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February 2023

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Most people know Element as a secure collaboration and messaging app. They know what it looks like on their phone or laptop, appreciate that it’s end-to-end encrypted, and make increasing use of features like threads, polls and location-sharing. In short, they are familiar with the front-end; the client, the app or whatever else you want to call it.

Top 10 most secure messaging apps for healthcare

In the healthcare industry, patient confidentiality and data privacy are paramount. Healthcare providers must be extra cautious while communicating and exchanging sensitive patient information electronically, especially with the increasing use of digital platforms and the rising risks of cyber threats. Moreover, data privacy regulations like HIPAA make it mandatory for healthcare providers to ensure the confidentiality of patient data.

GovTalk: Navigating 2023's Trends and Challenges

Executive Order to improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity, Zero Trust Initiatives, DoD Digital, and Software Modernization Strategies, are all pushing digitization and security to the top of government project schedules. Gartner predicts that worldwide government IT spending will grow 6.8% in 2023. 🚀 Government organizations are being challenged to upgrade their internal processes in order to deploy innovative new services and enable more effective collaboration, while fully protecting all users' privacy, data, and communications.

21 Discord Alternatives with Pros and Cons

Discord is one of the most popular and effective online communication tools. So why do so few companies use it for business? Here we’ll discuss Discord and the 21 Discord alternatives available today. Discord is a communication app. It allows its users to communicate through voice, video, and text for free. The app began as a messaging solution for gamers but has quickly grown, and users now use Discord to communicate about various topics and interests.

10 best HIPAA compliant messaging tools

Healthcare industry is undergoing a major digital transformation. Patients are increasingly choosing healthcare providers who offer digital capabilities such as self-scheduling, in-app reminders, and chat support. Moreover, digital healthcare innovations enable intense collaboration of medical and non-medical staff in and between organizations. Empowering digital healthcare communication but staying compliant with important data privacy regulations calls for HIPAA compliant messaging.

Rocket.Chat - Secure and compliant collaboration platform

Rocket.Chat is the world's largest open source communications platform. Built for organizations that need more control over their communications, it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure.

Introducing Courier Preferences: The Fastest Way to Design the Best Preference Experience

Notification preferences are important — especially if you’re building an application that sends dozens of notifications. Users want control over which kind of notifications they receive, and through what channels. That’s why it is essential to provide a well-designed preference experience that’s quick, intuitive, and guaranteed to respect your users’ chosen preferences. With Courier, you can build great notification infrastructure effortlessly.

How To Have A Productive Day: 11 Killable Tips

As the demands of our daily lives become increasingly complex, it is essential to have a productive day to keep up. Recent studies have found that remote workers are 13% more effective when they work from home as opposed to in an office environment. However, it can be difficult to remain motivated and focused when working remotely or from home. That is why we have collected 10 killable tips for having a productive day.

Mattermost wins 'best innovation in communication and messaging' in DeveloperWeek DEVIES Awards

It’s with great pride we announce Mattermost has won the 11th annual DEVIES Award for Best Innovation in Communication and Messaging. The award was presented on February 15 during DeveloperWeek 2023. The Mattermost platform distinguished itself as the most effective collaboration platform for developer and engineering teams.

6 best open-source Twilio alternatives

Twilio is one of the big names in the space of omnichannel communication. However, it’s not the only one! As technology advances, more businesses seek communication solutions offering better flexibility and security. While Twilio remains a giant in this bustling metropolis, there is now a multitude of open-source alternatives that offer unique features and benefits. These alternatives may provide additional capabilities and advantages, depending on the situation.

8 Organic B2B Growth Channels for your B2B SaaS Business

The success of your B2B SaaS business greatly depends on the B2B growth channels you use. Let me provide some evidence to support the statement mentioned above. Regardless of quality in the digital age, your SaaS business would compete fiercely with all other SaaS companies. You might provide a superior offering compared to all the SaaS products on the market. Still, to get a lead from your prospective clients, your client or customer needs already be aware of the existence of your product or service.

What is Workation and How to Plan a Successful One?

There is no denying that the pandemic has significantly altered the way we live and conduct business today. A system that we once believed to be impenetrable has undergone changes over the past two and a half years. In an effort to combat COVID-19, hybrid and remote work emerged. However, as businesses constantly work to keep their employees satisfied, these practices are becoming increasingly popular. An ecosystem that was inconceivable before the epidemic has been formed and changing the work dynamics.

82 Motivational Productivity Quotes That will Alter your Stance

Speaking for myself, productivity quotes, including the mental health memes that help me deal with stress in various ways, played a key influence in my professional life. I developed the habit of reading to them both occasionally. I am a writer by profession, and unlike most writers, I spend ample time learning about the subject before writing the blog. And one fine day, as I pondered whether my approach was correct, I came across the quote below.

Tools and Techniques to Establish Your Data Team Early

You can’t really invest in a data team too early. That’s something we learned as a small but growing team. We invested in a data team at an early stage, so we could establish product usage trends, create business insights, and identify areas to improve our product. If you’re an early-stage startup, start building your data strategy team and architecture as soon as you can.

