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When you work on a team, it's useful to have notifications go to a chat room where you can coordinate any necessary action. Reviewing a comment before publishing, seeing stories as they are written, getting notified of new orders are the kinds of things we like having in a shared room.
While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand your product and service (without your involvement) is even more compelling. There are a number of different ways for your website to help your customers along the purchase process. There are a number of different ways to build a relationship with a potential customer that does not require your involvement.
When you’re running a business, especially a small business, there are a lot of moving parts to pay attention to. Filling orders, staffing, budgeting, sales projections, ordering supplies... all of these are parts that help the business move forward. At Freelock, we are very familiar with the parts surrounding your website. Part of our job is to get that website relevant, sleek, and converting. Once that crucial step is reached, the next step is to engage in successful business with your customers. This is the step where your website starts speaking to your bottom line.
While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand your product and service (without your involvement) is even more compelling. There are a number of different ways for your website to help your customers along the purchase process. There are a number of different ways to build a relationship with a potential customer that does not require your involvement.
In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.
We just added Matrix notifications to an old Icinga server we have, because why not? We love having everything in Matrix...
As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!
!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours
We use Matrix.org with Riot for our chat. If you already have a Matrix account, you can chat with us by joining #lobby:matrix.freelock.com.
Otherwise, you can join us here.
People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.
September 2016
[Update: a few days after I published this, Vector.im rebranded as Riot.im. It's the same project, just a new name...]
In 5,000 years, will anybody be able to read (or even access) things we put online today? Here at the dawn of the information age, we are creating the archetypes that have big implications, possibly for thousands of years. There's a bunch of recent science fiction stories that imagine various futures, written with the perspective of today's web, extrapolating where things might go as humanity evolves.
