Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Collaboration

The latest News and Information on Collaboration, tools and related technologies.

How to Convince Association Board Members to Adopt Board Portal

Switching to new technology solutions is always challenging, especially when convincing people such as association board members to adopt the change. But with the right mindset, the transition can be effortless. When the software effectively patches the gaps in workflows, you can make things run much easier. Making a case for the implementation is just a matter of discussion that is supplemented with facts. Many business types and organizations can benefit equally from using board portal software.

M-Files Administrator: Modifying Existing Property Definitions and Value Lists

Property definitions are used for determining properties associated with classes. A property definition specifies the property name (which should naturally be as descriptive as possible) and the data type, which determines the type of the data entered (in relation to the property).

4 Types of Chatbots and their Role in Customer Experience

If businesses were previously skeptical about the potential of chatbots in customer service, there is no longer any question about it. The pandemic has pushed businesses to mainstream AI and different types of chatbots for varied objectives. With evasive measures such as cost cuts, chatbots have not just helped businesses stay afloat but also garner the goodwill of customers and ROI.

How to Leverage Customer Feedback to Build the Best Products

“Customer needs serve as the ‘north star’ for most product leaders”, especially those who are always striving to leverage customer feedback to build the best products. An important part of this customer feedback naturally lands in support tools like Freshdesk, but your company actually has as many feedback channels as you have customer touchpoints and internal teams.

Online meeting best practices: 20 secrets to virtual meetings

The conversation about how much we all dread meetings isn’t a new one. There are too many of them. Most of them are colossal wastes of time. Heck, one in three people admit that they’ve felt drowsy or even fallen asleep in a meeting. But, when that meeting is happening virtually and people are only dressed appropriately from the waist up? Well, it becomes even more challenging to keep participants engaged in the conversation.

23 Critical Customer Service Scripts For Your Team + 3 Bonus Tips

When it comes to customer service scripts, practitioners are as divided as people are about pineapple on pizza. The benefits of using customer service scripts are manifold, but there are some serious downsides too, like sounding robotic or not displaying enough empathy. However, when used wisely, scripts can be very helpful to customer service representatives. In this blog, we cover everything you need to know about customer service scripts.

Using Mattermost as a tool for COVID-19 contact tracing

VCLB Ghent is a Belgian non-profit organization that serves pupils between the ages of 3 and 18 years old. Every two years, we offer students a free medical checkup. The organization also works with schools to support students that struggle with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and other issues. As a multidisciplinary team, VCLB Ghent’s staff does contact tracing for schools in the event of an outbreak of a contagious disease, such as meningitis, hepatitis, or measles.

How a Hospital uses OneDesk to connect their departments and software

With the pandemic that rocked the world in 2020, a spotlight has been shone on healthcare systems and the challenges there are in running these institutions. Beyond the medical and research components, there are lots of supporting departments that are still needed to ensure hospitals and medical equipment are operating effectively.