Slack

Slack etiquette

• Transparency

• Over Communicating is always better than working in silos

• Judgment-free communication

• Respect different cultures, races, religions, social environments.

• You don’t need to be available 24/7 just because you work from home

• Learn to work asynchronously

• Praise publicly, critique privately

Slack Gacks:

1. Once you have joined our slack for the first time, it might look a little messy with all the channels in there. Use the categories as shown is the image to keep your slack organized.
Organize your sidebar with custom sections
If you're using Slack on the Standard, Plus, or Enterprise Grid plan, you can sort your channels, direct messages (DMs), and apps into custom sections within your sidebar. This allows you to organize your conversations in ways that are tailored to you - whether they're sorted by projects, teams, or the type of work you're doing.

https://slack.com/help/articles/360043207674-Organize-your-sidebar-with-custom-sections

1. If you need to pause your notifications in Slack to focus or relax, follow these steps:
Do Not Disturb and snooze settings
Notifications can be essential during working hours, but everyone needs downtime: that's why Slack has Do Not Disturb and snooze settings. Setting Do Not Disturb (DND) hours will automatically disable notifications while you're not working, whereas manually snoozing notifications allows you to disable them on the fly.

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/214908388-Do-Not-Disturb-and-snooze-settings

2. For more tips and hacks, have a quick look at this link:
22 Handy Slack Hacks Everyone Should Know
A couple months ago, the HubSpot team made the switch to Slack (one of the hottest real-time messaging apps on the market). Initially, it was hard to get used to uttering phrases like "Just Slack me" or "We were Slacking" in passing.

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/slack-tips

3. If you have a mac, show us what you are listening to on Slack using this app:
waylt.
Broadcast what you're listening to on Spotify to Slack

https://waylt.app/

👮 Channel Rules:

1. Remember to be respectful and refrain from giving negative feedback to anyone publicly. Public shaming causes people to withdraw from their team and work.

2. @here or @channel can be very destructive to everyone’s focus. Remember that using these functions notifies everyone who is online (@here) or everyone on and offline (@channel).

3. Respect the channel's purpose. Sidetracking into random topics makes channels noisy and difficult to follow for anyone that wasn’t reading in real time.

⌛ Tracking Your Hours