Slack aounces major update for its Shared Chaels feature

Back in September last year, Slack aounced a new brand new feature called Shared Chaels which coects two separate organizations, creating a common chael for both sides to make use of Slack’s features and platform integrations when working together. Shared Chael differs from Guest Access which keeps admin control limited to one party. While Microsoft Teams, Slack’s primary competitor is still working on full Guess Access feature, Slack today aounced a major update to its Shared Chael feature. Read about it below.

Slack’s new Private Shared Chaels will allow organizations to have collaboration with others involving classified information. With the new feature, admins can now choose whether a specific shared chael is public or private for their respective workspace. This means that a Shared Chael can be public or private on both workspaces, or public on one side and private on the other.

Slack today aounced new Administration section to provide admins with a consolidated way to manage Shared Chaels for their workspace. With the new section, admins can do the following:

• View all of the external workspaces their workspace is coected to
• See how many—and which—chaels are shared with each workspace
• Create new shared chaels
• View pending shared chaels invitations
• Stop sharing any or all shared chaels

Slack today also aounced a new Enterprise Grid feature for standard chaels. This new feature will offer the ability to make chaels default (everyone added) with option to make membership mandatory, as well as the ability to manage posting privileges so only admins or specific team members can post (with the option to allow team members to thread) so chaels don’t get noisy.