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Release notes 🚀

Angie Kwan

Nov 6, 2024 1:06 PM

Release notes are now on the website!

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See release notes

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October 18, 2024

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Features & improvements

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September 24, 2024

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Registration cutoff improvements

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All guests will now remain in your event after registration cutoff, instead of being removed if they're not registered. We've added a few improvements, like showing the registration cutoff time on the insights page.

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Account settings

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We refreshed our account settings page, which now shows the location field that's coming in from the employee directory! Control your notification settings and profile photo all in one place.

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September 11, 2024

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Insights dashboard

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Instant analytics and reporting for any admin, team, or office. Drill down into metrics to understand employee engagement, ROI, and actionable insights to host better events and share impact with stakeholders. Learn more

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Multi-session registration improvements

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For employees, they can choose which sessions they want to register for instead of opting into all of them. For admins, you can now limit registration to just 1 session. Learn more

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Remove duplicate notifications

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To reduce noise from notifications, we’re removing Slack and email notifications for calendar RSVPs and email notifications for Slack RSVPs. Learn more

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Split large events into multiple calendar events

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To reduce calendar syncing issues, we'll split the guest list across identical calendar events when there are more than 1,000 guests. This update also fixes errors when inviting a large number of guests. Learn more

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August 26, 2024

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August 16, 2024

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Choose date & time or relative time

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You now have the flexibility to schedule reminders and feedback forms on a specific date and time, or a relative time that automatically adjusts to the event's time.

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July 31, 2024

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Compare summary metrics

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See comparisons to the previous period for summary metrics in Insights.

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July 19, 2024

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July 12, 2024

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Insights dashboard (beta)

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Instant analytics and reporting for any admin, team, or office.

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Drill down into metrics to understand the key drivers behind employee engagement and ROI. Get actionable insights and share the impact of events and programs with stakeholders.

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July 8, 2024

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Automatic hyperlinks for survey questions

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We love shipping quality-of-life improvements: When you  include a link in your survey question, Epoch will automatically detect it as a URL and hyperlink it. Now, employees can access it in one click.

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June 28, 2024

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AI for event description and feedback summaries

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Use AI to get an event description suggestion from scratch or refine a draft that you’ve written. Summarize feedback into recurring themes and sentiments in just a few seconds. Learn more

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Check-in for all events and estimated attendees

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You can now track who showed up for all in-person, virtual, and hybrid events! If you're short on resources to use check-in or importing data from other conferencing platforms, enter an estimated number of attendees. Learn more

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Notification settings page

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Control whether you get each notification through Slack or email. Quickly turn off all notifications from Slack, email, or both channels. Learn more

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May 30, 2024

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Event page refresh

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We gave our event page a complete makeover! Just to name a few exciting changes: a more robust and informative RSVP experience, seeing the event organizer and office, simplifying the guest list, and much more.

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Simplified cover photos

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No more worrying about making photo look pretty in 3 different ways – all cover photos will now be a square! We've also smoothed out the cover photo experience, from making sure the original photo can still be cropped and aspect ratio is maintained on different devices. Learn more

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Show RSVP on event cards

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Ever browsing the Discover page and not sure if you've already RSVPed to an event? Now, we'll show your current RSVP on the event card so you don't need to click in and out just to check.

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Auto-decline notifications

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When we see that a guest RSVPs as not going for your event and there's an auto-decline note from Google and Outlook Calendar, we'll send custom notifications to alert the guest that they might've unintentionally declined.

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March 28, 2024

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Event organizer

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We simplified designating an event organizer – no more manually entering a contact person or reply-to email for reminders. Select any employee from your company as the default reply-to email for all communications.

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The event organizer's information will also be shown on the event page soon.

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Office

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We made improvements to the office field. Office is now in the "Details" section to make it more clear that it’s not a location.

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Selecting an office helps employees search for events (you can now see it on event cards on the Discover page!) and groups data for reporting.

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February 29, 2024

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Slack "Home" page

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We added a "Home" page to our Slackbot app. Employees can learn about Epoch right in the tools they're already in. They can also get quick access to important links, like the Help Center or contacting our support team.

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Event information in CSV

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We added the event name and event start time as columns to the guest list CSV. This will make it easier for you to consolidate data across different events, without losing track of which event a guest belongs to. If you don't need them, simply delete!

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February 14, 2024

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Busy or free

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You can now choose to make your events busy or free on both Google and Outlook Calendar! Making an event free is especially helpful for events that don't require guests to attend the entire time, like a drop-in lunch.

