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Meet #botoftheweek, your personal guide for travel Japan! Holiday Inn Osaka Nauba launched Bebot, the first hotel-bot in Japan. Bebot acts as a hotel concierge, provides guests with personal assistance such as booking restaurants, personalized recommendations for activities, and answering questions about hotel facilities and services. It opens a great opportunity for hotels to improve experiences for their guests by learning about them through informal chat log and also save on personnel by automating responses to frequently asked questions in the chatbot. This way, hotels can simply focus on enabling the amazing hotel experiences. So if you are going to visit Japan, make sure you get this bot installed, otherwise you can be rejected to checkin 😂 https://www.newswire.com/news/meet-bebot-japans-first-ai-chatbot-for-hotels-now-available-at-holiday-19590002​

Forward-thinking organizations across financial services are already beginning to use AI to automate tedious processes. But what are the advantages of using chatbots in financial sector? AI chatbots with emotional intelligence can deliver spend analysis and stock advice, assist in opening or closing an account, transfer money, or resolve a credit charge dispute — decreasing costs a lot. A real chance to improve banking business, right? ⌚️ 4 min read (good one) https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/26/financial-services-sector-needs-ai-not-customer-service-for-dummies/

👏 11 good industries for chatbots. Millions of people already use bots. They are using it for entertainment, shopping, scheduling and much more. So there are nearly limitless possibilities for what can be done with chatbots. Tons of industries. But which of them can help you to take more advantages from creating and selling your bot? Have a look at these cool examples featured in Inc. magazine to understand what to build next! ⌚ 3 min read (kinda short) https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/11-interesting-examples-of-how-to-use-chatbots.html

Starting today, Instagram supports a brand new type of ads — conversational ads, otherwise, Messenger bots promotion. Now when user clicks on an Instagram messenger-specific ad, it automatically opens Messenger bot, where he gets a personalized message with content that ad manager previously included in Ads Manager interface. Do you smell the opportunity? 😉 With this new exciting feature you can create a real conversation with end users and automate some business tasks! It’s smart, it’s focused on a specific action, and it doesn’t require humans on the other side. The feature will be rolling out in the next few months, can’t wait to test! 😍 https://medium.com/@flreln/how-to-get-clients-from-messenger-using-new-instagram-ads-22c25d81a057

🤔Why does your bot need a personality? Because we design for humans. Building a rich and detailed personality makes your bot more relatable, believable, and relevant to your users. Here’s a great article on how can you personalise bot conversations to be more life-like, intimate, and representative of human interaction. Must read. ⌚️ 11 min read (quite big, but really useful) https://blog.prototypr.io/a-guide-to-developing-bot-personalities-c6eba213d77b

💬 Twitter is reshaping the customer experience through chatbots! Twitter has recently launched a customizable Direct Message Card that businesses can use to promote and share bots and other customer experiences built in Direct Messages. This new card will help businesses drive discovery of such experiences both through Promoted Tweets and organic sharing. Using a Direct Message Card, businesses can capture people's attention with engaging image or video creatives, and include up to four fully customizable call-to-action buttons. The latest development for Twitter has been introduced after the platform faces rigor competition from alternative advertising apps like Microsoft, Facebook and Google. Seems like Twitter is going huge on chatbots in order to grow their ad revenue. But it’s a good sign for all us to start building something cool on the updated platform 😉 ⌚️ 4 min read (again) https://chatbotsmagazine.com/twitter-adds-chat-bots-to-direct-messages-219e510c0cb6

😮Want to know how to get a million users to your bot? Instant Translator is a great example for you! A very simple bot that was made only to demo bots to corporates has evolved into the biggest translation bot on Facebook. Now it has almost 1 million signed on users on Facebook and 600k monthly active users. Not bad, really? Here's a story behind it, including their growth, features, launch and many more. ⌚️ 4 min read (good read) https://chatbotsmagazine.com/how-instant-translator-bot-got-1-million-users-27089533df32 P.S Feel free to try it on Facebook or Viber and give feedback in our public chat

🚴Do you like cycling? If your answer is yes, you'll like the #botoftheweek too! Bikemap Bot searches 10 routes for cycling next to your location out of our more than 3.2M routes in 80+ countries which were uploaded by users. It helps you to find a perfect cycle route for your next ride. The bot is still in beta but it works pretty stable, UX is super simple and content is regularly updated. Worth trying. Bikemap Bot is available on Messenger now. Try the bot - https://m.me/bikemap

Kik announced plans to launch a new cryptocurrency built on top of the Etherium blockchain called Kin Once it’s up and running, each Kik user will get a Kin wallet and opportunities to earn Kin for being part of the community. The currency can be exchanged for products, goods, and services within the chat app and any others that adopt the currency. To oversee the cryptocurrency — both its administrative core tasks and its growth — Kik also announced the creation of the Kin Foundation. Its presence will provide assurance that people can participate in a Kin economy that is not and can never be monopolized by a giant company. This path leads to a future that is compelling for consumers, and open and fair for developers. ⌚️ 4 min read (good one) https://medium.com/kinfoundation/announcing-kin-a-cryptocurrency-for-an-open-future-98f1da2f498a Learn more about Kin - https://kin.kik.com/

🙌Botanalytics partners with Motion AI! Motion AI is one of the easiest solutions to build, train and deploy chatbots. With the Botanalytics integration, Motion AI users can further observe the experience with information extracted from analytics metrics. If you're a bot developer who uses Motion AI platform, it's a must for you! ⌚️ 3 min read (announcement) https://botanalytics.co/blog/2017/05/23/motion-ai-botanalytics-partner/ Not on Motion AI? Here's a list of all platforms, choose one and enjoy!

Want to Easily Create a FAQ Bot? Try this service from Microsoft! Microsoft has launched a service for businesses to quickly and easily create a FAQ bot customers can chat with inside Bing search results. What's cool here?? The simple creation of a bot based on Bing Places information provides businesses with a less technical way to enhance their online presence. The new bots-for-businesses service is currently only available to restaurants: Bing business bot is already partnering with top restaurants. However, Microsoft expressed an interest in bringing bots to other sectors at Build. I hope it will be soon! ⌚ 2 min read (kinda short) https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/22/microsoft-is-helping-restaurants-cook-up-their-own-bots/

The latest Google Home commercial is just hilarious 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpnxTXILS4s