket.Chat has been named Top 20 in these two categories: Top 5 Most Popular Live Chat Softwares, Top 20 Most Popular Remote Work Softwares. Capterra is a free online service that helps organizations find the best tech solutions to succeed. We are humbled to see our efforts recognized by such a well-known authority for tech platforms!

DevOps Collaboration for Remote Teams

As many teams scramble to adopt remote work, many DevOps teams are turning to messaging and integrated workflows to collaborate effectively. But how can remote teams use messaging effectively? How can you use messaging in conjunction with other collaboration tools? We’ll show you how you can use a collaboration platform like Mattermost to make the most of popular tools like the Atlassian suite and improve the workflow of your remote teams. We’ll also talk about our experiences as a remote-first company and how our team moves quickly and stays in sync.

Providing virtual feedback like a pro: 3 tips from Eat Your Coffee

What began as a joke about how convenient it would be to eat coffee on the way to class became somewhat of a dorm room experiment that led to the creation of Eat Your Coffee. Since then, we’ve grown our team and EYC (Eat Your Coffee) has scaled tremendously. We also moved to being a 100% remote company a few years ago with the help of a handful of tools, including Asana.

8 strategies for designing a thriving knowledge base

Increasingly, customers are expressing their strong, independent selves by helping themselves and solving problems on their own. In fact, high performing customer experience teams are 76% more likely to offer self-service for just this reason, according to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends Report, 2020. However, simply offering a standard knowledge base portal isn’t enough—the design of your help center affects your customers’ experience with your brand.

Organizational change management: 8 proven models to help navigate change

With how fast industries move, technologies advance, and current events shift, organizational change is now a normal part of doing business. But change is rarely easy. And the bigger and more complex a business is, the more challenging it is to implement change effectively. Yet the ability to incorporate necessary changes into how you do business plays a direct role in long-term success.

The Beginner's Guide to Customer Service Responsibilities

Customer service is not as easy as you think it to be. Since customer service represents the face of your company to customers, your support team should be very careful when handling customers and customer issues. One wrong move and it can bring down the reputation of your company. Whether you’re considering a career in customer support or you are looking to hire a customer service representative, here is what you need to know.

Advanced Git with the Free University of Tbilisi

On Monday, March 16, 2020, I had the privilege to (virtually) join Shota Gvinepadze and his students at the Free University of Tbilisi and speak about “Advanced Git @ Mattermost” for a portion of their class time. The following are my speaking notes from the session, slightly modified from the original slides for this format. Keep in mind that the command line examples are illustrative of my workflow, and not meant to be run in isolation.

How To Use Zoom: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020)

Want to learn how to use Zoom? With teams across the world working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, video conferencing tools like Zoom have become extremely popular. However, if you’ve never used Zoom before, understanding it might be challenging! But don’t worry. This article is a step-by-step guide to help you get started with Zoom quickly.

Changing B2B Support Software Part 3: Making the Switch and Managing the Process

The final part in our three-part series on changing support software is all about the tactical aspects. In Part 1 and Part 2, we discussed how to identify if your company needs to switch and how to choose the right solution if you do. Now, it’s time to get into actually making the switch happen so you can enable a support team with happy agents that serve happy customers--complete with rainbows and unicorns!

How a Legacy Hardware Company Uses OneDesk for Project Management

The need for better and more specialized systems has been the major call for the fast-paced evolution of technology over the years. Newer hardware and software systems are constantly introduced. Hence, it is always a matter of time before older special-purpose systems are outdated and deprived of resources for support and maintenance.

The Risks of Shadow IT during Lockdown

In recent weeks, circumstances around the Covid-19 crisis have meant that companies have had to pivot quickly to remote working. The trouble is, many organizations didn’t have a plan in place for this change. It’s understandable that they’d want to turn to market-ready, widely available tools to collaborate quickly from anywhere, however, there’s a real danger of cobbling together your business collaboration stack using consumer-grade tools.

5 small businesses making smart pivots for a world gone offline

According to research by small business marketing platform, FiveStars, customer visits to local businesses in the U.S. and Canada dropped by 70 percent between March 8 and April 12. It doesn’t take a statistician to realize that losing that many customers in one month represents a serious blow. But not every mom and pop shop is collapsing.

Nifty Tutorial: Project Milestones

Plan, track, and automate your project's progress and key sprints with Nifty milestones. Creating Project Milestones at the outset of a project gives context to your project's tasks and provides clarity to your current progress. Since visualization is also important, you can use the Swimlane View which intersects milestones with task lists to get a birds-eye view and control over your milestones and tasks.

Slack vs Zoom : Who is Losing the Momentum?

Since the nationwide lockdowns in wake of COVID-19, there haven't been too many stocks that have been spared from the share market massacre. Since February, the broader markets have lost more than a quarter of their value. But for virtual collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack, the scenario is completely opposite. Zoom’s download has skyrocketed. Just take a look at Zoom stock chart and see how COVID-19 changed the game for Zoom video Stock. Zoom video stock has a strong RS line now.

How AI is Transforming the Way Customer Service Teams Work in the 2020s

AI was once a concept that belonged in the realm of science fiction. There was even a major Hollywood film with that exact two-letter title. It may have been novel then, but as we move into the 2020s, things are very different indeed. Artificial intelligence – a term used to describe a group of technologies – is having an immense impact on everyday life. AI is reshaping processes and activities in a wide range of settings.

