Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Businesses have woken up to the reality of information access and management in a remote work situation. There are three immutable factors for remote work: So, what can companies do to manage information effectively in a remote work environment? Organizations must make critical information easy to find when needed.

The Mattermost platform is a powerful messaging tool that enables secure team collaboration. Rather than creating unique Mattermost plugins for each tool, Cognitio created a custom SMTP mail intercept capability that leverages AWS Lambda functionality and custom code to create integrations for a number of third-party applications.

Creating strong relationships with your customers isn’t something that happens overnight. And, every customer has a unique personality and perspective on business relationships. Ever been around a group of young pups? They may have the same parents and even look alike (i.e. adorable with tiny floppy ears) but talk about some unique personalities! It takes time and effort to understand individual pups and businesses alike, but once you do the end result is very rewarding.

Regardless of the type of business, every product and service needs to provide a great customer experience. That’s why the need for great customer experience specialists has been on the rise. The better the customer experience, the better your reputation, sales, and revenue will be. But what does a customer experience specialist do? And how can you hire the best ones?

Our legal team shares its favorite tips and tools for automating repetitive tasks, collaborating with outside counsel and much more, all inside Slack

Telecommuting or remote working is no longer only a strategy to scale up your customer service or globally distributing your support teams. It’s a growing necessity that is more about future-proofing your customer service against business-related uncertainties. Apart from being a developing global necessity, the need for telecommuting also entails the preferences of workers.

Studies of customer feedback already tell us that the majority of customers prefer to solve their problems on their own over contacting a support agent. It makes sense—self-service puts the customer in the driver’s seat, empowering them to be autonomous and find the right answers with speed. But self-service is also better for businesses. It enables them to do more with less and frees their support teams’ time up for higher-stakes issues that require a human touch.

This year, I got a unique opportunity to call in at Mattercon 2020 and give a talk about my experience working on Mattermost and open source software (OSS) in general. I talked about how OSS helped me grow as a self-taught developer and how working on issues from Mattermost’s repos helped me gain experience and confidence in software development. In this article, I will highlight some of the things I talked about and also throw in a few pointers related to working on OSS.