Taking up Slack: Renergizing Group Communications in the 21st Century

Slack (https://slack.com/) is an easy to use communication tool. It brings all of your group communication needs into a single, searchable space. It features organization wide public channels, private groups, file uploads, and a myriad of service integrations that bring outside information into your group. 
The CALI staff started using Slack in March of 2014 and it quickly became our tool of choice for chatting, sharing information and files, and tracking what's going on with CALI. In addition to the chat and file sharing features, we make extensive use of the integration feature of Slack to import news feedsfrom law schools, system alerts from our servers, updates to our Github projects, and more. All of this allows to have a lot of information at our finger tips.
This session will take a look at the basics of Slack including how to get started, some of the more advanced paid features (yes, we like it so much we have a subscription), and delve into the ways that CALI uses this tool for our projects. If you're interested in checking out some of the feautres drop me a note, emastersATcali.org, and I'll invite you a special channel we've setup for this session.

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