I’ve said before that I like badges, especially ones that take real effort to achieve. While it may be my first “gold-level” badge on Stack Overflow, I can’t really say it took skill, just dogged persistence (and liberal use of Slack’s /remind command):
The advice in Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques is broader than just Slack, but given my prior post on best practices, I thought I’d mention it for further reading.
Technique number three from that article made me think of an additional helpful hint for Slack conversation. If you initiate a conversation via at-mention, you should be prepared to dialogue in real-time. There’s a cost to causing an interruption to another person, and one should try to minimize the duration of said interruption by treating the interaction as if it was an in-person conversation.
Also, No Hello. Get to the point.