We live in an increasingly connected age where you can get real-time updates on practically any topic and have packages delivered to your door the next day at the click of a button. The result of this connectivity is that customer expectations are changing rapidly. One area, in particular, is customer service. When consumers have questions or problems, they want answers right away. Fail to meet those expectations and you risk customers switching to other alternatives.

Curious about call center monitoring? Call centers are the focus of global, on-call customer service. And ensuring excellent customer service via call centers is crucial to every type of business. This is why call center monitoring is becoming increasingly important. But how do you start the call center monitoring process? This article will explore call center monitoring, the six steps for effective call center monitoring, and its key benefits.

Under the Appearance tab in your OneDesk Email Settings, you are able to edit some visual aspects of your email messages. If you have completed the Getting Started Wizard in OneDesk, you would have already edited aspects of the header (the logo) and added a signature. The email header and signature you set will be what OneDesk uses to wrap all your emails in. We put these at the top (header) and bottom (signature) of every email from OneDesk.

With many exciting new features and improvements, we’re incredibly excited to announce Rocket.Chat 3.13! We gathered the most important updates on this release and listed them below so you don’t miss a thing. Learn more about Rocket.Chat 3.13.

Planning to revamp your website, organize a charity drive, or maybe a spring picnic with friends? According to PMI the success of your project is highly dependent on the planning stage. Research shows a strong correlation between planning and success, even when spending as little as only 20% of your time on planning. Spending that extra time in the beginning to prepare for anyl possible scenario could save your picnic from the rain and your project from derailing.

If you’ve participated in a workshop, conference, or brainstorm, then you’ve probably experienced a breakout session. That’s when the meeting facilitator divides up participants into smaller groups to privately discuss a topic. When done correctly, breakout sessions are an excellent opportunity to have candid conversations and connect with other participants on a more intimate level than a broader meeting allows.

Today I'm happy to announce the release of Pushover 3.7 for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Desktop with custom sound support! While Pushover has long included 21 different sounds that can be selected per-message through our API, a common feature request was the ability to play custom notification sounds stored on a user's device.