We are happy to add a new chat type: the private chat type. Chat owners and users will be able to chat privately in a one-on-one chat.

Since the private chat is different from a group chat, what are actually the differences?

Let’s talk about them here.

What is a private chat?

Private chat is a chat type where users can talk with other users through one-on-one private chats only.

What does this mean for chat owners and users?

This means that the private chat type is only for one on one chats, there is no group chat. It is kind of a mingling chat, where everyone in the chat can talk to anyone.

How does it differ from the group chat?

In a private chat, users won’t have to clutter up the group chat when all they need to contact is one or two members in the chat room.

Rather than using the group chat, you can use the private chat to mingle with others.

Think of it as like the expert’s chat in design, but now you can chat with anyone not just with the admins.

Anyone can start a private 1:1 chat, provided that they are online/signed in to the chat room.

Use the private chat as a social chat

Planning to use your chat as a social chat where anyone can mingle? Then, open your chat to all and enable all log-in options.

When they see your chat and like what they see, then they can log-in through the log-in options that you enable for your chat room.

To open your chat to everyone, here’s what you need to do.

1. Go to Settings > General & Logins.
2. Click Login Options.
3. Tick all the boxes on Social Login Options and Members Login Options.

When you enable that option, anyone will be able to log in to your chat room.

Chat privately with everyone

With the new private chat type, you now have the most secure, flexible way to connect with your chat visitors.

If you’re looking for a new private chat on the market, then try our new private chat type. It’s not only for mingling with others, but you can also use it for private meetings, discussions, and anything that needs security.

Register on the RumbleTalk website to use the private chat.

In a company meeting, engaging your audience is the most important thing to do. Usually, you converse with your team and you forget to “talk” to them.

Talking does not only necessarily mean you give them advice and what to do. You also need to listen. If you don’t, they’ll feel like that their opinion does not matter. You want to avoid that.

So, here’s an advice. Engage in a conversation with them. Show them that you’re listening. Address all the questions that they have. In turn, this will ensure a healthy workplace.

To help you in that area, here’s how you can captivate your audience.

What do you do at a company meeting?

Firstly, let’s talk about the definition of a company meeting. A company meeting is a meeting where you discuss every piece of detail happening in the company. It’s a company-wide gathering, and also called a town hall.

A leader leads the meeting to discuss company matters. Therefore, that’s where the name comes from.

The goals of the company meeting are as follows:

• Share reports or company updates
• Improve business goal alignment around the vision and mission of the company
• Praise hard workers and celebrate milestones
• Answer questions
• Let everyone share a piece of their mind

Host a better Q&A session

This is probably the most important part of a company meeting. Your team will have questions throughout the meeting and after the meeting. You’ll surely want to address those questions. By the end of the meeting, everyone will have raised their concern.

It’s your job to ensure that everyone’s questions are answered. Therefore, here are some tips that you can use for your Q&As.

1. Have an appointed moderator for your Q&A session. Moderators will be the ones to approve messages and choose messages to be answered.
2. Open the Q&A for everyone. Allow anonymous users to join the conversation. Some employees may be shy to ask a question if you know it’s from them.
3. Encourage everyone to ask questions. Before starting your Q&A session, ask your employees to submit questions. Make them feel safe and have a voice.
4. Address all questions, from simple to tough ones. If tough questions are submitted, this means there was a lack of communication. Consider them and clear up all the misunderstandings.
5. Request feedback. Before ending the session, ask for feedback. This will let you know what to improve and what to focus on. This is a powerful tool to know what they’ve learned. You can also answer the follow-up questions if there are any.

Get your own Q&A chat

If you’re having your meeting offline or online, you can use a moderated Q&A chat to address your employees’ questions.

Where to get your own Q&A chat? Let me help you with that.

• Firstly, go to the RumbleTalk website and create an account.
• Secondly, when prompted, choose moderated chat.
• Thirdly, set your moderators on your Users tab. Moderators should have administrator rights.
• Lastly, embed your moderated chat on your website or share your chat’s link when holding your company meeting.

Creating your own moderated Q&A chat has never been this easy. It just takes minutes to set up. You can even use it for other events like conferences, live events, and more.

See how easy that was? Host a better Q&A session and company meeting all-around. So, don’t hesitate to get your own moderated chat.

It’s simple and quick to set up. Have any more questions? You can reach us via Facebook and Twitter. Also, you can contact us via our contact form.

So, that’s it! You can use all the tips above if you’re having trouble engaging your audience on your meeting agenda. However, do spice things up with a little change. Additionally, you can add fun activities to try on your next meetings!

Change your user chat status is now available with the RumbleTalk group chat platform.

Yes, you might have your chat open. However, you might not be active all time. So, instead of letting chatters guess your chat status, why not show if you’re active or not?

This newly added feature lets you show your user chat status in three ways. Let us show you how it works.

Different user chat statuses

In the new feature, you can set your user chat status in three ways.

1. Online
2. Busy
3. Away

Online means that you’re online and can chat anytime. Busy is when you’re willing to chat, but not able to reply immediately. Offline is when you’re not able to reply.

You might have just forgot to log out or something like that. With this, you can notify your chatters whether you’re in the chat or not.

How to change your chat status

In the chat room, you will see the gear icon below. This is the chat settings.

When you click on it, the chat settings will appear. You will see the different chat statuses there.

Choose from online, busy, or away to let your chatters know your status.

This feature is available for the group chat and moderated chat types.

When you change your chat status to away or busy, your chatters will see it when they hover over your name.

Here’s a visual example of how it looks like.

Furthermore, when you change your chat status to away, your chatters won’t be able to send you private messages.

Changing your user chat status

Since we’re all chatting away right now, we might as well use features that are catered to our advantage. By adding this feature, we want to improve your user experience.

On that note, we have updated our knowledge base with new articles and videos. You can check that out if you want to know more about the admin panel, some FAQs, and even tips.

Follow us also on Twitter and Facebook as we post daily about random tidbits, tips and tricks, and useful information you can use in your chat.