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Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#101

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To the parent's point, how do you get a future employee to receive the information in an email that was sent before they started?

You include it in their onboarding

So now you have to store each email that includes important information in a second place, so that you remember to include it in their onboarding. Why not just post it to the intranet in a well-known location in the first place?

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#102
Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago?

We use an internal forum in addition to chat. Anything substantive goes in the forum. We'll regularly reference 5 year old posts.

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You include it in their onboarding

So now you have to store each email that includes important information in a second place, so that you remember to include it in their onboarding. Why not just post it to the intranet in a well-known location in the first place?

Onboarding does not necessarily have to be email. However, let's not conflate onboarding with regular communication.

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#105

Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago? We use an internal forum in addition to chat. Anything substantive goes in the forum. We'll regularly reference 5 year old posts.

Any recommendations for sensible forum software? (self-hosted would be ideal)

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#106

Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago? We use an internal forum in addition to chat. Anything substantive goes in the forum. We'll regularly reference 5 year old posts.

If you can reference 5 year old forum posts why can't you reference 3 year old chat conversations?

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You include it in their onboarding

So now you have to store each email that includes important information in a second place, so that you remember to include it in their onboarding. Why not just post it to the intranet in a well-known location in the first place?

Ideally the information goes where it’s supposed to in your permanent knowledge repo. This could be a wiki, a website, etc.

The email is sent as a notification that the content has been added, updated or moved.

Email should ideally serve as a notification system and a lossy communication system where things you want to retain need to be backed up somewhere else.

The nice thing wth email is that being an open eco system there are a lot of integrations that are supported easily.

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#108

I feel that many of these objections already have solutions within Slack. If you don't want to be disturbed by notifications, there is the Do Not Disturb option to snooze notifications. If you don't want to lose context, use Slack threads, which localize discussion around an issue to a single place. If you have a fear of missing out because you're piping everything to Slack - have you considered segregating your aler…

People enjoy vilifying Slack but like any tool what matters is how you apply it and build structure around it Replace 'Slack' with 'email', 'Skype', anything in these gripes and it all reads the same.

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#109

Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago? We use an internal forum in addition to chat. Anything substantive goes in the forum. We'll regularly reference 5 year old posts.

If you can reference 5 year old forum posts why can't you reference 3 year old chat conversations?

Structured threads vs an unending ticker tape of noise.
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