![]() IRC is open, accessible, time-proven and – if used properly – turns X-Factor dropouts into Freddy Mercury and pot noodles into coq au vin. The main point of Marco was that he can not use Slack and it isn’t open, that’s why it is a bad tool to use for team communication. What followed was a quick back and forth on Twitter about the merits of Slack vs. It’s all DIVs and SPANs, monkeys and undergrowth – nothing to guide you. And Slack’s interface is not accessible to screen readers as – despite the fact that it is HTML - there is no semantic value to speak of in it. Except, there is one small niggle: Marco can’t see and uses a screen reader to navigate the web. But when yesterday my friend Tomomi Imura asked if there are any evangelism/developer advocacy Slack groups, I told her I’d started one a few weeks ago and we now have it filling up nicely with interesting people sharing knowledge on a specialist subject matter.Īnd then my friend and ex-colleague Marco Zehe wanted to be part of this. Seeing that I enjoy Slack at work, I set out to consider running a community on my own. ![]() It is a great tool, still frolicking in the first rounds of funding and untainted by a takeover by a large corporation and smothered in ads and “promoted content”. You can pull all kind of features and notifications in. I went through many other “communication tools” that required those.Īnother thing I love about Slack is that it can be extended. You learn it while you use it, not after watching a few hours of video training or paying for a course how to use it. The product gently nudges you towards new functionality and it doesn’t overwhelm you with a “here’s 11452 features that will make your more productive” interface. Slack is full of little gems that make it a great collaboration tool. Flickr was the bomb and one of the most rewarding communities to be part of. I have a soft spot for the team behind it and I know the beauty they are capable of. Here’s the thing though: I really like Slack. But Slack seemed cool and amazing much like BaseCamp used to. Of course we have the normal communication channels like email, video calls, phones, smoke signs, flag semaphore and clandestinely tapped Morse code stating “please let it end!” during meetings. When I joined my current company last year, we introduced Slack as the tool to communicate with each other.
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