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Six Quick and Easy Tips for Better Collaboration in Slack

Jan Morrill
UIT Communications

With many of us working from home, more people than ever before are communicating and collaborating in Stanford Slack.  Are you wondering just how much has our usage has spiked? Since COVID-19 policies went into effect last month, more than 4,000 new users have joined Slack. With that, 19,000 community members now use Stanford Slack on a regular basis. 

Move beyond chat

If you’re fairly new to Slack, reading and responding to messages is a good way to learn to navigate the platform. But Slack enables us to communicate with colleagues in more ways than just chat. And its basic features and functionality are simple to learn.  To help you get started, we’ve created this video with six quick and easy ways you can use Slack to enhance your virtual collaboration.

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