Teams Using Slack

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by Monochron

If anyone cares to, could they explain how using Slack is better than "long email chains"? I have seen that said a couple of times but don't know what differences would give Slack an advantage.

You can replace a decent number of those long email chains with an app like SimplePoll in Slack- you can quickly ask a question and people just have to click on an answer. For example, I've used it to find the best date to schedule a meeting and to get an idea of who would be interested in an event. So you can really condense and organize those responses and filter out the "Reply-all" notifications and mess while still keeping everyone in the loop.

Text responses are a lot easier to see, too. Instead of people adding different bits to the subject line ("Re:Fwd:RE:re:FWD...") and adding in all of their signatures and generally making a mess, you just have a name and a response.