Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urgent communication channels

[Sara Gottlieb (sara.gottlieb]

We've been using Slack for a few years, initially with the intent of using
it for more "chatty" type discussions so our email wouldn't be so
cluttered, but also to incorporate a "time-sensitive" channel for messages
needing immediate attention.  Unfortunatley, a subset of our residents
refused to install the Slack app and the person who set up Slack who was
supposed to help residents get themselves set up to receive the
"time-sensitive" messages in their email or text message never did so.  So
now we have messages being posted to BOTH Slack and email, and no way to
get urgent messages out to everyone in a way they reliably see them.

*I'd be very curious to know if there's a way to configure a Slack channel
to send an email or text message to a person who hasn't signed up for the
service themselves in any way.*  That would be a very useful feature for us.

Sara Gottlieb
Lake Claire Co-Housing
Atlanta, GA



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> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:02:23 -0700
> From: David Bygott <davidbygott [at] yahoo.com>
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Urgent communication channels
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> We use an intra-community Slack network, mostly for nonessential chat, but
> it has an ?alert? channel configured so that any message posted in that
> channel is automatically sent to everyone?s email and as a text message to
> everyone?s phone. It can thus reach everyone quickly and reliably.
> (Typically we use it for rattlesnakes - someone reports a rattlesnake, and
> someone else says, I?m on it, and hurries to catch and relocate the snake
> outside our supposedly snakeproof fence. Yeah, Wild West stuff). If the
> convo continues longer than an alert and a response, it can be annoying, as
> everyone receives every response, but we are getting better at that.
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> David Bygott
> Milagro Cohousing, Tucson AZ
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