FYI: What's New in the Front App? Variables in Canned Responses, Improved Salesforce integration, and more...

FYI - Uodate from the Front Team September 30, 2015

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These will be available to you as soon as you refresh your Front app. 1. Attachments in Comments Many times it is necessary to share a document or image with someone, in order to provide more information. We realized that this is not only true for replies, but also for Comments. Now, you can also include attachments in Comments! Simply click on the clip icon on the right side inside the Comment box. 2. Variables in Canned Responses Canned Responses are a great way to more quickly reply to common questions. However, they can sometimes feel a little impersonal. Now, you can personalize these responses using variables. Variables allow you to address the recipient by their first name, include the name of the Sales Rep who you spoke with, and many other pieces of information. Here is a list of the variables available. 3. Improved Salesforce integration We announced our Salesforce integration last week, and we're already adding more functionality to it! Now, besides being able to surface and edit Contact, Lead and Opportunity information, and create a Salesforce Lead from Front, you can also create and edit a Salesforce Task directly within Front.  4. Disable keyboard shortcuts Our keyboard shortcuts allow you quickly trigger an action by pressing a single key. However, for those who don't use keyboard shortcuts, these immediate actions might happen unwillingly, causing frustration. This is why you can now choose to disable them (they are enabled by default). Simply press Command + Shift + P, type "Shortcuts" in the search box, and click on "Toggle Flag: Disable Gmail shortcuts" ([off] = shortcuts enabled, [on] = shortcuts disabled). 5. Improved Trello integration Our Trello integration allows you to easily create a new Trello card or attach a conversation to an already existing one, all within Front. We've added two more capabilities to this useful integration, both for when you create a new card: you can now specify a due date for your card, and all of the Front conversation will be included in the description of the Trello card.  6. Specify default location for downloads (only for Windows desktop app) Some of us prefer to have our downloads saved in a folder other than Downloads. For those who use our Windows desktop app, you can now specify what folder you'd like to use as a default for all your Front downloads. To do so, right-click on the menu bar, and select "Change the download location".  7. We now support Intercom Acquire Many Intercom users find their Live Chat feature, part of the Intercom Acquire package, very useful. We are happy to announce that we now support Intercom Acquire, which means you can add Live Chat as an inbox in Front.  ----------------------------------------- For more info go to http://blog.frontapp.com Front takes out the pain of shared inboxes and enables you to scale your customer support, your hiring, your sales and more. ... No more switching between apps. http://frontapp.com

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Google's Undo Send

FYI July 2, 2015

Can the new Undo Send function in Gmail be a game changer? Small-business owners weigh in with solutions for their worst email faux pas.


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Online Payments and Donations News

FYI iATS Payments News for Non-Profits:

Click here to view this message in a browser window.   iATS Payments News Don't miss our top recent BLOG articles! Integrating Online Payments 3 tips on how to raise more donations 3 tips for improving your nonprofit event website What donors want and how you can deliver 4 tips for building an effective donation program        If you have any questions or want to find out how we can better support you, don't hesitate to reach out to iATS Payments Customer Care. Our dedicated staff can be reached by email at iatscs@iatspayments.com or by phone at 1-888-955-5455.   Sincerely, iATS Payments Our address is 600-1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2, Canada 1-866-300-4287

What is the Meerkat App?

Meerkat - Tweet Live Video App made by Life on Air, Inc.

Meerkat is an iPhone app that allows you to stream live video from your phone. The video can be watched from a web browser but the full social experience takes place while watching the stream from the iPhone app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meerkat-tweet-live-video/id954105918?mt=8

When you push steam a link is created on posted on your Twitter feed  http://mrk.tv/______ .
If your followers have the Meekat app installed they will get a push notification that you have begun live streaming.  You can also schedule a stream and a cue will show up in the app.

Whatever happens on Meerkat also happens on Twitter.  So things you type into the chat are tweeted. Favoriting the feed favorites the tweet that announced the Meerkat stream. 

Ready to Meerkat?

You see the tweet "LIVE NOW" with the #meekat hashtag and short URL to the video stream.

|LIVE NOW| Sunday night at SXSW and team @mattermark is all like... #meerkat http://t.co/NMPMuDRaV0
— Danielle Morrill (@DanielleMorrill) March 16, 2015

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|LIVE NOW| Grilling on the roof. 👅 #meerkat http://t.co/537cyX8eqW
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) March 16, 2015

You click the link and the stream gets grabbed!

Or in your Meerkat app you will see the play icon:

On the app streaming begins:

Then stops....

and begins again...

and goes to audio only...

and begins again .... in out several times.   Especially if the "caster" is moving.

The chat makes it interesting and the sound quality is good.  The stream quality varies probably because of the senders connection.   

You can view on a web browser and smart phones and Android browsers but you can't chat or see the chat stream.   The proportion makes the stream look very low quality too. 

Other Features of Meekat App

Leaderboard with a score.  The score seems like a way to reward you for streaming a clean and interesting video.  It's not clear how it gets added up.

