There comes a period in the growth of a start-up company when emails become stressful, making team communication slow, if not ineffective. Slack, a not-so-new team communication tool, came at an opportune time when social media platforms and even emails are becoming noisy and distracting.
Admittedly, we at Third Team Media use Slack. Even some of our clients, such as the people behind Oceanjet, who are not as exposed to web tools and online channels as we are use Slack and find it user-friendly to communicate with us.
Slack, in a way, became the answer to real questions like “Are you tired of tracing attachments and following up members on email? Are you tired of checking past conversations or looking through the clutter on email just to find the communication recently sent by a co-worker?”
By making it easy for company members to work together on documents that can be seamlessly attached and to converse easily with each other, Slack makes email unimportant for group conversations and team chats more relevant.

Maximizing Slack’s features, here is how we use this team chat app:

• Chat one-on-one with a teammate who is in charge of a special project
• Chat with selected teammates as a group in charge of specific departments, such as Project Management Team (just like what you do on Skype for business)
• Open channels to all teammates, including a #random channel where we put in our eureka moments
• Collaborate together on Google Drive files by discussing and commenting on documents
• Bring in other service providers helping us out on Slack and communicate with them in specified groups or one-on-one chats
• Search contents and conversations
• Integrate it with other services like Google Hangout and Twitter
• Control notifications about other services being used, such as Google Drive, Facebook and Trello

Perhaps the most notable feature of Slack is its “No spam” ability. Spam is frequent on email and can be downright discouraging. Its ability to integrate other services into the team chat app makes life less a hassle by not having to turn on or switch multiple screens. Also, Slack makes following up teammates and calling for meetings easier.
We use Slack as a native desktop application but we also download it as an app for our teammates’ iOS and Android phones.
So far, Slack is helping make communication inside Third Team Media more direct and transparent. This is good for the business since it saves time for more work, reduces stress among teammates and increases productivity and more room for new projects.
Using Slack is an assurance to our clients that we continuously find ways to improve our internal processes for efficient delivery of our services.
To know more about what Third Team Media offers, contact us and avail of our free consultation.