8 Marketplace Apps to Help You Cope During These Unprecedented Times

The pandemic has begun showing signs of slowing down, and companies the world over are mulling resuming operations to business as usual. The need and demand for a strong, capable, and coordinated customer service team has never been greater. We’ve put together a list of apps that would help you and your team navigate the current situation and any future emergencies, without sacrificing customer experience and satisfaction. /p>

Making employees feel appreciated with the UMatter bot

In the middle of January 2020, I got a notification about the upcoming Mattermost hackathon that was being hosted on the HackerEarth platform. I checked out the hackathon page but I forgot about it the next day when I went to work. One morning, I was surfing the internet sipping my coffee and landed on a website that discussed why employee churn rate is high in organizations.

Changing B2B Support Software Part 2: Strategies for Evaluating Solutions

In Part 1 of our series on changing support software, we went through some questions to help you identify if now is the time to consider other options for your support technology. In Part 2, we discuss some key strategies for properly evaluating different support solutions. Let’s dive right into how companies should go about choosing their new support software with these 5 steps.

How to Build a Remote Security Mindset

Millions of employees are now working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, business is booming for cybercriminals: We’re seeing a recent and unprecedented surge in successful cyberattacks. Worse, the cost of those attacks is climbing exponentially and is expected to hit as much as $6 trillion annually by next year. To address the problem, executives must reexamine their assumptions about security and the systems they have relied upon in the past.

Employee-surveillance software is not welcome to integrate with Basecamp

We’ve been teaching people how to do remote work well for the better part of two decades. We wrote a whole book about the topic in 2013, called REMOTE: Office Not Required. Basecamp has been a remote company since day one, and our software is sold as an all-in-one toolkit for remote work. Yeah, we’re big on remote work! So now that COVID-19 has forced a lot of companies to move to remote work, it’s doubly important that we do our part to help those new to the practice settle in.

4 Ways to Conduct Proactive and Engaging Remote Sessions with Your Customers

In light of the sudden shift to remote working, we recently conducted a series of internal brainstorming workshops to strategize the best ways to conduct remote sessions with our customers. We compiled over 300 ideas from 3 continents. Here are our key findings, brought to you by M-Filers and Hanna Tahvonen.

Riot Web 1.6, RiotX Android 0.19 & Riot iOS 0.11 - E2E Encryption by Default & Cross-signing is here!!

Hi folks, We are incredibly excited to present the biggest change in Riot ever: as of the last 24 hours we are enabling end-to-end encryption by default for all new non-public conversations, together with a complete rework of Riot’s user experience around E2E encryption, powered by a whole new suite of encryption features in Matrix. We have released this simultaneously on Web, Desktop, iOS and RiotX Android! The things we needed to fix to turn on E2EE by default were...

Announcing new security and control features for remote collaboration

Millions around the world have had to switch nearly overnight to working remotely. But adopting remote work isn’t easy for every team. Deploying a messaging platform can be difficult for enterprises with high security, compliance, and control requirements.

Changing B2B Support Software Part 1: How Do You Know When to Switch?

Even in everyday life, people are bombarded with the concept of “change” and “switch.” Whether it’s driving by a billboard advertising a cool new car or seeing a phone company commercial on TV and wondering if you can get more data for less money, there’s always someone out there trying to paint a picture of a greener pasture. Companies want you to switch, but how do you know when it’s a good idea?

22 Powerful Communication Quotes to Deliver Better Messages

It doesn’t matter if you’re talking to your partner, your children, or your colleagues – proper communication is essential. It can also be difficult to get right. The ability to convey your message can positively impact many areas of your life for the better but it takes practice. This collection of communication quotes will help you gain perspective, improve team collaboration, and make it easier to communicate well.

Tips, tricks, and tools for working remotely

In recent weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of people around the world to suddenly work from home. For many, remote work had been an occasional experience; for others, it was altogether unfamiliar. Now, working from home is the “new normal” for many of us, at least for the short-term. If you are new to remote working, it can feel challenging to adjust as you find a new rhythm for connecting with others and managing the workday.

Top 6 Virtual Team Communication Tools (Features, Pricing)

Teams across the world have switched to remote work in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when you’re used to working in the same office, virtual communication can seem impossible. If you’re in the same boat, here’s some good news: it isn’t. Virtual teams have been collaborating efficiently for decades — and there’s one thing they all have in common. They all use virtual team communication tools.

How a Tech Support Company Uses OneDesk to Track Sales and Incoming Ticket Requests

Generally, being a tech company is about anticipating the client’s needs and requirements while staying abreast of trends in the information technology industry to achieve and sustain technological competence. Tech Support companies provide the technical expertise needed to keep systems running both for smaller and larger organizations. Most startup tech support companies rely on internally developed and managed tools for their operations in their early stages.

Inbound vs. outbound call centers: What's the difference?

In a world of chatbots and email, you might guess that shoppers today rarely call businesses. The opposite is true; according to The Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2020, the phone is still the most common tool customers use to resolve issues with a company. That’s true even for millennials and Gen Z. An analysis of 45,000 companies shows that more than 50% of their millennial and Gen Z customers call businesses.

Now your field team can be productive anywhere and anytime with Freshdesk's offline mode

Field service providers routinely receive calls for help from remote places. At Freshdesk, we see our customers responding to field service requests daily and delivering solutions in person—be it fixing a customer’s car or setting up an internet connection for a dairy farm, businesses use Freshdesk Field Service Management to improve lives in a variety of situations.

4 Ways to Use Video for Your Customer Support & Operations

Living in a world where remote work is now common, more companies are leveraging video technology than ever before to keep in touch internally and with customers. Be it company-wide staff meeting or leadership calls, video has become an important part of how we work. So, how can businesses make the most of video technology to improve their customer support and operations? Here are four ways.