I'd stay away from trying to use Slack as an announcement tool. It's more ephemeral and messages fly by and get buried pretty quickly.
Email is still the best place for official announcements, we often mention a slack channel related to the announcement in the email for people who want to talk about it (#general by default, otherwise one of the specialized channels). I'd also recommend a casual channel or two, based around some known shared interests of your members. Once people see those kinds of channels they start to come up with more ideas of their own. Some great starter channels that lots of people can get involved in are #music (our channel ends up being a lot of YouTube music videos and soundcloud tracks), #podcasts (again, episode recommendations and episode discussions), #bookworms...and that's just a couple of them. Don't over plan it, the whole idea is to create places where people can talk about their non-work interests, and find out who shares them because that's where TRUST is built among community members. And if you over plan it, people don't get a chance to feel a sense of ownership over creating and moderating the rooms, which leads to the rooms dying quickly. Just a couple of casual seeds though and things can really start to take off! Oh, and don't forget to update the slack settings for "default rooms when new members join" to include a couple of these special interest rooms. People can leave them if they end up not being interested but think of it a bit like a tour through a virtual space. Show them it's there, and then let them decide if they want to stay! Good luck, -Alex On Friday, September 18, 2015, Elizabeth Trice <[email protected]> wrote: > We're just about to set up slack. I'd like to know how many channels/ what > types people have found optimal. > Our current plan is: > 1. General conversation > 2. Official announcements > 3. A private group for ambassadors (front desk volunteers) and managers > with a central email that members can send issues to that would show up on > the managers group. > > We're also wondering if this will replace our private facebook group, > which has fairly good usage (often 25 views/post) > > We have 80 members, but only about half of those ate actively engaged. > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
