You are still helping people! your video allowed me to layer in more Teams skills. Great examples. There was an instance or two that could have improved with a screenshot. Well done🙂
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📚 Introduction to Chats and Channels 03:05 🗂️ Organizing Chats and Channels 07:42 🔗 Interactions and Permissions 10:34 🚀 Unique Features of Chats and Channels Made with HARPA AI
Thanks, really helpful! I would love to see an option to create a channel within the team that allows more chat-like conversational behaviour, i.e. without having to create a dedicated chat with everyone in the team - I find the "new conversation" option in normal channel a little clunky, and with users having to click on "reply" detracts from just having a normal conversation. Thoughts?
We have differing opinions among our team, but since I'm (Mitch) the one replying I'll share my thought: I very much dislike how every message warrants a "conversation" within Teams. It makes things feel much more formal, and I prefer a more casual approach. Slack has a similar structure to conversations with "threads", and I really like how it keeps everything in one stream by default, and you can start a "thread" if you need to have more back and forth and it doesn't need to be in the "feed" so to speak. I imagine it is from a different perspective/philosophy between the two product groups. One says "I need to build everything for the enterprise first, then I'll focus on the experience", and the other says "I want to build a great communication tool first, how can this work for the enterprise second".
I think what you are describing Jacques.... is a Chat ! :D If they made them the same, then there wouldnt be much point in having two different ways right?
If you create a Team for the purpose of sharing files with others but only want some people to have Editing access while others only Read Only access is it better to do that in a Channel or a Chat?
I would not recommend creating a Team to share files with users who should have read only access to files. Teams is intended to collaborate with users. If you are looking to communicate with users I would consider using a SharePoint Communication Site. Another option would be to not use a file format that can be updated by users. If you post PDF documents instead of Word or Excel that will prevent users from easily updating the files.
@@BulbDigital Thanks for the advice. My organization is moving away from Shared Drive creation but we have yet to fully integrate SharePoint and are offering Teams as a replacement which I don’t fully agree with because as e as you state Teams is supposed to be a collaborative environment.
@@Hopster1 Yep, the tools serve different purposes unfortunately! SharePoint is also the natural replacement for Shared Drives so it's interesting to hear that isn't going that direction.
Hi Vicky, thanks for the love! If you hover over the channel in the list in Teams, click the ellipsis and you should be able to select "Get Email Address"
Brilliant breakdown of Chat vs Team. I´ve checked a load of these videos, and they`ve rabbit on about things that weren`t necesary. You guys were to the point, and covered direct tools and benefits. Looking forward to viewing the whole channel now, subscribed!
This video was fantastic! Thank you so much. It explained this so much better than ALL of the available Microsoft resources on the topic which is a bit concerning! After watching this I booked a session with my team to explain the differences to them and get them to discuss and decide what are the best ways to use these features for the team! Thanks again!
To change the privacy settings for your team from public to private (or vice versa), go to the team name and select More options More options button > Edit team toward the bottom of the menu. Under Privacy, select either Public or Private.
Thanks! Nope, no way to see that. If it's really important for people to acknowledge they have seen it, you could encourage them to react to a post to signify they have read it.
Thanks so much for the video. Very detailed which I appreciate. I did notice that you also use Slack! I personally love Slack as I use it in another business. I keep contemplating whether to just move away from MS Teams for any chat and use Slack but it's costly! Any thoughts?
No problem! Yeah we kind of have a foot on each side of the fence right now. We actually just released a podcast episode where we talked a bit about our use of Slack vs Teams if you want to give it a listen! anchor.fm/make-others-successful/episodes/5-Non-Microsoft-Apps-We-Use-e1p2fst
You are still helping people! your video allowed me to layer in more Teams skills. Great examples. There was an instance or two that could have improved with a screenshot. Well done🙂
Thanks Karen! Glad we could help.
Wonderful explanation!!! Thank a lot
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
9:58 Re: Channel notifications - you can customise to get all notification or just turn it off.
