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New: Organize, monitor, and communicate work at multiple levels of your organization by adding Portfolios to Portfolios

Despite all of the changes to the workplace last year, one thing hasn’t changed—employees are still spending 60% of their time on work about work. These activities, like searching for information or chasing status updates, take time away from meaningful, strategic work that moves your organization forward. In 2018, we introduced Portfolios to help teams reduce work about work and organize their most important strategic initiatives with project portfolio management.

M Files Admin: Sending Notifications via Workflow | Intelligent Information Management

Notifications are a great way of keeping people up to date of what is going on with the documents they put into a workflow. To send a notification, first define the recipient users and user groups. Then enter the notification subject and the message. You can also specify the user from metadata or state transitions.

Organize your sidebar with custom, collapsible channel categories

Mattermost now gives users flexibility to organize channels and direct messages into custom, collapsible sidebar categories. Users gain full personalization of their sidebar to improve productivity, reduce clutter, and focus on what matters. Upgrade to Mattermost server v5.32 (releasing February 16th) and later to access these feature enhancements on your desktop, with mobile support coming soon.

Waweru Mathenge on The Revamped Role of Corporate Secretaries | CSIA x Convene Webinar

Undoubtedly, existing employee functions have been greatly affected by digitalization. Some are even concerned that digitalizing certain processes may lead to laying off employees. Waweru Mathenge, Chairman of the Insitute of Certified Secretaries in Kenya, explains how digitalization redefined the roles of corporate secretaries. This quote is from Going Digital in the Boardroom: Considerations and Challenges, a webinar powered by Convene and the Corporate Secretaries International Association, held on January 27, 2021.

What Is a Chatbot (and How Does It Work)?

In this article, we’ll go through everything you need to know about chatbots. We’ll explain what a chatbot is, how it works, and why you need one. We’ll also go through information like: By the end of the article, you’ll know exactly what a chatbot is and how to get started using one. Let’s dive right in.

Learn the Value of Specialized Collaboration Tools

Throughout the pandemic, the collaboration tools market experienced a major boom with the rise of remote work. However, the recent acquisition of Slack by Salesforce has reinforced the growing separation between workplace tool suites and specialized collaboration tools. Suites have become “one-stop-shop” solutions that can fill multiple functions for companies and employees, which brings into question, what value is there for niche solutions?

How DB Systel, Partner of Deutsche Bahn, Provides a World-Class Customer Service Thanks to Rocket.Chat

Germany’s railway infrastructure is considered the backbone of its economy because of a single company: Deutsche Bahn (DB). As the country’s local and long-distance railway service provider, the company’s growth is remarkable: Industry: Railway transport, Logistics Headquarter: Berlin, Germany Headcount: 300,000 employees Annual Passengers: 151 million passengers transported in 2019

4 templates to help you run meetings with empathy

“Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you – they might have different tastes.” — George Bernard Shaw When it was time to look back and reflect on my three-month onboarding period at Miro, I was convinced that I’ve never been part of such a collaborative, open team culture. Curiously enough, I’ve never met anyone from my team (or company) in person.

Here's Where to Spend Your Money on Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID World

It's safe to say that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for all of us — especially for organizations that were in the process of undergoing their own digital transformations as the lock downs started in March 2020. The need to use technology to support a fast-paced and agile workplace was always paramount — but somehow, it's become even more so in an era where most of your employees are going to be working from home for the foreseeable future.

Stop for a CX moment- 4 industry leaders on thriving under adversity

As the world adjusts to the “new reality” of the pandemic, industry leaders look back on what has worked well for them and share advice about what to expect in the future. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from recent interviews with industry leaders, as part of Zendesk’s CX Moments virtual events series.