Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Ryan Delgrosso
I still think a status page is the answer. Opt all new customers in. Most solutions have opt-out links in the emails. The rest as they say should solve itself. Most status systems can support twitter outputs for the presidentially inclinedthough these days maybe snapchat is a a better

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Well, that's really the question. I assume others are doing it with some success and could tell me what they do. Perhaps just an e-mail twice a year to all the contacts asking them to update themselves. These are customers who can respond to e-mails and click links, but they aren't using RSS,

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Scaling the number of people being notified is important. Though I have no delusions of grandeur and that will still be a small number relative to many other companies. I do not expect to scale the number of notifications, because they are either about outages, which we minimize, or feature

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Alex Balashov
Well, but presumably you're trying to come up with a scalable solution that dimensions to a lot more than that. Half a dozen of almost anything can be handled manually, but perhaps should not be. -- Alex -- Principal, Evariste Systems LLC (www.evaristesys.com) Sent from my Google Nexus.

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Carlos Alvarez
We'd get exactly one subscriber, a 20 year old admin at one company. This wouldn't be a useful thing for our type of customer in general. Perhaps perspective is important, we generate maybe six such events/notifications per year. On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Matthew Crocker

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Matthew Crocker
Set up a status page, configure RSS and let your customers subscribe to the RSS feed. Their responsibility to maintain notifications and they will drop off when they are no longer interested. Or, you could setup a couple twitter handles for notifications and have customers follow them. No

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Alex Balashov
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 01:40:36PM -0700, Carlos Alvarez wrote: > Since we see support tickets arrive from unexpected/new contacts, we know > there must be people who need to know, but we don't know who they are. In the logic of our new system, we designate who the standard "need to know

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Sending notifications is the easy part, lots of services for that. It's the maintenance of who the right contacts is which I find challenging. Since we see support tickets arrive from unexpected/new contacts, we know there must be people who need to know, but we don't know who they are. On Thu,

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Alex Balashov
We're not a VoIP service provider, but we manage infrastructure for them. We're working on an internal OSS solution to streamline this. On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 01:37:12PM -0700, Ryan Delgrosso wrote: > Weve recently starting testing a statuspage internally http://staytus.co/ > and like it

Re: [VoiceOps] How do you update/manage your notification contacts?

2017-06-01 Thread Ryan Delgrosso
Weve recently starting testing a statuspage internally http://staytus.co/ and like it enough we will probably go live with it customer facing. this allows us to have pre-formatted emails for different event classifications, and the users opt in/out on their own. Its fairly extensible being