Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urgent communication channels

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

This morning when I saw this subject line, I thought “What about Paul Revere?” 

Email is the closest you can get offsite but in most communities, it would be 
less than a 5-minute run. (Longer if you take that literally and have to saddle 
up a horse.)

Sharon

> On Jan 14, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Kris Robinson Staveley <krstaveley [at] 
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> This sounds perfect but I don't see this functionality built into Slack so
> I'm guessing that you must be using an addon integration. All I found with
> a quick look was integrations that send individual texts, not to everyone
> in a channel.
> 
> Do you know which integration you are using for this?
> 
> Thanks, Kris
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 10:04 AM David Bygott via Cohousing-L, <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> David Bygott
>> Milagro Cohousing, Tucson AZ
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