The world is going through a lot right now, with the current outbreak of the coronavirus. Lots of things changed in recent weeks, and most prominently, a lot of companies switched to working remotely. While remote work is far from a novelty, many companies are now giving it a go for the first time just now.
As a remote-first company, we’ve spent a lot of time optimizing how we work together as a team. In these challenging times, teams around the world are working to flatten the curve by trying their hand at remote working for the first time. To help these teams succeed, we thought it was the perfect time to share some of the practices and culture we’ve developed to run meetings effectively on Mattermost. Here are seven tips for successful remote meetings.
We believe open source is best done transparently. We feel that communicating clearly and concisely what we are changing, adding, or fixing is a matter of high importance when it comes to our community. In the early days of Rocket.Chat, we didn’t have an easy way of allowing our users to help support the development of Rocket.Chat.
Rocket.Chat is a communication hub that is ideal for organizations that are looking to facilitate their digital communication and collaborate regardless of location, with high-security standards. We are the perfect tool for async and sync conversations, we not only provide an ecosystem of tools for teams, we also have solutions to keep your communication with external stakeholders.
Using the right tools, working remotely comes with numerous benefits. It gives employees independence, enables the company to hire talent worldwide, saves time and money with transportation, reduces ecological footprint and can boost team productivity. In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the majority of organizations are asking their stakeholders to keep digital relations.
Suddenly, your whole operation had to move into a remote scenario. As a manager or business owner, you may feel completely lost and unprepared to deal with it. When globally scaled issues like COVID-19 happen, we realize the importance of keeping a business going through challenging times. However, staying productive online requires defining the right tools. Check below the main ones (even internally used by our team at Rocket.Chat) to help your team stay collaborative and efficient.
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Push notifications are an important aspect of the Mattermost user experience on mobile. When important messages come in, many users like to be notified on their mobile devices so they can respond quickly. Mobile push notifications make it easier for users to stay informed or take faster action while on the go. When it comes to mobile data privacy, many organizations prioritize secure handling of messaging data, particularly when it may contain mission-critical or proprietary information.
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Remote working has been the solution of countless companies to the ever-present problem of burnout. Companies that don’t offer remote working options have had to deal with resignations en masse as a result of their unwillingness to evolve — but you don’t have to. If you want to adapt to remote working trends before you lose your skilled employees then you’ve come to the right place.
Learn six practical ways to help you stay connected—and make a difference—while working remotely
Learn six practical ways to help you stay connected – and make a difference – while working remotely
Keep teams productive and connected with these templates for automating processes like daily huddles, requests, approvals and more
Hey Riot users, We’ve seen a massive spike in video conferencing in Riot so far this week: ...and the free conferencing deployment we’ve been running for Riot on the old matrix.org infrastructure has become completely overloaded. As a result, we’ve accelerated work to provide a properly maintained, elastically scalable Jitsi deployment for high quality voice and video conferencing as part of the services provided by Modular.im.
Keep teams productive and connected with these templates for automating processes like daily huddles, requests, approvals and more.
We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone.
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Jennifer Christie, Twitter's vice president of people, shares how the company transitioned its 4,900-strong global workforce into an all-remote team
We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone
Maintaining success in a large open source project is one of the key objectives of Mattermost. We have hundreds of contributors and we want to create a project that could serve as a model in the Go community. Having said that, following idiomatic Go principles is the thing that we care most about while maintaining our code consistency. For this specific task, we utilized go vet and with this blog post, I would like to explain how we pushed the limits of this tool by extending it.
Suddenly found yourself in a virtual working world? Fret not, here’s how you can manage your next all-hands, conference or team meeting digitally
There are many benefits of using a remote workforce, such as lowering overhead costs and gaining access to a larger talent pool. However, this trend also opens up more opportunities for cybercriminals to hack into your system and steal sensitive data. Cyberattacks can lead to customer loss, brand reputation loss, and productivity/operational loss. In fact, customer attrition rates can increase by as much as 30 percent following a cyberattack!
If you’ve been using G Suite for in the past years, you must have noticed one aspect of their offer – Hangouts Chat. While it has changed over the years, Hangouts has stayed as one of the most prominent team chat apps out there, primarily because it’s so well integrated into Google’s offer. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have noticed that we love comparing team chat apps in our team chat wars.
Companies that collaborate through screen sharing software & co-browsing enjoy 2.4% annual decrease in support cost, year-over-year Screen sharing feature enables a user to instantly see another user’s screen and direct them through the toughest of conversations, guidelines, and interfaces. You can make the session more interactive by using a mouse to remotely annotate, highlight, scroll and click on the user’s screen.
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We decided to make Mattermost a remote-first company for several reasons. For example, employees don’t have to waste time commuting, we are able to hire from a wider talent pool of self-motivated individuals, and we have coverage in all time zones, which helps us respond to our customers around the world more effectively. And since we’re a remote company building collaboration software, we have plenty of opportunity to dogfood our own product.
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Thousands of Windows users have been asking the same question and wondering why Microsoft teams won’t uninstall. They delete Microsoft teams from their computers, but MS Teams, much like an uninvited guest launches itself back at boot. This is creepy and incredibly annoying because the app constantly pops up when a user turns their computer on. And, this brings us back to our question: why do Microsoft Teams keep installing itself?
Slack and Mattermost need no introduction as two of the most popular workplace communication apps. Slack, which stepped into the SaaS world as a platform for gamers to communicate, reported 10 million daily active users. Mattermost, an open-source Slack competitor, recently closed a $20 million funding to create new integrations and plugins.
The end of life statement of Skype for Business Online service, made by Microsoft on 30th July 2019, was an alarming announcement for skype customers who were accustomed to using this platform. Since the term ‘end-of-life’ has confused many people, let us explain it a bit more.
