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Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack Blog4 days ago6 min read

What a ballet company can teach you about leadership

Teamwork en pointe

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Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogJan 12, 20154 min read

Building the Workplace We Want

We’ve talked a lot internally about the kind of workplace that we want at Slack. Nolan Caudill, our Engineering Chief of Staff, first wrote about the principles and ideas behind these conversations as an internal post for our team — but these thoughts are integral to what we…

Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack Blog5 days ago3 min read

Nine perfectly reasonable reasons to use Emoji in a business context

Keepin’ it 💯 at 🏢

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Ron Flores Del RosarioMar 51 min read

What’s Your Story?

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Blame shows like The Kardashians and its spinoff shows

In a world where image grooming on social media is so rampant, it would be refreshing to see a healthy dose of honesty thrown into all of our narratives again. Things would be much more engaging. We wouldn’t have to keep second guessing filters and instead could…

Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogJun 5, 20154 min read

How a High School Robotics Team Uses Slack

A few weeks ago we got a fascinating email at Slack:

I’m Lauren Egts, a member of The Fighting Unicorns, an all-girls robotics team from Cleveland, Ohio. We competed at the world championships this year and we use Slack to…

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Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogMar 303 min read

How to meet 200 people in 200 days

If you’ve ever joined a company with thousands of employees or experienced rapid growth in a smaller one, you’ve likely run into a set of common problems. Often, it’s hard to remember the names of your entire team, and there will be days you scan the cafeteria and only…

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Chris WetherellMar 122 min read

What Lives On Is Fuel

What seems to live on past life are genes, debts, wealth (if you’re lucky) — or stories: imperfect and decaying…

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Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogNov 25, 20153 min read

How AJ+ is Breaking News with Slack

In a hushed studio, producers lean forward intently, eyes fixed to big screens playing live feeds…

Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogOct 28, 20146 min read

Based on a true story…

You might have seen the video on the home page of our website. It’s pretty funny. And, just like it claims, it really does tell the story of how Sandwich Video got on Slack. Long ago we promised to publish the transcripts of the conversation that lead to the creation of the video. And now…

Slack in Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack BlogNov 5, 20142 min read

Unusually Slacky: Slack for the (mostly) screenless

We hear a lot of interesting stories about the way people use Slack. People sitting in front of screens all over the world are adapting the thing we built in incredible ways we never imagined.