A summary of slack and the role it can play in non-for-profit organizations.

1. Slack
Jainabou Jallow & Emily Bouchard

2. What is Slack?
“More transparent, more
productive, more efficient, and
no more email. That’s Slack.”
• Messaging application for
teams
• All communication in one
place; integrates with existing
apps and tools

3. How Slack
Works
• Create a team
• Conversations are
organized into
customizable channels
• Channels can be created
for departments,
projects, etc.
• Team members can drop-
in on all channels

4. How Slack
Works
• Share images and files
(drag & drop)
• Collaborate on
documents easily; make
comments
• Private groups; Direct
Messaging
• React with emoticons

5. Features: Mentions, Stars, & Pins

6. Features: Notifications & Mobile
• Receive Slack updates
live while you’re working
outside of Slack
• Mobile app feature; so
you can work on Slack
anywhere, anytime
• “Set as away” feature

7. Features: Integrations
And many more!

8. What does
it cost?
• You can sign up for free –
unlimited amount of team
members; meant for a trial
run or small teams
• Premium accounts available
for more customizability,
more memory, and more
integrations
Free
5GB
Search 10k
most recent
messages
10 integrations Standard
Usage stats and
reporting
Unlimited
search
& integrations
Plus
24/7 Support
Security
99.99% Uptime
Single Sign-On
Compliance
Exports
Enterprise
Coming in 2016
Multiple team
directory
Org wide
metrics
$6.67/per
user/per mo
$12.50/per
user/per mo

9. Share info between all team
members freely
Collect searchable database
of knowledge naturally
Fun, easy way to collaborate
and connect
Why should we
use Slack in
our field?
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