Everyone in the entire world loves Slack, obviously.
The increasingly ubiquitous chat app has taken over the business and media world, with organizations as diverse as eBay, Sony, Yelp, the New York Times and SitePoint (who?) hooked into the plaid-patterned platform. Slack has been valued at about US $2.8 billion, which is a lot of moneybag emojis but probably only one rocket ship emoji.
It’s interesting how different organizations have adapted Slack for their own purposes. What sorts of social conventions have they developed? What kinds of integrations have they integrated? What ridiculous emoji have they created? Once you start reading about this stuff, it can become quite addictive, as every new tidbit is something that may save you a bunch of time.
A few weeks ago we outlined how 6 organizations use Slack, which gave a bunch of practical ideas. I’ve also been publishing regular snippets of amusing conversations from our Slack channels to our Medium publication. But now, let’s move past the quips and puns and take a look at how we use Slack to make working life easier/better.
Dev Integrations
Like any other web company, our devs use Slack to centralize notifications from various other services, including GitHub, BuildBot, and AirBrake. Unlike some other organizations, Slack is mainly used to provide awareness, rather than acting as a place to deploy code or run services.
Where’s Wally?
Like most organizations who care about the sanity of their employees, we’re keen on letting people work from home whenever they like if that’s what works for them. The only potential wrinkle in that policy is when other, at-work people, who are organizing meetings and such, aren’t aware that their compatriots are away. To try to combat this, we’ve set up a channel where work-from-home-ers can check in to update people on their movements, so people’s expectations for replies etc are catered to.
Continue reading %How SitePoint Uses Slack%
by Adam Roberts via SitePoint
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