So I literally just reorganized our slack channels because it had gotten out of hand and didn't have a pattern that was easy to recognize, just random channel names etc. You had to have some institutional knowledge to know where to look for what.
What I wound up doing was creating more a naming scheme and limiting access to Slack channels which didn't need broad audiences. This removes a ton of unnecessary chatter and means messages won't get missed as easily.
e.g. I created ask_execs, ask_engineering, ask_marketing etc, team_engineering, team_sales, team_"region" (we have a few sub regions). Then we have are more generic channels, like announcements where company wide announcements are made, and press for press coverage, random for just that etc. I also setup bot_xyz channels for bots we have running for specific tasks.
I think that pretty much covers it. In the end we archived like 50% of our channels and it is a lot cleaner now. My opinion is this should be something that should be done every so often to keep some control over it and to make sure channels are used for the right purposes and not hijacked routinely by off topic discussions.
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So I literally just reorganized our slack channels because it had gotten out of hand and didn't have a pattern that was easy to recognize, just random channel names etc. You had to have some institutional knowledge to know where to look for what.
What I wound up doing was creating more a naming scheme and limiting access to Slack channels which didn't need broad audiences. This removes a ton of unnecessary chatter and means messages won't get missed as easily.
e.g. I created ask_execs, ask_engineering, ask_marketing etc, team_engineering, team_sales, team_"region" (we have a few sub regions). Then we have are more generic channels, like announcements where company wide announcements are made, and press for press coverage, random for just that etc. I also setup bot_xyz channels for bots we have running for specific tasks.
I think that pretty much covers it. In the end we archived like 50% of our channels and it is a lot cleaner now. My opinion is this should be something that should be done every so often to keep some control over it and to make sure channels are used for the right purposes and not hijacked routinely by off topic discussions.