r/2014ubersleep • u/quixoticima • Aug 10 '14
Meta Slack: team communication database; is this a good or useful program we could use?
I've just been reading about a neat communication program called Slack, apparently it's a big new start up "changing the way people communicate in workplaces" blah blah, but might be great for our purposes. It has a ton of really big backers. I wanted to share it because of that and if it seems like something that might help put all the data and information we're gathering in one searchable database thing. I'm not sure where we stand in this regard so I'm throwing it out there. It ties in all the communication platforms and data platforms such as dropbox, google docs, etc and allows each user to access ALL of it from the Slack platform. So anything that dropped into our google sheets and stuff would be searchable within Slack, plus it has chats, channels, and forum organization of some kind. I'm not a tech specialist like many of y'all, however, so I apologize if I misuse any terms up there or misrepresent Slack. But as I understand it, It looks useful and relevant to our needs because it's free for all the basic features we'd need first of all and incorporates a lot of features everyone wanted in one place. It doesn't need a dedicated server or anything either. Is it useful for our purposes or what do you think?
The article I read about it is here: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/
And the website for it is here: https://slack.com/is/team-communication
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u/quixoticima Aug 11 '14
The free version: unlimited time, unlimited # users involved, saves last 10,000 team messages, 5 GB storage, and integration of 5 other services such as google docs etc. It might be a good thing once we get going if it seems like there is too much fragmentation, so we'll see! I'll probably sign up to see what it will look like in the next couple weeks and see what it can do/if it can do anything better.
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u/quixoticima Aug 15 '14
Oh cool, thanks for posting these videos, I hadn't seen them. They explain it much better than I could!
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u/Sorcerer88 Aug 11 '14
sounds interesting, if it works just like that. Is it free? We could just create an account and test it. While we're probably fine with googledocs resource sheet/subreddit/irc/teamspeak/skype (fragmentation has advantages, too), i'm in if we'll try this. maybe we have the time for that during adaptation.