The Potential Power of Team Chat

Team chat platforms have exploded in many industries as institutions try to maximize the collaboration and communication potential of digital platforms. From Slack to Rocket.Chat and everything in between, team chat platforms enable organizations to maximize the potential of their people while attempting to minimize the reliance on email. This session gives an overview of various team chat platforms, talks through some of the common functions of team chat platforms, and demonstrate some potential uses in education, business, and even the church.

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1. THE POTENTIAL POWER OF TEAM CHAT Session 2.7M
2. SLACKING OFF Session 2.7M
3. Hi, I’m Bob Martens!
4. TEAM CHAT What is it? What can we do with it? Examples?
5. WHAT IS TEAM CHAT?
6. “ Team Chat platforms combine aspects of many different types of chat and instant messaging applications. -Me
7. WHAT IS TEAM CHAT? ➤ Usually centralized ➤ Can be both hosted/cloud-based and self-hosted ➤ Both open source and proprietary ➤ Usually includes access from many different platforms (mobile, desktop, etc.) ➤ Many different models for organization of topics and discussions ➤ Meant to increase the collaboration and communication opportunities ➤ Often includes a programmable layer for bots or other integrations (e.g. ChatOps) ➤ It’s complicated …
8. WHAT CAN YOU DO?
9. WHAT CAN WE DO WITH TEAM CHAT? ➤Communicate and collaborate! ➤Organize around topics to discuss, organizational hierarchy, projects, etc. ➤Can integrate other applications and software products for notifications, actions, embedding media, etc. ➤Did I mention communicating and collaborating?
10. EXAMPLES
11. BASECAMP basecamp.com
12. SLACK slack.com
13. GOOGLE HANGOUTS CHAT chat.google.com
14. MICROSOFT TEAMS teams.microsoft.com
15. ROCKET.CHAT rocket.chat
16. DISCORD discordapp.com
17. LET’S GO FOR A SPIN
19. "THE OTHER SIDE”
20. “THE OTHER SIDE” ➤ Can encourage being too connected ➤ Fear of missing out ➤ Another account to keep track of ➤ Another app to keep on top of ➤ More notifications ➤ A lot of “churn” in the industry ➤ Need for more training ➤ Can not be great for in-depth conversations ➤ Can get off topic … pretty fast
21. LET’S TALK