General

Separating Alert Signals from Notification Overload

On our smart phones, we receive an abundance of personal and business push notifications every day. Business and business-critical push notifications are meant to be read, ideally acknowledged, and acted on in an attentive manner. The problem is that people cannot...

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Get a mobile alert when your Internet link is down

The app-based alerting service SIGNL4, enables you to send alerts from your corporate infrastructure via e-mail or webhook. Your team will then receive the notifications by push, SMS or phone call. But what if the Internet connection is no longer available and you...

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Five SaaS Tools to Optimize Team Productivity

In the digital age, it is extremely helpful to have Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools in place to maximize team productivity. SaaS tools are great because they take essential work tasks, and slim them down into user-friendly web and mobile applications. Below I have...

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Push, text and voice notifications from Google Forms

SIGNL4 offers easy-to-use interfaces for triggering notifications, e.g. email and Webhook. In some scenarios you might want to send signals manually from a Web portal. Google Forms is one option to add this feature to SIGNL4. The following steps show you how to setup...

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Mobile ChatOps built-in

When a critical problem needs attention, advice from peers and experts is often valuable. While a phone call might be the fastest way to communicate, there can be circumstances where it doesn't work or isn't appropriate. That is why we built a chat feature into...

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Android settings for making SIGNL4 an even better paging app

The problem with push notifications as an alarm channel is that they don't really alert you when the phone is set to "Do not disturb". The mobile phone will vibrate only, if at all. Important alarms will be missed. That might turn into a true disaster for critical...

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