Why Creatives Should Slack
Last week, we dished out our most ridiculous client feedback. While there are occasionally those clients not worth pulling your hair out and causing premature balding, we believe most problems boil down to poor communication. Even though good communication between you and your client is important, it is paramount between you and your team, which is why we’ve started Slacking.
Slack combines email, instant messaging, file sharing and more into one platform that’s fun and simple to use. Instead of just using email where team communications mix with random messages from friends, clients, and the latest YouTube video, you can now keep it all separate. Added bonus, searching for keywords in conversations has never been smoother and it fully integrates with your phone.
Convinced? Here’s 5 steps to get started:
- Go to https://slack.com/create#email to create your account and your team name
2. Once you’ve created the Slack team, send out email invites to your team members to sign up and join
3. Now that your team has arrived, create only necessary channels to keep discussions focused and segmented
4. Use Slack for all your relevant conversations, file sharing, action plans and decisions within the team. It’s all incredibly easy to find. After typing a few keywords into the search you’ll find everything you need including what’s for lunch.
5. Download Slack everywhere from your computer to your phone. There’s a desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Beta Linux as well as mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Beta Windows Phone.
Note: Although Slack works without a VPN, using one improves the speed.
Tell us your thoughts about Slack and if you’ve been Slacking before it was cool. In this year’s design survey powered by Typeform, Slack was the all-time favourite tool for project management.
Next week we’re revealing the most useful skill and how to start honing it, add us so you’ll get notified when we post.
