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Think of communication as the oxygen of a remote team. Like a good relationship, it takes work to communicate well, and there are ups and downs. As Carol Dweck from Stanford University, shares in her book Mindset: "It takes work to communicate accurately. It takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no 'they live happily ever after' but it's more like 'they worked happily ever after.'"

The COVID-19 pandemic left conference organizers and event planners in a tough spot. Hosting a virtual conference seems to be the natural move for organizations that had to move away from face-to-face events in 2020. However, organizing online events might seem overwhelming for a few people.

In this release, we added some great new features to both the Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition. We will briefly walk you through the main features in this post.

Rocket.Chat Mobile App 4.8 is going to be launched next week with many exciting new features, improvements, bug fixes, and user experience development efforts. Check them out!

Thanks to our amazing team and community, we are thrilled to announce the arrival of Rocket.Chat 3.3.0! This post summarizes the main features brought by this new release, with a special focus on new Omnichannel features.

Managing users and passwords for different applications can be a real challenge. especially if you are an enterprise admin. The stakes are high–get it wrong and hackers may compromise your organization. That’s why Gluu has been helping different organizations to centralize digital authentication since 2009. The Gluu Server is the most comprehensive open-source identity platform on the market.

After careful consideration, Rocket.Chat is officially moving its documentation to GitBook. With this change, we expect to improve the rate of which we develop, fix, and maintain documentation by making sure everyone on the team can edit it easily. Previously, we used Jekyll for documentation purposes. However, as time passed, we faced more and more issues with Jekyll. Therefore, we’ve decided to move to Gitbook which provides a more user-friendly and collaborative product for everyone.

Last week, the leading software review platform Capterra announced that Rocket.Chat has been named Top 20 in these two categories: Top 5 Most Popular Live Chat Softwares, Top 20 Most Popular Remote Work Softwares. Capterra is a free online service that helps organizations find the best tech solutions to succeed. We are humbled to see our efforts recognized by such a well-known authority for tech platforms!

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.