Slack as group mind

Re:Slack as group mind by veli_joza on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:53AM (#17661051)

Great points in article, I was just expecting more than critique of slack. I think slack might be used as efficient group mind by disciplined team. For example, using one channel to strictly stay on topic and keep focused, and another channel for meta-discussion and/or voting for next thing to focus on. Perhaps a third channel for archiving reached decisions, where discussions are not allowed.

If there are such battle-tested practices of efficiently using slack, perhaps they should be distilled to build a better communication tool around them. There's so much potential in collaboration tools that's untapped because everyone takes IRC or Word as baseline and improve on that.

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Re:Slack as group mind by awinter-py on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:31PM (#17668864)

I'm sensitive to the 'disciplined use' approach and have been trying to hear more arguments & examples for how that works.

If you've made the tool work for your team, you should post somewhere. People are out looking for guidance on this.

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Re:Slack as group mind by veli_joza on Thursday August 02, 2018 @07:18AM (#17670617)

Unfortunately I cannot offer guidance as I have yet to experience efficient teamwork with collaboration tools. In last company we used Slack as generic chat client with static channel groups. The current company uses Skype for Business which is the worst chat service in existence.

I have such project in side-projects backlog, I might get to it in few months. It would combine note entry with online collaboration, plus some automation for formal logic / decision making and task scheduling. It would be conceptually similar to 'group mind' as described in this article, except I can only do a prototype and not coorporate-ready tool.

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