Daily updates are a critical tool for fostering alignment, engagement, and trust by keeping team members on the same page. They are a frequent feature in internal communication that can be delivered via email, app notifications, brief meetings, or a platform like tchop(tm). They can include key deadlines and meeting schedules for the day, project updates, or company-wide news. They can also be tailored to different employee groups based on their roles.
When a user invokes your Action and subscribes to daily updates, they receive an Assistant notification at their scheduled time each day. You can offer this subscription prompt mid-conversation or as a suggestion chip, and you can personalize the prompt to make it relevant to each user. If you offer the prompt more than once, make sure you provide users with context about why they should consider subscribing to your daily updates.
Ideally, you want to keep the conversation short after your daily update intent is triggered. Daily updates appear as notifications on a user’s device, so it’s important to follow our best practices for designing useful notifications.
Geekbot makes it easy to configure daily updates. You can set the questions to reoccur automatically each day, choose the broadcast channel (such as Slack), and specify a time of day that respects teammates’ local timezones. You can also enable reminders to ensure teammates remember to answer the questions. Then, you can edit the default answers to be relevant to each teammate’s role.
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