Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

June 2021

Looking forward to the next big Mattermost product milestone: Mattermost v6.0

The Mattermost team is actively working on our next major product release: Mattermost v6.0 is shipping this fall. That’s right around the corner! In advance of the release, we’d like to communicate some specifics on select features being promoted from beta to generally available and upcoming deprecations. We would also like to share a glimpse of what’s coming.

Chanty Kanban board feature

Meet our Kanban board view feature! Now Chanty users are able to create tasks, assign them, manage their statuses, set deadlines, and much more! All in one place! This task management feature empowers teams to work more productively and efficiently. No more lost work missed deadlines and non-collaborative teams. Try it today and make your work process better with Chanty! Task management has never been easier.

Streamline your customer service with Rocket.Chat's new Twitter app

In today’s fast-paced world, companies must be able to provide support where their customers are. With over 187 million daily active users, Twitter is undoubtedly one of the social media channels where companies must be present and available. To help businesses offer a direct communication line with Twitter users, we’re glad to introduce Rocket.Chat’s new Twitter integration.

Product Hunt Launch | Troy Goode | Courier.com | Wuphf 2.0

The rest of the Courier team and I have been building an exciting new way to design, send, and monitor all of your app's user notifications. As you may have heard in my video above, we understand that notifications are difficult to get right. So much so that most of us aren't excited about receiving many of them.

Workflow Automation: What, Why and How Businesses Automate Everyday Tasks

Automation has become a business imperative. With the demand to cut down on costs and do more with less, businesses are obviously turning to automate simple repetitive tasks. Be it collecting lead data or sending out an onboarding campaign or improving team productivity – automation has a key role in every business domain. Infact, a recent study has revealed that almost 44% of businesses are looking to increase their tech spend and replace outdated technologies.

Rocket.Chat Named Team Messaging Solution of the Year by RemoteTech Breakthrough

We’re over the moon! Rocket.Chat was selected as the winner of the Team Messaging Solution of the Year by RemoteTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technology, and products in the global remote work technology market.

Mattermost plugins: The web app

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.

Story of Chanty Team Chat App

This is a story of competing with one of the biggest names in the industry of communication tools. This is a story of how we launched Chanty, an easy-to-use team collaboration tool. And finally, this is a story of numerous startup challenges we’ve solved. I believe this story deserves your attention. Imagine a bootstrapped startup of a few fellows that is going against a SaaS giant. Add to this picture the fact that literally hundreds of apps are born in this industry each year.

Hybrid Work and Enterprise Communication Trends

⚡ With the emergence of remote and hybrid work, workplace communication has become top concerns for organizations across the world. 👉 Join our world-class speakers Marius Neidlinger (Rocket.Chat), Markus Kirsch (Rocket.Chat), Oliver Jägle (DB Systel) and Henning Dransfeld (ISG) to talk about the future Enterprise Communication.

Element is the best on-premise alternative as Skype for Business Server nears End of Life

Skype for Business is pining for the fjords... On-premise communications might be your priority, but it clearly isn’t Microsoft’s. Skype for Business Server 2022 is the last throw of a loaded dice that always lands on Microsoft Teams. That’s Microsoft’s intended migration path for you. If you need to keep your communications on-premise, just about the only reason to migrate to Skype for Business Server 2022 is that it isn’t cloud-based Microsoft Teams.

In-App Messaging Explained (With Examples and Best Practices)

In-app messages are amazing tools you can use to propel sales, onboard a new user, and interact with your users daily. It can diminish the volume of live attention requests your customer service team receives, and make it easier for the sales team to convert new users. In-app messaging is vital for your customer engagement strategy. If you know how to use it, you’ll reach the right user at the right time to address their queries. But, what is in-app messaging?

Troop Messenger | One-to-one & Group Messaging | Audio & Video Calling

Troop Messenger – a comprehensive instant messaging app for businesses-small to giant. Troop Messenger is a user-friendly office chat application compact with contemporary features addressing your business needs and necessities. Upgrade your team communication to the next level. Collaborate on a single screen. Pick the best for your business and experience the difference Troop Messenger works cross-platform on all widely used operating systems i.e. Windows, MacOS, Apple iOS and Android, and Linux.

Who Knew Email Subjects Are So Complicated

Did you know that email subjects, by default, only support 127 characters?! I didn’t, and I ran into a “fun” puzzle of a problem earlier this year when a client of ours noticed a problem with Courier-built emails in Microsoft Outlook. Small rendering issues and bugs like this can give the wrong impression to a recipient of an email. It can make the end user feel the product they are using is poorly planned or not tested.

4 Reasons Why Collaboration is Crucial for Exceptional Customer Service

Offering outstanding customer service is critical if you wish to retain customers and grow your business. However, exceptional customer support is more than just providing answers to user queries. It is, in fact, a part of the promise you make to your customers – it is the voice and face of your company.

How to get started with Mattermost on Kubernetes in just a few minutes

Since it first appeared in June 2014, Kubernetes has become something of a household name, at least in houses developers live in. The open source container orchestration platform makes challenges like load balancing, secret management, and portability a cinch and makes it easy to orchestrate large, highly scalable and distributed systems.

Watch at the Trends Designed for the Future of Troop Messenger!

These days, the team collaboration tools are enormously helping businesses to combat the coordination challenges that working teams face! The ever-increasing collaborative technology, tools, and systems allow group work to happen at ease, both at the office and remote locations. The changing times are making the future of work collaboration change according to it.

How Slack serves as Sendle's HQ, making collaboration possible across 4 time zones

Sendle’s distributed team across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and the U.S. uses Slack to collaborate flexibly and asynchronously. Sendle also relies on a strong network of industry partners, including Shopify and Stripe, that all collaborate securely on Slack Connect

Mattermost Recipe: Leveraging the Kubernetes Operator to deploy our Community Server

Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly. If there’s a Recipe you want us to cook up in the future, drop us a line on our forum.

From MVP to Production Ready With Serverless

Having been at startups my entire career, I’ve encountered the dichotomy between speed and scale when building software products.The usual attitude entrepreneurs take when building the first iterations of their products is “...we aren’t anywhere close to facing problems of scale, so let’s worry about that when we get there.” This first version of the software is built and shipped fast, and it’s only a matter of time before engineers realize that they simply don&#8217

Tackling remote workforce security challenges post-pandemic

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations are adopting or experimenting with new models of long-term remote work. For some, that means keeping their teams fully distributed. For others, it means giving employees more flexibility to work from home or even simply putting plans in place for the future. But this shift to remote work brings new challenges that both large enterprises and smaller organizations must face.

Mattermost plugins: The server side

In the first article in this series, we explained how to set up your developer environment to begin creating Mattermost plugins. In the second, we examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins and how to deploy them. Now, it’s time to dive deeper into the server side of the application, which is written in Golang.

What is Courier | 30 Second Pitch | CodeStory S4E13 | Troy Goode | Notifications | multi-channel

Courier is the fastest way to design your notifications once and deliver them through push notifications, direct messages like Slack and Facebook Messenger, SMS, and email–with a single Courier API rather than having to integrate each provider API separately.