9 Slack Features You Should Use To Run A More Coordinated Campaign

Slack is a powerful tool for streamlining professional communications and campaigns are no exception. At its core, Slack is a messaging platform for work-related discussions and collaboration. Many of its most important features are also free, making this an affordable option for all campaigns.

In one place, you can communicate with your entire campaign team across platforms, stay organized, and work together. In this post, we’ll explore some valuable Slack features to help you manage your campaign more effectively. Whether you’re new to the platform or have been using it for years, these tips will take your campaign communication to the next level.

Invite Guests

On a free plan, there’s no cost to invite new users, and if you’re on a paid Slack plan, Guest users are free. This means you can invite all of your campaign’s team, including consultants, advisors, and vendors to communicate and access specific channels.

The more disciplined your campaign is about communicating via Slack, the more the whole team stays in the loop.

Pin Messages

In each Slack channel, you can pin messages to keep important information like frequently asked questions easily accessible. This ensures that critical information, like contact details, schedules or procedures, don’t get lost in the flow of conversation.

By pinning messages, you can create a quick reference guide within each channel.

To-Do Lists

You can even use Slack as a lightweight project management tool to keep track of to-do lists and coordinate on specific tasks. While not as robust as tools like Trello or Asana, Slack’s to-do lists will work for staying organized.

Integrations

Slack connects with many of the other apps you use like Google Drive, Google Calendar, Zoom and more so you can keep your internal communications centralized, streamlined, and organized.

Threads

Threaded conversations in Slack help your team stay on track and organized. Instead of having to dig through a melee of messages, threading ensures messages exist in the context of all that has come before.

Canvas

With a Canvas, you can build simple knowledge bases or wikis for specific channels. If you have more details to share than a pinned message allows, the Canvas is the way to go.

Bookmarks

Bookmarking important messages or assigned tasks is another way Slack makes it easy to stay organized.

Approvals

Approving campaign communications like emails, press releases, and invitations is a never-ending challenge and a slow approvals process can become a bottleneck towards making progress. Designing a quick and easy approvals process in Slack with emojis will keep you on track.

Status

Slack shows your team mates when you’re offline, in a meeting, out sick, or working from home, making status updates a time saving feature.

Conclusion

On campaigns, speed kills and maintaining communication is the surest way to run an efficient, effective team. A platform like Slack is essential to keeping everyone in the loop with the most up to date information available.