Employers gain a unique opportunity to influence how their newly hired team member’s habits during onboarding. Training new employees to follow internal protocols during those first few critical hours will have a positive effect on productivity. With Slack becoming the operating system of the modern workplace, it makes sense that…
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Top must-have features of AI-powered Slack Bots
As Slack slowly, but surely, challenges (usurps?) email and common word processor productivity suites as the operating system of work, it loses its focus on the core messaging functionality and expands to many more roles. Some of those additional roles are: External messaging (as a secure communication channel for partners…
What to do when your customers ignore your public FAQ page and contact support instead
Offering a self-serve support channel for your customers seems like an obvious deflector of support issues, but sometimes they get ignored, particularly if a customer feels as though their issue is unique enough that it won’t be captured within the realm of the most frequent of frequently asked questions. Whatever…
Top 5 knowledge management challenges that every company faces from startups to enterprise
Managing internal knowledge effectively is a challenge that every company experiences regardless of size. What tends to happen is that the problem is often ignored or tolerated until the company enters a growth stage at which point a knowledge management strategy shows its weaknesses and the foundation begins to crumble.…
How optimizing knowledge format can increase access to information and resolve IT issues automatically
Choosing knowledge formats can dramatically improve self-serve issue resolution. When information is delivered in a sub-optimal format, the support seeker can defer or delegate responsibility when finding an adequate answer takes too long, thereby reducing their own productivity and adding to the IT support team backlog. One strategy that can…
February 2021 Changelog
A little beaver told me the team at Obie has something exciting in the works that’s almost ready for you to get your paws on… I can’t give you a preview of what just yet but I can tell you what’s new for you in February: Lots of FAQ improvements…
The 4 most powerful and important features that your next IT Support desk management tool must have
Its never too early to enable a self-serve internal support channel for your organization, but at some point after many repeated annoyances, the evidence becomes so painfully obvious that you simply cannot deny addressing the need any longer. Refusing self-serve support is both costly and unsustainable in companies the midst…
How to fix an FAQ problem in startups and enterprises by integrating knowledge into common workflows
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are a common productivity inhibitor in organizations of all shapes and sizes. In small companies, the challenges involving repeated questions are surrounding a lack of time, a growing team and a lack of reliable documentation. In enterprises, they struggle with the volume of FAQs, challenges involving…
November 2020 Changelog
Last month, we launched an exciting new FAQ experience to help better organize your FAQs for scale which included the ability to assign non-Obie Administrators verification privileges. With this update, it only made sense to completely re-engineer Obie Content Verification to help ensure knowledge across your organization is up to…
Hawke Media – An Obie Customer Success Story
There are a few common reasons why companies adopt Obie as an internal support tool. Frequently they involve making knowledge more accessible and have closer proximity to the employee’s workflow. In a little more detail, here are some of the scenarios that we support: They are looking to build their…