

Starring helps you to avoid noise and to focus on what’s important to you. To help you organize and prioritize your communications, we recommend you favorite (or star) channels, private groups, and DMs. More information on how to do this can be found here - Favorite Channels (You'll see a badge in the channel list if you get a direct message or a teammate mentions you or your keywords.)

Any messages or files you mark with a star are added to your Starred Items for easy reference. Use stars to mark important items in Slack and help keep them top of mind.

You can think of a DM as a private channel with only two members. Direct Messagesĭirect Messages (DMs) are private, 1-on-1 conversation between team members. Use private groups for subjects that are sensitive, confidential, or limited to a specific group. A private channel has a lock icon next to its name. You have to be invited to join a private channel to view it in Slack. They're for discussions that shouldn't be open to your entire workspace. New users can join any public channel and read all the information previously shared by other users. #ask-the-techteam - an open channel for any member of staff to ask any technical or tooling questions to the technical services team #random - a channel for any cross staff water-cooler discussions on anything at all.#general - a read-only general channel for any organization wide announcements.Anything posted to a public channel is browsable and searchable by all members, except for Guests (non-staff members) of your Slack workspace.Ĭurrently, we have the following public channels: Public channels channel can be joined by any staff member who has an account. Public channels are for conversations that are open to all users of our workspace, including those from the external community who may have accounts.
