Slack #️⃣ Discord and how they revolutionised company | community instant messaging
Episode description
Today we take a look at… Slack! Slack revolutionised workplace communications and has even made an impact on community comms; although that space has been dominated by Discord, another app we will be analysing today 😄
— Agenda —
- What are we doing today?
- Why does Slack exist?
- What were the initial Slack Feature Creeps
- Famous Slack alternatives (Microsoft Teams, Discord… Skype?!)
- Top 3 Slack/Discord features!
- New features to take Slack to next level?
——⬇️ BONUS ⬇️——
— HAVE FUN —
No affiliations whatsoever: whenever we show something, you know you're hearing our unfiltered thoughts 😄
— Highlighted software —
Slack: https://slack.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/ Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
Joao’s website: https://jvmartins.com/
Johnny’s website: https://magrippis.com/ Johnny’s other channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jmagrippis
— TIMESTAMPS —
0:00 - Coming up! 1:13 - Intros & Agenda 2:11 - What is Slack, Discord and why do they exist? 4:22 - The World before Slack 7:43 - What were Slack’s OG feature creeps?! 9:46 - João's Slack Top Feature 11:31 - Johnny's Slack Top Feature 14:27 - Apps & Integrations: a common favourite feature of Slack 18:16 - Top Feature: Slack Huddles 22:03 - Top Feature: Themes on Slack 24:25 - Slack Reactions 27:00 - Discord! 32:50 - Inclusivity of Discord & Slack 34:27 - Skype 35:23 - Feature Creeping - Intro 36:07 - Huddle Summariser, Johnny's First Feature Creep 38:58 - Lovability Report 40:53 - Inclusive helper: analyse your language! 44:26 - Algorithmic Slack 47:25 - Feature Creep: Johnny's red button 48:23 - The Bell-air: an IOT device built for hotels 49:55 - Feature Creep: Minority Report Slack, predict & prevent future fails 55:32 - AI Secretary coming soon 57:41 - Recap: Favourite Feature Creeps 59:10 - New & Noteworthy Slack Bots 1:01:00 - Whocan App for Slack 1:04:17 - Outros + LIKE 💜 SUBSCRIBE!