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…
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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…
How do I choose the right knowledge base structure for my startup?
The last thing startup founders want to think about is knowledge management. It’s way less exciting than shipping new products and features. It’s way less sexy than perfecting that design and brand. It’s most certainly way less exciting than fundraising and negotiating a term sheet. But, consider these situations that…
Why Slack search isn’t enough for customer success teams
Chances are, your customer success team spends a good amount (probably a majority) of their day in the modern work operating system, Slack. The reason so many teams rely on the Slack platform for this purpose is because it is a tool that enables customer issues to be resolved faster…
How to improve customer support time-to-resolution with an FAQ strategy
Time-to-resolution is one of the most critical metrics that your customer support team can track and manage. This metric measures the average time from opening a ticket to the time it is marked as “resolved”. It is particularly critical to scoring your customer support team performance because it is linked…
Zendesk, Confluence, Google Drive… where is the answer to customer support issues again?
A well equipped and knowledgeable customer support team creates successful, happy customers. To achieve this coveted level of satisfaction, your support team must have access to product and support documentation at their fingertips so that they have the tools to deliver on this goal. As companies scale, this becomes increasingly…
Autumn 2020 Changelog
Well, friends, we’ve been teasing an exciting new FAQ experience for a couple of months now and we’re happy to announce that the next evolution of Obie FAQs is here ! FAQ update includes: The ability to better organize your FAQs for scale Assign FAQs to #channels and groups The…
August 2020 Changelog
It’s been a heads-down month for the Obie team working hard on some search improvements and an exciting new FAQ experience for you (coming soon). Here’s whats new in August 2020: Bug fixes Small fixes to FAQ formatting and resizing We fixed some bugs around channel folder filtering on integrations…
Alternative solutions for FAQ and Q&A in Slack
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and Obie. We wrote this article for the purposes of evaluating these platforms, side by side, in as unbiased a form as we can be. This article is meant to be a helpful resource for organizations who…