Announcements
Virtual Book Tours: Slack For Dummies and Zoom For Dummies
An hour with your organization's employees to learn about Slack and to pick my brain.
Tag: Slack For Dummies
I wrote the book. It only makes sense that I blog about it.
Announcements
Publication of Slack For Dummies
Book number nine is out. 💥
Collaboration
Slack Tip #4: Making a Public Channel Private
With a few clicks, you can control who can join your channels.
Collaboration
Slack Tip #3: Removing Apps
Here's how to eliminate one from your workspace.
Collaboration
Slack Tip #2: How Many Channels Do We Need?
Thoughts on overwhelming newbies.
Communication
Excerpt From Slack For Dummies
Here are a few chapters from my new book.
Collaboration
Slack Tip #1: Dealing With Workspace Trolls
Two tools for handling jackasses, knuckleheads, nimrods, dolts, and idiots.
Analytics
Publication of HBR Book on Agile Methods
It's hard to overstate the impact of a little good news these days.
Announcements
An Update on Slack For Dummies
The page proofs are in.
Announcements
CMU Webinar on Remote Work
An interactive Q&A on how to use today's most popular collaboration tools.
Technology
An Note on Slack For Dummies Pre-Orders
Let's help out independent book stores.
Announcements
Announcing My Next Book: Zoom For Dummies
I'll be penning the definitive guide on today's leading videoconferencing tool.
Faves
Geeking Out Over Scrabble in Python
Writing a little script to calculate the streak needed to hit a user-defined winning percentage.
Publishing
A Quick Note on Slack's New UI and Slack For Dummies
The new book reflects Slack's most updated version.
Analytics
Visualizing My Students' Slack Messages
A Tableau dataviz that explores the relationship between days active and messages sent.
Higher Education
Tips for Professors Teaching Online for the First Time
Some tools to help newbies weather the transition.
Communication
Slack and Change Management
Thoughts on why it's essential to overcome employee resistance.
Collaboration
Using Slack to Ghostwrite a Book: A Case Study
Add a few apps and make the flexible collaboration hub is ideal for this type of project.