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Notifications and customer engagement, from transactional sends to multi-channel orchestration.

Sending Interactive Emails Built With Parcel
For our October 21st Courier Live, Avi Goldman joined me to talk about building Interactive Emails using Parcel.

Exploring the Brand New Courier Lists API Using Postman
For our October 14th Courier Live, Arlemi Turpault joined me to talk about using the Courier API with Postman. Postman is a collaborative platform for API development. Together we walked through our existing Courier Collection on the Postman API Network. We then explored updating and using it with our new Lists API.

Sending Notifications via Microsoft Teams
Tony Nguyen from our engineering team returned to help me send my first notification using Microsoft Teams during our October 7th Courier Live. Together we navigated spinning up a bot application in Microsoft Azure and connected it to the Microsoft Teams integration in Courier. After updating an existing notification to include a Microsoft Teams channel, we attempted to send the notification to a channel and as a proactive message to a user.

Introducing the Lists API: Notify Lists of Users With One API Call
Courier’s Lists API lets you create lists, subscribe recipient profiles, then notify every user on the list with a single Send API call.

Announcing Courier's $10M Series A
We're excited to announce that Courier has raised a $10.1M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Matrix Partners, Twilio, Slack, Y Combinator, and many great angel investors. This follows a previously unannounced $2.3M seed round that we raised last summer.

Controlling IoT using the Webhook Provider
Riley Napier from our engineering team returned for our September 2nd Courier Live. Together we used the Courier Webhook Provider to send a notification using an unconventional channel, a BlinkStick Square.

Getting the Most out of Courier Logs
During our August 19th Courier Live, Tony Nguyen from our engineering team joined me to talk about my favorite Courier feature, the logs. We presented a high level overview of the logs and dove into the details of each timeline event in the Courier Application. We then covered how you could retrieve the same information using the Messages API.

Onboarding as a Software Engineer During Lockdown Due to Covid-19
Tony's first week at Courier, which coincided with the first week of the Covid-19 lockdown in San Francisco.

No Code Notifications powered by Segment
Danny Douglass from our engineering team joined me for our August 12th Courier Live. We discussed a No Code approach to sending notifications using Courier as a Segment destination. It took less than 30 minutes from setup to sending our first notification.