Welcome back. Summer is officially over and it's time to get to work. As always, this week we're brin
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September 12 · Issue #3 · View online |
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Welcome back. Summer is officially over and it’s time to get to work. As always, this week we’re bringing you news and tips from our blog as well as things from around the web you need to see.
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Your team is probably using Slack wrong
Most of the Slack installations we see at slash-hyphen make a big mistake. Instead of focusing on granularity and creating narrowly scoped channels, they create a few channels with too much noise. The slash-hyphen blog has the answer to that noise.
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Prevent your coworkers from bothering you (in Slack)
Slack organizes all of a team’s conversations and opens them up to the rest of an organization. This can fall apart when interlopers from outside a team interrupt conversations to ask questions. We share a strategy for keeping interuptions down on our blog.
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Microsoft is reportedly working on a Slack competitor
If the rumor mill is to be believed, Microsoft is taking Slack head on under the Skype umbrella. This could be a big threat because Skype is bundled with Office365 (which many organizations already pay for).
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Process Street
Process Street helps organizations use checklists to ensure that work gets done consistently and on time. They’re still working on a Slack integration, but it works well on its own in the meantime.
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The 36 chambers (#channels?) of chat — Medium
Adam Zimman shares his playbook for deploying Slack in an organization through Wu-Tang Clan references. We love the way he thinks about which teams in an organization should get Slack first.
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