“We have communication issues.” You’ve probably heard this one a million times as an excuse for many things. Be it unfinished work, employees who are in a bad mood, poor teamwork, or something else, this sentence pops up quite a lot. If you take a look at some surveys, poor communication is one of the biggest reasons for problems at work. But what does poor communication really mean for you? When communication is poor, deadlines don’t get met. Starting projects is difficult.

Mattermost shipped with Spanish in version 2.0 on February 16, 2016. The effort was largely completed by our first translations contributor, Elias Nahum. The very next month, Mattermost shipped with Brazilian Portuguese, soon followed by French, Japanese, and more. Today, Mattermost ships in 16 languages, and 26 other languages are in progress. In total, hundreds of contributors have translated more than 700,000 words. 700,000 words. Wow! I am amazed by what our localization community has achieved.

Apps from Doodle, Cisco Webex, Freshdesk and more now include shortcuts—built-in actions for using your favorite tools right in Slack

Can’t meet face to face with agencies, clients, consultants and customers? Try these tips for collaborating together in a shared Slack channel

Learn how to keep your team together and moving forward, even while working remotely

The arrival of COVID-19 in Brazil brought serious challenges to states, city halls, and the federal government: how to optimize healthcare services to the population, without overloading the health system and reducing the pace of contagion? Rocket.Chat partnered with Amazon and other players to provide a solution for that: a digital assistance platform to help Brazilians diagnose the virus quickly and easily.

In person, you can easily tell someone’s mood based on their body language and how they speak, but that’s much more difficult with text alone. Emojis are a great way to add tone to a piece of text and also help make text-based conversation feel more casual, relaxed, and fun. Thanks to emojis, we can chat with much more real emotion than you might get by being careful about your word choice or by including just the right number of exclamation marks and periods at the end of a sentence.

After significant development and thanks to our team and community, we are delighted to announce the arrival of Rocket.Chat 3.1.0, full of exciting features! In this post, we will give you a quick overview of the main features brought by our latest release. Find the entire list of new features, updates, and bug fixes here. Thanks to this feature, there is no need to create a private channel to have a chat with multiple users anymore.

In recent years, the move from deploying applications on-premise into the cloud has accelerated quickly and changed the whole industry. Today, most services are ready to be used in as short as a few minutes. Rocket.Chat is no different and there is no need to wait any longer: Rocket.Chat as a managed service is ready for you.

A nationwide survey of knowledge workers reveals how companies and employees are responding to a remote work surge

First thing’s first: Why are you comparing Google Drive with OneDrive or Dropbox? If you’re reading this dropbox vs google drive review, it’s safe to assume you want to make a more informed choice about choosing your cloud storage solutions. Given how all these three giants are rolling one feature after another, the choice can be tough. And that’s what we are here for - to take the pain out of the dropbox vs onedrive comparison trap and simplify it for you.

Being in business for over 13 years, KingHost is a well-known technology provider for website hosting, email marketing, e-commerce hosting, cloud hosting, and marketing automation. Acquired in 2019 by Locaweb, the leader in Latin America for hosting services, communication plays an essential role to maintain market leadership. Let’s dive into their challenges and how Rocket.Chat helped the company to improve increase efficiency in 70%.

COVID-19 is going to be a tipping point for the work-from-home business model. Work from home tools and productivity apps like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, and Troop Messenger have become an essential. Business owners and team leaders are now relying on these tools to manage their staff remotely. Remote work has become a trend that’s showing no sign of slowing down. There has been a considerable upswing in the businesses that are operating remotely.

Mattermost 5.22 ships with new features designed to help your team work faster.

Join us in testing an experimental feature set offering additional functionality for managing channels in your sidebar. The features will roll out in stages beginning in v5.22 (April 16, 2020) under an opt-in config setting that can be enabled by System Admins: Experimental Sidebar Features. We are excited to share these powerful features with you and look forward to your feedback. As we iterate on the user experience, we plan to release the features for general availability later this year.

More than 2,000 developers from around the world participated in our open source bot hackfest, which we hosted on HackerEarth from January 10 through March 2. The goal of the event was to work with our community to create open source chatbots that integrate with Mattermost to accelerate DevOps and DevSecOps workflows, and we received many amazing submissions! We gave away $10,000 in prizes, including $6,000 cash to our top contributors.

Engineering Advice on supporting your teams—technical or otherwise—when everyone is telecommuting

Our chief product officer explains what that means and why it matters now

First things first, why are people searching for Discord alternatives? Well, Discord has surrounded itself with quite a few controversies. In 2017, Discord became a target tool for alt-right groups, and the app, due to lack of security, was used to rally up supporters. Discord is vulnerable to hacking attempts,and that’s one of the reasons why security-conscious organizations are looking for better and more secure alternatives to discord.

As companies experience the outbreak of COVID-19, you’re likely holding team meetings with Zoom, Skype or similar applications. While Coronavirus made these applications popular, it also exposed serious privacy issues and security problems. Many remote companies trust proprietary-code platforms, such as Skype or Zoom, to communicate online. Although easily accessible, they do not disclose how they actually function.

Get to know the winning app submissions and try these tips for running a remote hackathon of your own

Two all-remote software companies share their best practices for connecting with colleagues while respecting work-life balance

As a remote-first company, we bring employees and members of our community together once a year at our offsite event, which is called MatterCon. MatterCon isn’t your run-of-the-mill conference—it’s more of a meeting of the minds where we’re encouraged to get to know the people we work with, share ideas with each other, and create together.

Messaging helps people foster strong relationships with their family and friends. Now messaging platforms are open for business. Conversational business comprises the different ways messaging channels can be used in support, marketing, sales, and beyond. Customers, shoppers, prospects and leads want to communicate with businesses with the same ease and convenience that they experience when talking to their friends and family.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, work from home has become a norm and remote collaboration software has become more important than ever. In fact, due to the coronavirus outbreak, a vast number of employees are working from home for the first time - which can be daunting for the unversed. And it can be even more complicated if you don’t know the right tools. Fortunately, we live in a world where remote collaboration can be as effective as face-to-face interaction.

How Slack is helping customers thrive during an unprecedented time of remote work

On the 16th of every month, we release an update to the Mattermost server. The release happens on the same day, every month, without fail. It’s a cadence that our customers have come to rely on, and it helps us deliver new features and updates with drumbeat regularity. Hitting this hard deadline every month while ensuring high-quality releases requires clear processes and organizational discipline. This is a challenge for any team.

Looking for free alternatives to TeamViewer? We hear you Fortunately, when it comes to finding a better TeamViewer alternative, there are a variety of options and discussion on Reddit. But before we look at the best alternatives, let’s review why TeamViewer may not always be a perfect choice. One of the reasons why TeamViewer users want to migrate to a different remote desktop access software is that it is not free for commercial use. The plans are expensive.

Senior writer Matt Haughey explains what’s new and what’s moved in the latest Slack desktop experience

Senior writer Matt Haughey explains what’s new and what’s moved in the latest Slack desktop experience

Today we released Zulip Desktop 5.0.0, fixing multiple critical security issues as well as several other important issues. Huge thanks to Matt Austin for responsibly reporting CVE-2020-10856, CVE-2020-10857, and CVE-2020-10858, and helping validate the fixes.