Online Communities
Using the Online Communities
We have created our online communities using the platform Slack. Slack is a secure online messaging application that is widely used by teams working in organisations and businesses. It provides a place for networking, collaboration, and reflection on the training and resources provided.
Privacy and security
You can find out about the security and privacy of the Slack platform on their web pages: https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/202014843-Slack-data-security-and-privacy-policies
Your online profile
You will be invited to sign in to the community with your email address. Part of signing up requires you to set up a profile, consisting of your name, nickname, preferred pronouns and an optional profile image.
To protect your privacy, other community members will only see your nickname, pronouns and profile image. Your email address and real name will be hidden from other members (but will be visible to admins).
Community guidelines
The online community is a safe and friendly place where practitioners can share knowledge, questions, resources and reflections. The aim of this is to support learning and to create networks. To enable this, members are asked to follow a few basic guidelines:
Aviod using all offensive language.
Be polite and respetful of each other.
Do not post any content containing personal or sensitive information about any members, colleagues or users of your services.
How To guides
A Quick-start guide to Slack
This video is a quick start guide to using slack. It is fairly generic, but should give you a good idea of how Slack works.