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Join or leave a channel - Slack Tutorial
From the course: Slack Essential Training
Join or leave a channel
- [Instructor] In Slack, channels are used to focus and filter our messaging. Each new Slack workspace includes a public channel that is called general. Sometimes organizations rename this channel all staff, company-wide announcements, news, whatever other name they'd like it to have. But the key notion behind the general channel, regardless of its name, is that every member of the workspace is a member of the general channel. Your organization might have created other channels that every member of the workspace has to be a member of. But by default, general is the only channel that's a required channel. You can create other public channels in Slack, and most of the channels that we'll create in Slack will, in fact, be public channels. But you can create a private channel if a topic or a team requires privacy for their work. There are also shared channels that are used to connect your Slack workspace with a Slack…
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