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How to run a successful planning workshop (even remotely)

Whether you do it quarterly, annually, or even weekly, running a planning workshop can be challenging. You need to make sure everyone understands the big picture and vision. You also need to ensure each person has a voice in the planning process. Finally, you need to lead the group to alignment and verify that they’re clear on next steps. These are the challenges I confronted while leading a goal-setting session at Miro’s recent Executive team offsite (virtual this year).

Twitch Notifications (Part Three): How to Create and Notify a List of Subscribers Using Courier

In this series, I explain how to use Twitch EventSub and Courier to automatically send notifications to multiple destinations – Slack, Discord, and more – when your Twitch stream goes live. In part one, we built a Node.js app using Express.js to accept events from Twitch EventSub. In part two, we listened for our event and triggered a notification using Courier. Now, in part three, we're going to use Courier’s List API to send multiple notifications when our event is triggered.

5 Strategies for Managing the Customer Journey

Digital transformation has transformed the way people interact with brands, software, and making buying decisions. Businesses need to find ways to adapt with these changes and manage the customer journey. Businesses have to continue to provide excellent service and a superior customer experience in these times of transformation. In the case of service-based companies, this requires efficient customer request management.

What Is an Internal Knowledge Base & How To Build One?

Good customer service runs on good information. Agents need to be ready with an instant answer to any question, or the customer will walk away unhappy — even if the eventual resolution is effective. The information shared with customers also needs to be consistent. No one likes to be bounced around between departments that all say something different. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to ensure your agents have accurate information at their fingertips.

How Capture One's Support Team use Geckoboard to provide great service and track launches

Jesper Rosenkrantz, Head of Support at Capture One talks us through using Geckoboard dashboards to help navigate busier product launch periods and bring visibility to the Support team work throughout the rest of the organization.

Monitask dashboard has a new look

Starting February 8th, 2021, we are rolling out an updated Monitask dashboard. We have a lot of new features coming up in the upcoming months but we are kicking things off with a refreshed dashboard. Please note, that most functionality is identical to the old view. We’ve tried to only make cosmetic changes and keep transitioning to a new version simpler for you and your employees.

Why it is important to keep track of project time

Employees could spend more than the allotted time of a project, a time that’s supposed to be well spent on other projects. Needless to say, that, being able to account for time and every tiny bit of detail concerning a project forms the rationale for clients to give you more work. This article focuses on product management, task management, easy organization of your team’s tasks and workload.

Best alternative to Toggl 2021

This web-based tool for tracking time and productivity is available for businesses of different sizes. The tool allows your team to streamline time entries with automated employee time tracking software. This desktop software is an alternative to Hubstaff and is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Employees can record their hours from anywhere with work proof using the desktop app. On the other hand, you can also review their work from a web-based dashboard.

Exchange Online Mail Delivery Outage, February 3rd

Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission critical mail outages. On February 3rd, Microsoft had a mail delivery delay, that caused mail delivery failures and an outage. While CloudReady detected the Exchange Online mail delivery error almost 2 hours in advance, Microsoft did finally publish an incident to track the outage.