2020—What a Year!

‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Vonage News You Can Use [View in Browser]( | [Forward to a Friend]( [A Girl working at her computer]( EDITOR'S NOTE 2020—What a Year! It's fair to say that 2020 has been an outlier—and for us, that's not counting COVID-19! At Vonage, our team has not stopped moving. We've created over 190 new tutorials, had over 1m (1 million!) reads, streamed 134 times, and recorded 22 new videos! One project especially has kept me busy—migrating our WordPress blog to a new platform. It meant improving readability and the writing experience without inhibiting our ability to achieve all those lovely numbers. I've spent a fair amount of this year building out our new [Developer Education platform](. You can read more about the journey in my latest post, [The Great Migration: Migrating From WordPress to Jamstack](. It feels like 2020 has been a constant sprint to the finish, and I’m sure a lot of us are feeling that, too. It's crucial to remind ourselves, whether it's a challenging project, something personal, or a global pandemic, there’s never been a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Here's to 2021, with more content, better health, and a brighter sunrise. [Luke Oliff] Luke Oliff Developer Advocate Vonage [Check out our 2020 content]( [TV guide]( VonageDev TV VonageDev TV Guide Twitch Schedule (Eastern Time): Week.init() Biweekly: Monday at 9 am Explore our Client SDKs and build native applications Lauren Learns Things Every Tuesday at 2 pm Code along with a newbie and an expert to build an app Mistakes Were Made Every Tuesday at 11 am Come and Code along with Michael Jolley Developer Drop-In Every other Wednesday at 10 am Office Hours for developers with our experts The Low-Code Hour Every other Wednesday at 10 am Explore different low-code tools such as NodeRED or Zapier Vonage Gems Biweekly: Wednesday at 6:30 am Ruby language-specific series with Ben Greenberg. New Stream … Who Dis? Every Thursday at 12 pm Ad hoc stream hosted by a variety of hosts from the DevRel team Be sure to FOLLOW [VonageDevs]( on Twitch to never miss a program, and SUBSCRIBE on [YouTube]( for the reruns! [Product News]( PRODUCT NEWS SMS API Customers—Shared Short Code Breaking Change If you are a Vonage SMS API customer using a Shared Short Code for your SMS programs, please note an important breaking change that will become effective March 1, 2021 as a result of the new A2P 10DLC industry standards. If you’re using a Shared Short Code, you must transition to a [new option]( March 1, 2021. If you do not migrate from your shared short code by the deadline, any traffic sent over the shared short code will not be delivered. Please email support@nexmo.com with questions or to start your transition. Voice API Speech Recognition Now in General Availability We’re happy to announce that [Speech Recognition]( (ASR) is now generally available! During the Beta stage, we’ve gathered valuable feedback and have made several improvements. We now have full SDK support for ASR, call ID has become optional, and input type has been added as a NCCO property. [learn more]( [Tutorial]( TUTORIAL Build Tools That Work for You Whether you need advanced video capabilities or a custom chat platform, the latest tutorials on our Developer blog can help you build the tools that work for you. - [How to Send WhatsApp Messages With Laravel]( - [Send SMS Alerts With Zapier, Greenhouse, and Trello]( - [Ban the Trolls! Adding Moderation to the Video API]( - [Receive SMS Delivery Receipts With Go]( - [Translate a Phone Call With Blazor, SignalR, and Azure]( Don’t forget to stop by and [visit us on our Slack channel!]( [Developer Spotlight]( developer spotlight SMS Spam Detection with Machine Learning in Python BY [ABOZE BRAIN JOHN]( Learn how to build an SMS spam-detection web application with Python, using the Flask framework. It will include a machine-learning model that you will train to detect SMS spam. We’ll work with the Vonage SMS API so that you’ll be able to classify SMS messages sent to the phone number you have registered in your Vonage account.[Read tutorial](. [Docs and demos updates]( docs & demos update Go Explore the Vonage APIs with Vonage Go SDK We’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of the [Vonage Go SDK](. We love our developer communities, and it is our mission to make tools that make life easier for them. We know that more and more “gophers” are picking up this excellent Go stack and starting to use our APIs. You can do that from Go directly, but by creating an SDK for you all to try, we hope this will help you get it shipped sooner! [Read more](. Vonage APIs Postman Collection At Vonage, we use OpenAPI to describe all our APIs, and we also make those specifications [publicly available](. One of our favorite things to do with an OpenAPI file we haven’t seen before is to import it into [Postman](. Therefore, we’ve decided to pay it forward and create a [Postman Collection]( for our APIs so that evaluating and exploring them is quicker and easier than ever. In this article, we cover how to make your APIs even more approachable with the power of variables and chaining requests in Postman. [Read more](. [Partner Spotlight ]( PARTNER SPOTLIGHT Partner Spotlight - E-Contact partnered with Vonage to provide our WhatsApp Business API to the Contact Center agents of Ecuador’s largest telephone company. Read the whole story [here](. - Vonage API and Whispir: Fast Tracking Digital Insurance Transformation. Now insurance professionals can discover, understand, and reach more customers with relevance and personalization. [Full story here]( Events Vonage Voyagers Have you heard of Vonage Voyagers? It’s a one-year program for Vonage developers who want to get their hands on new communication technologies first and be part of a groupR of like-minded peers. It’s an opportunity for us to reward and recognise the valuable contributors in our community; those who write or stream content, provide feedback on our documentation, help others on online platforms, and do many other inspiring things. To become a Voyager, you can [apply directly or nominate]( a colleague, friend, or other member of your community The time has come to [meet the inaugural Voyagers crew]( Each week throughout November, we’ve highlighted a group of Voyagers and learned more about them and their interests. [alt_text]( [Find us on Facebook!]( [Find us on Twitter!]( [Find us on Linkedin!]( [Find us on YouTube!]( ©2020 Vonage. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.All rights reserved. 23 Main St., Holmdel, NJ 07733 [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service](