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The Slack setting that could have saved Gawker $140 million

By now, it’s old news that Gawker Inc. has been ordered to pay more than 140 million dollars to wrestler Hulk Hogan. No matter how you feel about the verdict, the lawsuit has surprising implications for your team.
 
One of the…

Your Slack Team is Sacred

Slack’s highest level grouping is the Team. Everything in Slack, whether it’s a user, channel, direct message or…

Will you deploy Slack or will your team deploy it without you?

In its first two years, Slack signed up more than two million users, many of them paying more than $80 per year, per user. This is unheard of in the world of enterprise software. It takes most new companies more than twice…

Bot Spotlight: Troops, empower your sales team inside Slack

How Slack helped GE break out of Email Jail

When General Electric CMO Linda Boff wanted to celebrate the launch of a new TV campaign. She didn’t send an email. Instead, she turned to Slack and posted a clip of the ad.

Eight Slack channels every productive organization needs

Your Slack installation is only as good as your channels. Great Slack administrators are constantly looking for ways to create channels that encourage new kinds of conversation.

How IBM is using Slack to persuade software engineers to socialize

Todd Kaplinger has been at IBM as a software engineer for more than 15 years. In that time, he’s been a part of radical re-imagining of the business.