There’s a new feature that you have to check out! Edit messages in the chat room once you send them. This feature is available for all users: admins, non-admins, and guest users.
Why do you need this new feature?
Our customers have been asking us to add this feature since last year. Now, we’ve added this feature to improve user experience. Users weren’t able to edit their messages when they were already sent. Now, with just a click, they can edit messages without the need to delete the previous message.
How to edit messages in the chat room?
To edit your own sent messages, you need to do the following.
Log in to the chat room.
Type a message and send it.
After sending a message, click the button beside the message you sent (in some skins, you should hover over the message in order to see it).
Click Edit.
Type your new message.
Previously, you cannot edit sent messages. Therefore, you had to send one again or delete the previously sent message if you wanted to add additional information. With this new feature, you can just click the edit button and rewrite your message.
NOTE: For now, this feature is only available for beta users. Contact support (via the admin panel) if you want to gain access.
New features coming
Since RumbleTalk started, we are continuously improving our platform. From improving the user interface and experience to adding more plugins to our array, we’re working towards the betterment of our service.
You can see our current features here. To request a feature that you’d like to see or if you’re experiencing bugs, you may contact our support team via support@rumbletalk.com.
Not yet a RumbleTalk customer? Sign up on our website for a new account and try the chat platform for free!
We just recently released an easier way to personalize your chat design. It’s an upgraded version of the Visual Design tab, now called Quick Design. This new customization tab allows you to change the look and feel of your chat room in a simpler, toggle-and-click interface.
With this new feature, customers can change their chat design to suit their tastes and preferences. This allows them to fully customize the look and feel of their live chat rooms. So, no matter who’s talking to them, they always have the feeling of talking with people from their own community, virtual event, or business. Let’s take a closer look at how this works!
NOTE: This is currently available for beta users only. Please contact us if you want access.
Quick Design: The new chat design
There are 12 customization options that you can find in the Quick Design tab. The tool is designed with ease and convenience in mind. Here, you can choose your theme edge, adjust your icon, background color, font sizes, buttons, and more.
Quick Design is all about experimenting. Click in any option to check what it looks like before you apply it permanently. If you want to start over, just hit the Restore Default Settings button at the bottom of the Quick Design panel. This will bring you back to the default setting.
A walkthrough of how each of the 12 customization options works
1. General
Choose whether you want to show or hide the Users List for all users, or for admins only.
You can also choose to enable the Private Chat for all users, meaning, anyone from the user list can start a private conversation with anyone in the chat room. If you enable For admins only, only the administrators will be able to start a private conversation with anyone in the chat room.
2. Theme Edges
Change the edge of your chat room, you can choose from a square or rounded edge.
3. Default Icons
Change the look of users’ and admin’s icons.
4. User and Admin Text Colors
Change the color of users’ and admins’ messages.
5. Spaces
Adjust the spaces between the text to make it more readable for you and your chatters.
6. Opacity and Background Colors
Change the opacity and background colors of the different elements in your chat room – Users List, Chat Area, Text Area, Private Chat, and Dialog.
7. Button Text
Change the text when someone logs in as a guest or uses their username.
8 . Message Bubble Type
Change the look of your message bubble, either square or rounded.
9. Message Color
Change the background and font color of the messages.
10. Users List
Choose what elements you want to be shown in the chat room: Pin Button, Menu Button, and Logout Button.
11. User List
Choose what elements you want to be shown in the chat room: Search Button, and the number of viewers/speakers.
12. Message Bubble
Change the settings of the following: Start a message in the same line and Time Stamp Format.
Personalize every experience with a fully customized chat design
With our latest update, you can now add personal touches to your chat design and make them truly unique to you and your brand. With additional pre-made themes and brand-new toggle-and-click design options, the Design Panel has everything you need to personalize your chat in no time.
As of now, this update is only available for all RumbleTalk beta users. If you want to get access to this feature, email our Support Team at support@rumbletalk.com.
Chat rooms are one of the oldest online communities. They predate email servers, multiplayer games, bulletin boards, commercial online services, and social networks. They started humble, but over time they became places for people to share information and connect with others who share their interests such as employee engagement.
Chat rooms stand out from other instant messaging programs because they allow for communication between multiple people and now, employee engagement.
Fast forward to an even more distant future and chat rooms will just be one of many digital tools that businesses use.
What’s different now?
Despite chat rooms being around for a long time, the technology has only recently evolved significantly. Companies who use RumbleTalk express that the software allows for video calls, exchanging documents, and most significantly, sharing gifs and reactions.
The technology is beneficial for all parts of their jobs including the less formal “hey, I have a quick question” meetings, client check-ins, and new business pitches. At the core of chat technology, groups prefer conducting conversations online.
But today, with “channels,” or rooms that users can create or delete as needed, workers can schedule and join online meetings with dial-in audio conferencing that has high-definition and VoIP capability (voice over internet protocol, which allows voice calls over the internet).
This technology also allows for file sharing. Users who don’t see information in real-time can review it later in recorded transcripts. Some products have advanced features, such as dedicated phone numbers for making and receiving calls to users outside of the software.
For instance, our company manages a team of 20 people globally. The ability to do morning check-ins and interact with team members across the globe is very handy.
Around half of the workers believe that communication apps help them be more efficient
Do work chat platforms make you more or less productive?
A majority of millennials (42%) believe that workplace chat platforms increase productivity.
34% of employees said they would be more productive if they uninstalled their current work chat platform.
Many tech companies have created platforms designed to promote collaboration and employee engagement in the workplace.
According to managers, many seem to think they’re doing their job. About 40% of managers believed work chat communication platforms made them more productive, with senior managers believing they had the most positive effect.
Entry-level employees were more likely to describe work chat platforms as bad for productivity.
Only 29% of employees overall felt work chat platforms generally decreased productivity.
What is motivating today’s technology?
Technology has created a problem of constant “noise,” where workers feel they need to be tied to their email, text, and voice messages around the clock. Experts say that this problem can only be fixed by technology.
Several experts believe that a communication tool that encourages workers to disconnect may be essential. This refers to features such as disabling notifications.
The technology allows users to still share information in real-time but can ignore private messaging and other distractions when they need to be completely focused.
Use chat rooms correctly to boost employee engagement
Incorporating social communication technology in the workplace starts with good intentions. The goal is to facilitate quick, efficient, and concise communication between co-workers that help increase productivity and employee morale.
As with any other social platform, conversations can quickly veer off-topic and end up as nothing more than a distraction.
Proper use of the platforms and keeping nonwork-related channels and threads to a minimum is crucial for minimizing distractions. Choosing the right software can also mean decreased productivity and increased collaboration.
At RumbleTalk, we work hard to create a productive and collaborative environment, free from distractions. Our chat room is designed to improve connectivity and employee engagement, so your team can succeed.
To learn more about how our products can transform your workplace, contact us today.
