Well, ’cause it’s exciting! Online chat-spaces like Slack are a great way for team who aren’t always in the same space at the same time to keep that sense of community and camaraderie. You can communicate as a group through channels or privately via “direct messaging.” It is an awesome tool to help you organize! Slack makes communicating easy and fun.

It is a computer application that was created as a way for organizations to communicate both as a group and in personal one-on-one discussions. Slack is like a chatroom for your whole team. Slack might work for your team’s work style, and it might not. It’s a tool that you can use on your computer and your phone to stay in touch with your team, and keep everyone up to date with the important news and goings-on.

It’s a great place to coordinate and collaborate, and a fun place to get to know your fellow organizers and activists, even when you can’t all be in the same room at the same time. Slack is a meeting space, water-cooler, bulletin board, and phone-tree for your whole organizing team.