Ok, so you’re ready to break up with Microsoft Teams and you’re committed to transitioning to the wonderful world of Slack. But what shall become of all of the messages, files and history that you’ve invested in that platform? Think of all the knowledge you’ve shared, the memes, the answers…
3 ways to increase productivity and reduce noise in Slack
If you’re like us at Obie.ai, then 90% of your workplace communication occurs in Slack. Living in Slack is kind of the new normal for most modern companies, but things can get out of hand quickly unless you set some ground-rules for fair and constructive use. Here are a few…
Designing your support desk to maximize ticket deflection
Ticket deflection is when a customer service or IT helpdesk ticket is avoided by way of a self-serve help mechanism. This means that an employee will be able to solve their own issue without requiring the intervention of a support professional or a service ticket being created. By allowing your…
Optimizing Slack for support desks to maximize ticket deflection
After surveying hundreds of IT and HR service desks, Spoke found that when employees are given the option, people will submit 70% of their requests through Slack. If you, as an IT Manager, People-ops professional or Customer Support Manager in a Slack-powered organization are surprised by this statistic, it could…
New Year’s Resolutions for IT, Customer Success and People-Ops Managers
Many of us use the changing of the calendar to make positive adjustments in lifestyle. Whether it’s getting more exercise, quitting smoking or making an effort to live life to the fullest, a new year’s resolution is an opportunity to make a change to be the best version of yourself.…
The role of AI in IT Support and Customer Success
Are you seeing a pattern in your customer service calls or at your internal IT help desk? What do those patterns look like? How do these patterns impact your internal and external SLAs? What strategies have you tested to fix the problem? What worked and what didn’t? You might be…
Should you create an internal corporate wiki to store knowledge?
Wiki has emerged as a ubiquitous term for internet-based knowledge. So many people use this as a term to describe knowledge stores across use-cases. Often, the term wiki gets dragged into corporate settings when really it has no place for companies of any material scale. Great for TV series… not…
Fixing Frequently Asked Questions in Slack
A show of hands if you’ve never seen this in your Slack workspace before… Nobody? Shocking… When Slack was born, it was a watershed moment for frequently asked questions just like this. It gave them a new home and IT Managers and Support Teams rejoiced with a nice tidy new…
How to add and remove custom emoji from Slack in 5 seconds flat
Ok, we get it. You’re the expressive type. You need to communicate in your own very special way. Your emotive capacity cannot simply be contained within the confines of a stock emoji set that is shipped with every conversational app ever made. Smiley face? No thanks. Thumbs up? Pulleez. Eggplant?…
Enable support acceleration with Jira Service Desk, Confluence and Slack
A fully-integrated experience for internal support teams to accelerate support, deflect tickets and reduce time to resolution. In the modern workplace, it can be difficult to understand which IT help desk best practices are right for your growing organization. As the adoption of Slack grows, everyone can collaborate and communicate…