Smarter Customer Engagement Flows with Courier's New Segment Integration

Having a clear idea how your users interact with your app — when they log in, which features they engage with, or which notifications they click on — can help you design a better experience and ultimately increase user engagement. But retracing your users’ steps across various integrations is a complex task. Customer data platforms (CDPs) like Segment seek to achieve it by aggregating event data from multiple sources in one centralized location.

What is RingCentral? Review 2023: Features, Pricing, Pros, and Cons

Today, we are going to talk about one of the most talked about companies on the internet today 🥁. You may have already guessed it from the title of this blog—but a little drama is important too. So yes, we’re talking about RingCentral in this blog. It is a cloud-based communications company that offers unlimited calling, team messaging, enhanced business SMS, toll-free business lines, and document sharing throughout the United States and Canada.

10 best Twilio alternatives to engage with your customers

In this digital era, businesses must lean on innovative ways to communicate with customers as the world becomes increasingly connected. Twilio is one of the most well-known platforms for extending communications to multiple channels, including SMS and voice. However, did you know that several other alternatives to Twilio offer similar features and, in some cases, even more functionality?

Rocket.Chat - Secure and compliant collaboration platform

Rocket.Chat is the world's largest open source communications platform. Built for organizations that need more control over their communications, it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure.

Decode | Automate Push notifications with Flutter and Node.js with Mike Miller

- This workshop is designed for developers looking to learn how to automate push notifications in web and mobile applications in three steps: By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a solid understanding of sending and automation notifications from Node.js apps and be able to implement their newfound skills in their own applications.

The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

We all want to be able to address abuse on the internet. In the UK, the government is trying to achieve this through the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Developing such a bill is difficult as technology evolves far faster than legislation. But even allowing for that challenge, and that the OSB has some genuinely good intentions, the proposed legislation is still remarkably poor.

Develop a Motivational QOTD with Courier and GPT2

Motivational quotes were quite the rage back in the day when MMS & email forwarding were popular. I remember my parents forwarding me at the start of every morning. Fast forward to today, if you are lucky, you are part of some forward group on your messaging app of choice (Whatsapp, Telegram, etc.). Inspired by the same idea, today we are going to build a service that sends our friends and family an AI generated motivational quote-of-the-day.

10 best team chat apps in 2023

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you realize that the way we communicate has changed. Instant chat solutions like WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, and others are now the primary tools we use to communicate in our private lives. There are lots of advantages to these chat solutions. Almost everybody uses them, and it’s easy to reach your friends by texting, sending voice messages, or initiating a video call. Why would communicating with your work colleagues look any different?

Finding The Right Balance of Hybrid Work

What is hybrid work? A hybrid work model is a type of employment arrangement that combines elements of remote and on-site work. In a hybrid work model, employees have the flexibility to work from anywhere, irrespective of their office location but they are also expected to come into the office for certain meetings or to collaborate with colleagues. This type of work arrangement has become popular in recent years as technology has made it easier for people to communicate and collaborate remotely.

New AI-Powered Content and Changelog to Create Great Product Notifications Fast

The Designer in Courier’s web UI is an intuitive tool for creating, modifying, and testing notification templates. It allows you to integrate notification design seamlessly into your overall workflow — regardless of your level of technical expertise. Today, we’re proud to present two new features in the Courier Designer.

4 strategies for optimizing productivity for technical and operational teams

Organizations globally have been keeping a close eye on the economy — and some conflicting economic signals. The Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world continue to raise interest rates even though inflation has begun to ease. Major brands are also trimming staff even though demand for talent continues to boost wages. During periods of economic uncertainty, smart enterprises look for ways to optimize productivity and return on investment (ROI).

A guide to the top 5 patient engagement healthcare apps

Patients have become knowledgeable and empowered healthcare consumers in a world where useful information is readily available. No longer restricted to merely receiving medical care, patients are demanding convenient customer experiences from their healthcare provider, such as streamlined communication channels, instant access to reports, and scheduling visits. At present, patients are even willing to switch clinics if they are dissatisfied with the services they get.

Utility companies need secure, mission critical communications

In our increasingly volatile world, organisations are having to assess how well they can respond to a crisis. When considering their ability to communicate in a crisis, many companies running mission critical services are turning to Element. Critical national infrastructure is a high value target for all types of physical and cyber attacks, with both profit-minded criminals and rogue nations seeking to benefit by causing major - potentially life threatening - disruption.

What is Hot Desking and Its Trends for 2023?

The flexibility and the benefits of remote work have made it a preferred working model in the present day. Employees want to avoid dealing with morning traffic and chaotic workspaces again. On the other hand, employers save big by not renting or owning large offices that require heavy operational overheads. For those starting a business in 2023, hot desking can help save big for bootstrapping startups.

6 Tools & Services To Help Get Your Small Business off to a Great Start

Starting a small business from scratch is often akin to climbing a mountain with a heavy rock in your backup. You have an undeniably difficult path ahead of you, where a vast majority of people give up, and add to that an endless stream of obstacles, hellbent on derailing your efforts, and defeating you no matter how hard you try, and how much time you spend.