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by flakiness 1453 days ago
A subset of tech community in Japan has established a strange form of "broadcast" yourself in Slack, which is called "minute-updates" channels, that is, each team member creates a channel owned by oneself, posts short updates (or tweets, if you like to think in that way) there, and lets others chime-in freely. So it's a channel for monologues out loud.

This clearly doesn't scale for large orgs, but any communication method doesn't anyway. One clear advantage of this is the low entry barrier: You don't have to worry about interrupting and shutting down the ongoing conversion unintentionally, or spamming others.

Although this barrier lowering seems to be helping a lot in the highly peer-aware environments like Japan. I'm not sure how effective this is in a different context. So take this as a grain of salt.

2 comments

This sounds like a fascinating social medium/"platform". Could you share more about the community or an article about it?

I tried sending you an email but it bounced!

This is interesting, actually. I like it. Thanks for sharing!