Find out how this £1 billion business uses Slack to keep its people engaged and productive, whether they’re working from home or the office

Mattermost v5.31 is generally available today. This is an Extended Support Release and includes bug fixes for increased stability (see changelog for details) as well as the following new features: Enterprise Edition All Editions

Working in the sales department of any company is not an easy task. In addition to dealing with multiple stakeholders, you also have to split your time between meetings with clients, proposals, follow-up calls and strategies to increase sales.

On January 6, Riley Napier joined me for our first Courier Live of the new year. Having recently set up webhooks using Twitch EventSub, I wanted to walk through how you could trigger notifications about your Twitch livestreams using Courier. We did this using a Glitch application and explained how to set it up and start accepting requests from Twitch.

We’re delighted to announce that Element Matrix Services (EMS), our flagship Matrix hosting platform, has launched a fully managed bridge for text-channels in Discord. Discord Bridging brings interoperability between Matrix-based apps and the Discord chat platform. The fully-hosted bridge is now available within EMS via the Integrations tab of the EMS host management dashboard. A single bridge deployment currently supports up to 20 rooms by default, each with unlimited use.

Notifications are an essential part of every application. They’re how products communicate with users when key events take place, whether it’s confirming their account or alerting them to new activity. But, for developers and companies, delivering notifications that meet their users’ rising expectations can be a challenge. Today, users expect you to notify them on the channels where they already are, at exactly the right moment and with respect for their individual preferences.

BizWho? Why do I even care about it? BizOps, or as the newbies call it Business Operations, is the foundation for scalability. If your goal is to take your company from a Palo Alto garage to unicorn status, good luck getting there in one piece without BizOps.

Two unconnected events in the first week of 2021 have sped the adoption of decentralised real time communication. WhatsApp is being sucked dry by its data mining owner The first was an update to WhatsApp’s privacy policy. Rarely has a privacy policy managed to generate quite so much media coverage. Perhaps the first working day of the year wasn’t such a good time to bury bad news after all.