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January 30, 2024

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Slack channels

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We've upgraded our Slack integration! We experienced issues where s o me Slack channels wouldn't appear when you're trying to select a channel for an event or announcement.

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Now, you can search for any channel in your company. If you're searching for a private channel and it doesn't show up, make sure to add our Epoch Slackbot to the channel first.

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Inline images (Outlook only)

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You can now add images to your event descriptions.

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Images will be synced across the Epoch event page and Outlook Calendar event.

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January 17, 2024

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December 22, 2023

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December 14, 2023

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Menu dropdowns

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We polished up our menu dropdowns across the entire platform. We made them a bit more compact, made sure they show up in the right spot, and added new icons to help you speed up your workflows.

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December 4, 2023

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Synced distrolists

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When you add members to a distrolist, they'll be automatically invited to all upcoming events that the distrolist is part of.

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When you remove members from a distrolist, they'll be automatically removed from all upcoming events that the distrolist is part of.

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Target attendance

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When you're creating events, you can now input the number of guests you're hoping will attend your event in order to consider it a success.

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This number will be used to calculate attendance rate, which is the number of people who actually attended compared to your target.

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Categories

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There used to be "Tags" and "Types", and now they're finally called the same thing: "Categories."

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Use categories to improve event content discovery and reporting insights with more segmentation.

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November 16, 2023

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Engagement metrics

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When collecting feedback, you can now use a standardized set of questions for analyzing engagement metrics across events.

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Crafted based on industry best practices, track metrics like Net Promoter ScoreÂŽ, satisfaction, connection, and retention to boost employee engagement.

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November 9, 2023

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Linear scale

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Linear scale questions let your guests express their feelings on a numbered scale.

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Easy to understand and quick to use, it’s a great way to collect feedback on ratings, sentiment, and more.

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Anonymity settings

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You can now choose to make your feedback forms anonymous or not anonymous! Employees will be informed on whether their name is being shared or not with the event or content organizer.

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For non-anonymous feedback forms, you'll be able to see name, email, location, and department data in the CSV download.

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October 17, 2023

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Multi-session events ‍

Create an event series that employees can register for in one click.

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Set up offsites, onboarding programs, training sessions, and more.Simplify creating sessions, sending comms and surveys, and tracking registrations and attendance all on one page.

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October 6, 2023

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Teams filter

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Events are more discoverable with a brand new "Teams" filter on the Discover page.

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September 20, 2023

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Estimated spend

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Estimated spend is an amount you can enter for any event on Epoch.

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Spend data can be aggregated across teams, offices, event categories, and more so you can understand ROI.

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September 19, 2023

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Features & improvements

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September 6, 2023

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Confirmations by platform

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The "confirmations by platform" section on the insights page allows you to see which platforms are generating the most event confirmations from employees.

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Get the insights you need to know which channels you should target to boost confirmations for future events.

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Targeted reminders

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Target who you want to send the reminders to. Choose guests based on their RSVP status, which means you can nudge invited guests to RSVP.

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You can also now schedule reminders relative to the event’s start time. This means your comms will automatically reschedule if you change the start time!

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August 14, 2023

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August 2, 2023

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In-person check-in

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You can now track who showed up for your in-person and hybrid events!

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We’ve launched 2 ways to track attendance: admins can check off employees’ names on the event's insights page, or employees can self check in through Slack and email.

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In combination with our Zoom integration, you can now get a full picture of attendance across all your events. Learn more about how it all works in our in-person check-in article.

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July 26, 2023

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Email reminders

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We refreshed our email reminders, just like Slack! You can now see which reminders have been scheduled and sent, the time zone formatting is consistent, and we added input field labels to make the experience more clear.

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CSV updates

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We're always committed to providing you more data. We updated our guest list CSV to show you whether guests were invited by an admin or if they discovered the event on their own. We also now permanently show a guest's most recent RSVP status instead of replacing it with an attended status. You can see if a guest attended an event by checking the attendance type and source.

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July 12, 2023

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Registration cutoff

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Registration cutoff prevents employees from confirming into your event after a set date and time. This is a great feature to use if your event requires pre-work, ordering supplies, or booking logistics. You can finalize headcount and plan appropriately for your events.

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To learn more about how to set up registration cutoff, read our registration cutoff article.

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Slack reminders

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We refreshed our Slack reminders! You can now see which reminders have been scheduled and sent, the time zone formatting is consistent, you can organize your reminders internally with a title, and we updated our Slack formatting tips to give you a cleaner experience.

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Event cards

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We also cleaned up our event cards! You can now see the total number of guests confirmed for the event, event location is displayed consistently, and the design is more accessible.

