Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

October 2021

Triggering Modals | Tasks App | Slack Platform

Modals provide focused spaces ideal for requesting and collecting data from users, or temporarily displaying dynamic and interactive information. For users, modals are prominent and pervasive — taking center stage in Slack ahead of any other interface element. Follow along as Slack Developer Advocate Sandra Illi Villarreal shows you how we leverage modals throughout Tasks App.

Is TeamViewer Free? Expectation vs. Reality

During covid 19 things have changed a lot for enterprises and companies. Work from home encouraged virtual meetups and conferences for work. Many applications came into the picture for fulfilling the need for virtual meets. TeamViewer is the same application used for remote desktop sharing and team meetups. Many people still wonder, is TeamViewer free or not? The majority of people are using the accessible version of TeamViewer and utilizing the facilities for day-to-day operations.

The Great Open Source Debate

Tune in as we bring together the greatest minds in open source for a no-holds-barred conversation on the biggest trends in the field today. We are dedicated to sharing open-source knowledge The debate follows an 'agree or disagree' format where, for each statement, the experts need to talk it out until we get some answers. Here’s an example: Open Source creates innovation, not finished products Open Source is not beginner-friendly and has a steep learning curve The experts will weigh in and the audience will get a chance to join the conversation in the live chat.

Element One - all of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

We’re incredibly excited to launch Element One! It’s a complete messaging package - the Element app with high-performance hosting, the entire Matrix universe and bridging to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. All for just $5 per month. So if you’re tired of jumping between messaging apps, Element One is for you! You can be in your Element while chatting on Matrix, and when messaging friends who use WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.

The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: User Requirements

So your CTO has just handed you a project to revamp or build your product’s notification system. It seemed like a simple and straightforward project, but you started doing research and realized that not only is the process pretty complicated, there’s not a lot of information online on how to do it. After all, companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Slack have large teams of over 25 employees working just on notifications.

WhatsApp vs Telegram - What are Your Priority Features or Privacy?

Given a choice, if you have to choose the best instant messenger and uninstall the other messengers, what they would be, I believe it has to be WhatsApp vs Telegram because, considering the estimated number of users on the aforementioned respective platforms, other platforms have fewer users comparatively. There were days when WhatsApp was predominantly used in many countries but due to its privacy policy that was announced in January 2021.

Introduction to Courier: Send API, Automations, and Recipient Lists

Welcome to Courier! We're really glad that you chose us to a be part of your journey to building an awesome, sophisticated communication system. In this video, we will give a brief introduction on how you can navigate our documentation and build your notifications with Courier using our APIs. We will also build a sample email digest and go demonstrate how the data log can be utilized for better observability into your outgoing notifications.

5 Virtual Presentation Tips for Remote Team Communication

Presenting to your remote team is key to collaborating when you can’t be in the same room. But while we have plenty of software solutions at our fingertips, there’s more to effective engagement than just having the right tools. With many of us now working from home or moving to a hybrid workstyle, it’s never been more important to prioritize good communication and collaboration.

Mattermost v6.0 is Now Available

Mattermost v6.0 is generally available today, launching a redesigned integrated platform. This release includes new platform navigation, plus new features and improvements to Channels, Playbooks, and Boards. A new Mattermost Desktop v5.0 application is released, and multiple features have been promoted to generally available.

Introducing Mattermost 6.0: A New Approach to Developer Collaboration

Today, too many software organizations are in crisis. They face soaring expectations on delivering digital solutions, a complex and fast-changing array of new technologies and new threats to understand, and a limited pool of experienced developers, SRE, and SecOps professionals ready to execute in modern environments. What’s worse, technical talent is too often misconfigured.

Using Zapier to Automate Tasks between Troop Messenger and Other Apps

Indeed, most of us keep switching between a lot of different apps to perform our project deliverables. This effort consumes plenty of productive work hours of an employee as well as the organization. Therefore, to reduce the time duration and extra effort for multi-tasks, we need a tool to do tasks that they can't do manually and speed up the work without re-intervention!

Element 1.9.1 - Chat Export is finally here!!

Hiya folks! We’re pleased to announce that our latest release includes the ability to export chat from all Rooms and DMs on Element Web and Desktop - with huge thanks to Jaiwanth Vemula from IIT Kharagpur University, who single-handedly built the whole feature as his Google Summer Of Code contribution this year! The ability to export is one of our most up-voted features ever; we’re incredibly excited that it’s here.

Simpler plans for Element, on-premise and cloud!

You may have noticed the Element website has had a bit of a refresh today. We’ve made it a little easier for people to navigate according to how they want to use Element - there are now personal, community and enterprise tabs in the top navigation bar. Simultaneously we’ve distinguished Element Matrix Services (EMS) a little more, to make it clear that EMS offers hosted Matrix infrastructure directly to developers so they can build on Matrix.

What is Team Chat Software and How does it Work?

Team chat software is a place where you can connect and communicate with your team members in a secure and dedicated professional environment. A lot of people refer to team chat software as a business communication tool, but it is much more than just this. Team chat software is a powerful invention that helps you connect with people from across different departments, countries and even continents.

Welcome to Courier

Welcome to Courier. We like put your engineers first, so we have designed a reliable, customizable, and cost-efficient notification system that only takes minutes to integrate into your product. To get started, head over to your Courier app and create your account. The onboarding process will walk you through creating and sending your first notification. You can use the application to build, send, automate, and monitor the status of all of your outbound messages.

The Courier Lab Episode 1 - The Journey of Building Ghostifications V1

Welcome to The Courier Lab, where we demonstrate how Courier works, highlight our favorite community projects, and talk about all things notifications with host @ShreyTheCray. The topic of this episode is "The Journey to Building Ghostifications," including the basics of communication, intro to using the Courier API, and a demo of how to build the Ghostifications project.

Top 10 Microsoft Teams Alternatives in 2022

Are you running a firm and looking for a better space for your company/firm to connect with customers, and set up a better place for employees on a single platform, and thinking about switching off Microsoft teams here. Thinking about How do I get rid of Microsoft teams. Here We have the 10 best Microsoft Teams alternatives?.

EMS launches Matrix bridging for Signal

EMS, Element’s Matrix hosting platform, has launched a fully managed Signal Bridging service (based on Matrix community contributor Tulir's open source mautrix-signal bridge) to help enterprises address all sorts of issues around the use of Signal in the workplace. The fully managed Signal Bridging service allows EMS customers to.

10 Biggest advantages of open-source software

Sara is an SEO Strategist at Rocket.Chat. She is passionate about topics around digital transformation, workplace experience, open source, and data privacy and security. Sara Ana Cemazar Open-source software is undoubtedly gaining traction. Even though the open-source community has been active in their promotion of open source advantages for years, there have never been more open-source projects in use than today.