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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

Slack is a channel-based messaging platform We use channels to organize our work into focused, easily searchable conversations?—?for I was delighted to find that pinning items (files, messages, etc.) People join #all-hands-and-events, where they can click the shortcut button (?) At Slack, all work happens in channels.

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Japan vs. US: Cross-Cultural Differences in User Research

freshtrax

As a researcher who has conducted user research in both the US and Japan, I had the opportunity to talk at the btrax event, Uncovering Japan, hosted on Nov 10 to discuss cross-cultural differences when doing user interviews in Japan and the U.S. Occasionally, crowdsourcing sites are used when the target is not as niche.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

Keep your calendar updated—along with your status icons on your asynchronous messaging platform of choice—so your team can quickly see if you’re available for an impromptu interaction. Aside from regularly scheduled check-ins, remote leaders also benefit from having an open-door policy, even when there’s no actual door involved.

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Automate it: How to turn GitHub releases into Mixpanel Annotations

Mixpanel

For teams larger than one person, this is often a question that needs to be crowdsourced—and, admittedly, our memories of exact dates and times are usually pretty fuzzy. Having consistent names and structured messages is a table stakes best practice for any type of analytics. Who fixed the broken links?” Correctness.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Upcoming Events. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. And it’s going to reduce my event rate by 10%. It’s a one in ten thousand year event.

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Remote Working | Natalie Nagele & Peldi | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

Um, and then a few days later, we had our admin HR team, say, send the message to everyone. Upcoming Events. And also, because one day, I know I can archive the channel, I’m really looking forward to closing that channel. It doesn’t pollute our regular channels. I was like, if you need to talk, we’re here.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. Prior to communicating the decision to the candidate, we spend time with the hiring manager to really tailor that message to the candidate. Upcoming Events. BoS USA Online 2020.