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June 27, 2023

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Archive modal

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When archiving events, we added a warning to make sure events aren't being cancelled by accident. This also lets you know exactly what happens when you archive an event.

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Event duplication

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Duplicating an event didn't copy over all the fields, and that's an oversight on our part! We heard your feedback and made sure that you get a carbon copy. Start and end time, contact person name, contact person email, turning on guests for public events, admin check-in settings, self check-in settings, and Slack channel settings duplicate correctly.

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June 13, 2023

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May 30, 2023

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Customize the name for "Content"

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You can now change the name for "Content" across the platform! Some common requests we've heard include "Recordings" and "Podcasts." This will appear in the dashboard sidebar, dashboard title, and Discover page tab.

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To learn more about how to set it all up, read here.

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Large events on calendar

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We've found that calendar events with more than 2,000 guests often experience issues with syncing data between calendar and Epoch that's out of our control. To be proactive about these issues, we disable the ability to create calendar events and send calendar invitations to invited guests.

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To learn more about this limitation, read here.

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May 15, 2023

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Date filter

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Employees can now filter events based on a date or date range. We're making event discoverability across the company even easier than before!

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Slack notification for event cancellations

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Now, guests will be notified through Slack if you archive an event. This can help clear up any confusions about whether guests should attend an event, especially if they don't check their email.

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Profile photos

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We've updated our default profile photos for employees who don't upload one. They're visually cleaner and show employees' initials, which can make skimming a bit easier if you're trying to see if your friends will be there.

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May 10, 2023

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Control event update notifications

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We know it’s top of mind to not spam employees with notifications, especially when you want to edit an event silently.

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Now, you can choose if you want to send update notifications from Google Calendar and Slack. We pushed a quality-of-life update for employees too: their questionnaire responses will be restored automatically when they confirm back into an event that had a start time change.

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Learn more about how it all works in our update notifications article.

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May 1, 2023

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Merged confirmation and questionnaire requests

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We know it's top of mind to not spam employees with too many comms. Now, when a user confirms to an event through calendar and the event has a questionnaire, they'll receive one consolidated email and Slack message to fill out the questionnaire.

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April 18, 2023

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Edit surveys in Slack

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Guests can now edit their questionnaire and feedback form responses directly in Slack! Once a survey is submitted, guests will see an Edit questionnaire button on the next Slack message. Guests can also see and reference their previous responses.

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Restore questionnaires when start time is changed

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If you changed the start time of your event, guests had to fill out the questionnaire all over again if they confirmed back into the event. Now, their questionnaires will be automatically restored! Guests can still edit their responses on Slack and the Epoch event page.

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April 6, 2023

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March 24, 2023

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Communications dashboard

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Promotions is now communications. This dashboard is your home for all things communications as we build out more features for you, like announcements that aren’t tied to an event.

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Deprecated calendar promotions

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We’re removing calendar promotions to simplify the experience, because inviting guests to your events do the same thing! Don’t worry – any previously scheduled calendar promotions will still send, but you won’t be able to edit or delete them.

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To add employees to a calendar invitation, simply invite them to the event and turn on calendar invitations.

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Status column

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You can now see the publishing status of your events on the dashboard! Published events means all changes are live. Saved events are also live, but there are some saved changes that haven't been published and made live yet.

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March 6, 2023

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Outlook Calendar integration

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Our beta for Outlook Calendar integration is here! We've expanded our suite of integrations to include Outlook Calendar for a more seamless and integrated experience.

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As an admin, you’ll see Epoch events created in your personal calendar. We’ll automatically sync invitations, guests, and event updates with Outlook Calendar. To learn more about our beta launches, see our beta features page.

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March 2, 2023

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"Interested" is now "Maybe"

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We heard your feedback: it wasn't clear what it meant to be Interested in an event. We've changed the terminology across our platform to Maybe and added pop-ups before an employee confirms their status.

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February 16, 2023

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Send invitations for content

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You can now send Slack invitations to let employees know that they've been invited to view content! The automated Slack message will link directly to the content page where they can access the link and provide feedback.

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February 8, 2023

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February 1, 2023

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Choose to send invitations

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You can now choose whether you want to send Slack and calendar invitations to guests. This is a great way to avoid spamming employees if you're creating multiple options for the same event. Employees will only receive calendar invitations when they confirm.

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January 12, 2023

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December 21, 2022

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Email templates

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We refreshed our automated email templates! There's a bigger focus on the event cover photo, formatting is consistent across all emails, and there's clear and concise copy to indicate RSVP status. We also added a direct link to contact our support team in the email footer.

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