By the end of this project, you will learn how to enhance organizational communications with Slack, the business communications platform.
Enhance Organizational Communications with Slack
Enhance Organizational Communications with Slack
Instructor: Freedom Learning Group
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2 hours
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Hands-on learning
What you'll learn
Access Slack and create your workspace and review the types of resources available on the platform to enhance organizational communications.
Create your Slack profile and set preferences by thoughtfully considering an effective way to present your value in organizational communications.
Use direct messaging and tag by individual and channel to loop others in on relevant information.
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Learn step-by-step
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Open a free Slack account, create a unique workspace, and familiarize yourself with its layout and review the types of resources available on the platform to enhance organizational communications.
Set availability and status to indicate to others when they can expect to hear from you. Explore strategies to tailor status and notification settings to support productivity and team effectiveness.
Pause notifications and use them to boost productivity. Handle notifications on the fly and discover options for automating what notifications you receive, and how and when you receive them.
Create your Slack profile and set your preferences by thoughtfully considering the most effective way to present yourself and your value in organizational communications.
Flesh out your work environment by defining and creating public and private channels.
Explore more ways to invite others to a workspace and its default channels.
Use direct messaging and connect people in Slack to boost the effectiveness of messaging through strategic use of channel and individual tags.
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Anyone is welcome to take this course!
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Access the tools and resources you need in a pre-configured cloud workspace.
Available only on desktop
This Guided Project is designed for laptops or desktop computers with a reliable Internet connection, not mobile devices.
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AO
4
Reviewed on Jul 19, 2020
With a cheat sheet as a handout this project would be perfect, aside from that everything is good. The videos are very simple. Even a kid can understand them, fore sure
GA
5
Reviewed on Nov 2, 2020
Explains everything one needs to learn and know about Slack before diving into work.
JV
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Reviewed on Mar 13, 2023
Thank you, Tricia! Great video lessons and I appreciate your doing your best to align Slack elements with the lab. Keep up the great work.
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