🙌 Great!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📚 Introduction to Chats and Channels
03:05 🗂️ Organizing Chats and Channels
07:42 🔗 Interactions and Permissions
10:34 🚀 Unique Features of Chats and Channels
Made with HARPA AI
Thanks, really helpful! I would love to see an option to create a channel within the team that allows more chat-like conversational behaviour, i.e. without having to create a dedicated chat with everyone in the team - I find the "new conversation" option in normal channel a little clunky, and with users having to click on "reply" detracts from just having a normal conversation. Thoughts?
We have differing opinions among our team, but since I'm (Mitch) the one replying I'll share my thought:
I very much dislike how every message warrants a "conversation" within Teams. It makes things feel much more formal, and I prefer a more casual approach.
Slack has a similar structure to conversations with "threads", and I really like how it keeps everything in one stream by default, and you can start a "thread" if you need to have more back and forth and it doesn't need to be in the "feed" so to speak.
I imagine it is from a different perspective/philosophy between the two product groups. One says "I need to build everything for the enterprise first, then I'll focus on the experience", and the other says "I want to build a great communication tool first, how can this work for the enterprise second".
I think what you are describing Jacques.... is a Chat ! :D If they made them the same, then there wouldnt be much point in having two different ways right?
If you create a Team for the purpose of sharing files with others but only want some people to have Editing access while others only Read Only access is it better to do that in a Channel or a Chat?
I would not recommend creating a Team to share files with users who should have read only access to files. Teams is intended to collaborate with users.
If you are looking to communicate with users I would consider using a SharePoint Communication Site.
Another option would be to not use a file format that can be updated by users. If you post PDF documents instead of Word or Excel that will prevent users from easily updating the files.
@@BulbDigital Thanks for the advice. My organization is moving away from Shared Drive creation but we have yet to fully integrate SharePoint and are offering Teams as a replacement which I don’t fully agree with because as e as you state Teams is supposed to be a collaborative environment.
@@Hopster1 Yep, the tools serve different purposes unfortunately! SharePoint is also the natural replacement for Shared Drives so it's interesting to hear that isn't going that direction.
Hello, love this channel. How can I create a virtual email address for a channel
Hi Vicky, thanks for the love! If you hover over the channel in the list in Teams, click the ellipsis and you should be able to select "Get Email Address"
@@BulbDigital thank you!!!! My job is going to love this idea ☺️
For the love of god, just send me an email.
We prefer phone calls 😉
Brilliant breakdown of Chat vs Team. I´ve checked a load of these videos, and they`ve rabbit on about things that weren`t necesary. You guys were to the point, and covered direct tools and benefits. Looking forward to viewing the whole channel now, subscribed!
Thanks for the kind words Asif! You're setting a high bar, but that's good for us 😊 we'll do our best to keep them coming.
This video was fantastic! Thank you so much. It explained this so much better than ALL of the available Microsoft resources on the topic which is a bit concerning! After watching this I booked a session with my team to explain the differences to them and get them to discuss and decide what are the best ways to use these features for the team! Thanks again!
Thank you so much, we love comments like this. It indicates there's a gap somewhere and we're filling some of it. Glad we could help!
Can you make a public channel, private?
To change the privacy settings for your team from public to private (or vice versa), go to the team name and select More options More options button > Edit team toward the bottom of the menu. Under Privacy, select either Public or Private.
Great video. Can you tell who had read you ur post on a channel? In a chat you get the little eye ball. Don’t see that on a channel.
Thanks! Nope, no way to see that. If it's really important for people to acknowledge they have seen it, you could encourage them to react to a post to signify they have read it.
Thanks so much for the video. Very detailed which I appreciate. I did notice that you also use Slack! I personally love Slack as I use it in another business. I keep contemplating whether to just move away from MS Teams for any chat and use Slack but it's costly! Any thoughts?
No problem! Yeah we kind of have a foot on each side of the fence right now. We actually just released a podcast episode where we talked a bit about our use of Slack vs Teams if you want to give it a listen! anchor.fm/make-others-successful/episodes/5-Non-Microsoft-Apps-We-Use-e1p2fst
This gets a lil dense for my poor addled brain, but is as simple a narrative as a dense MS product can ever get, thanks for doing it!
It's a bit to understand for sure! We wish it was a little more simple.
to many adds
Sorry! That's the first we've heard this.