Leaderboard

Meerkat T&C

Meerkat App info from Apple  

Meekat App info from Product Hunt

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FYI: Important Message from Yahoo Small Business Hosting: Required Upgrade to latest WordPress version

FYI:  Yahoo Small Business Hosting: Required Upgrade to latest WordPress version

Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 8:00 AM

Upgrade to WordPress version 4.0 Dear Yahoo Web Hosting Customer, There are possible security issues with the version of WordPress that you are currently using. To prevent any issues you need to upgrade to the latest WordPress version 4.0. This is a mandatory action that must be completed. We will automatically upgrade all WordPress sites to the latest version on April 30, 2015. Additionally, we suggest you take the following actions to further enhance security: 1. Remove the plugins wp-cache, wp-db-backup, which have known security vulnerabilities. 2. Install w3-total-cache and all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall plugins to provide enhanced security for your WordPress site. Please note that if you have custom installations, the upgrade to WordPress 4.0 may cause unexpected changes to your site. It is recommended that you upgrade prior to the deadline to provide yourself adequate time to plan for any potential fixes. The following WordPress article can help you through the process: https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_-_Extended_Instructions While we do provide the technical infrastructure you need to run WordPress (PHP and MySQL), we cannot offer technical support or a warranty as WordPress is an open- source service. If you have questions, please explore our online help center, where you'll find answers to frequently asked questions. If you need further assistance, you can contact us anytime. Sincerely, The Yahoo Small Business team Important Resources: Help |  Contact Us Copyright © 2015 Yahoo. All rights reserved. For general information only.  Contact Yahoo for complete details and procedures about this notice. RefID: 15858

Heroku Enterprise Launch

FYI- Heroku News: 

Heroku Enterprise Launch We're excited to announce the launch of Heroku Enterprise, a new edition of Heroku that combines the core Heroku experience with advanced collaboration features, better access controls, enhanced runtime confidence, and enterprise-grade support that large companies need for their app development. Join our webinar on Thursday March 12 to learn more about Heroku Enterprise, as well as how Heroku customer Align Technology, manufacturers of InvisAlign clear braces, uses our platform to deliver superior customer experiences.   Heroku Connect Demo Edition Launch Heroku Connect now has a free Demo Edition available with just one click from the Heroku Add-ons marketplace. Integrate Heroku apps with Salesforce business processes and data without writing a single line of integration code, using Heroku Connect's easy point and click interface. You can even get started by simply clicking this Heroku Button, which will automatically provision Heroku Connect Demo Edition for you so you can up and running even faster. Ship Code Faster: GitHub Integrations now GA GitHub and Heroku are two technologies made for developers to achieve optimal focus and flow to deliver great software, faster. We're extremely excited about what the recent GA of GitHub integration for Heroku means for users. By connecting your GitHub repo to a Heroku app, you can manually deploy branches from the repo, or you can configure a branch to auto-deploy to the app on every GitHub push. For auto-deploys, you can configure Heroku to wait for continuous integration to pass on GitHub - Heroku will only auto-deploy after all GitHub statuses for that commit have succeeded for that commit have succeeded Heroku Button of the Month Let's Chat is a better way for small, agile teams to chat, built as a self-hosted, persistent messaging app using Node.js and MongoDB. It has cool features like LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support. Deploy it for free with a single click using Heroku Button and your team will have a complete chat solution in minutes! Brought to you by the team at Security Compass.   Customer Focus Lynx Builds Their SmartGrill on Heroku Platform, Wins Innovation Award at CES 2015 Lynx Professional Grills builds premium grills and luxury outdoor kitchens.  When they set out to build a smart and connected grill, they were committed to doing something great. They built intelligence and connectivity directly into the Lynx Smart Grill, allowing a user to choose recipes from the SmartGrill app (available on iOS and Android), set preferences, and then have the grill automatically cook the food. Your steak will be medium rare, your shrimp will be tender, and the roasted vegetables will be perfectly seared. Lynx has a strong predilection for Microsoft technology but they switched to Heroku when they found that performance and reliability were better, and that freeing the dev team of the burden of DevOps (e.g., the overhead of patching and maintaining VMs on Azure for their RabbitMQ server) enabled them to deliver innovative features more quickly. Events Come join Heroku at O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Boston, MA on March 16-19, 2015. Attend Heroku's Engineer Director David Gouldin's talk on "Realtime RESTful: Have your REST and push it too." We also organized an in-depth and interactive workshop "Architecting Applications for Heroku" presented by our Developer Advocate, Matt Creager.  ​ Heroku will be part of Salesforce World Tours in Melbourne, Australia on March 10, 2015 and Amsterdam, Netherlands March 26, 2015.  Heroku is a proud Platinum Sponsor for PyCon in Montreal, Canada on April 8-12, 2015. Come learn about Heroku 101 at a workshop led by David Gouldin. Afterwards, swing by the Heroku booth to chat with Heroku employees, see demos and pick up some cool swag.   Node Wallpaper We printed a special edition Heroku poster for NodeConf, and it was such a hit with attendees that we wanted to share it with newsletter readers (we reformatted it to work as wallpaper for your favorite device). If you're a Node dev or just a fan of Heroku haiku and graphics download the Node wallpaper set.             DEV Center Platform Updates, Maintenance and Notifications Types of system work on the Heroku platform, and the impact of the work on notifications that will be displayed on the Heroku Status site Learn how here. GitHub Integration Heroku integrates with GitHub to make it easy to deploy code living on GitHub to apps running on Heroku. Learn how here. Optimizing Node.js Application Concurrency Guidelines for getting the best performance out of every dyno when running Node.js applications. Learn how here. Using Node.js to Perform JavaScript Optimization for Play and Scala Applications Learn how to configure your project to install Node.js and use it to execute JavaScript optimizations for a Play or Scala project Learn more here. Troubleshooting Node.js Deploys Check out this advice to troubleshoot failed Node.js deploys  Learn more here. Optimizing PHP Application Concurrency Guidelines for getting the best performance out of every dyno when running PHP applications  Learn more here.                   Add-On Spotlight MongoLabs   MongoLab now offers production-ready dedicated replica set plans on Heroku! These fully managed dedicated plans run on dedicated virtual machines (VMs) and offer guaranteed resources (RAM/IO/CPU), SSD-backed disks, and seamless zero-downtime scaling. Learn more at the Check it out today .

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