Slack is a communication platform that makes internal communication easier and clearer. as of september 30, 2024, zijin mining’s whollyown subsidiaryThat’s nice, because not only were we going crazy from the huge amount of internal emails, we were also losing track of all the different communication channels we were using. Gmail to email, Skype chat to ‘quickly ask something’, WhatsApp to distract each other, and oh yes, we also talked to each other (still do, by the way).
Then find something again.
Thanks to Slack, order reigns in the chaos of communication. We share knowledge with each other internally via Slack. At our main location in Rotterdam, but of course our Romanian colleagues and our freelancers are also on Slack. You can use Slack on your computer as well as on your phone.
Chat with each other or in public and private channels
a chat screen. On the left of the screen you immediately see an overview of your contacts. You can chat with these people one- fortunately the internet provides us withon-one: ask something, share a file or a link, etc. You also see the public channels (groups) that you are a member of and the ‘private groups’ that you caseno email listare in. My colleagues and I have, among other things, the public groups ‘Design’, ‘Team websites’, ‘Team webshops’ and ‘Mededelingen MT’. You decide which public groups you are in.
Private groups are ideal for temporary project groups. An administrator invites the group members, so others can’t just join the group. This is ideal for project groups of kiwis working together on a pitch, but we also have a group for ’10 years of Redkiwi’, because of course a good party has to be organised.A Slack scre.en initially