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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello DesignSafe User Community:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Many of you have already received, and the rest of you will soon receive, an invitation to join the DesignSafe Slack Team, https://designsafe-ci.slack.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Slack is an online collaborative communication tool - a modern, highly capable and integrative user forum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Slack is best implemented using their App so that you get push notifications when new content or messages are available - and the App is available for your laptop or any mobile device.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Share your ideas! Post questions! Explore the Channels and join the topics that interest you! Request new features! Send me a direct message with your thoughts! Set up your own private groups (channels) for
your research projects! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Slack is flexible and customizable to your needs!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Channels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organize your team conversations in open channels. Make a channel for a project, a topic, a team, or anything—everyone has a transparent view of all that’s going on, or for sensitive information, create private
channels and invite select team members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Direct Messages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Send messages directly to another person or to a small group of people for more focused conversations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Drag, drop, and share your files<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Not just messages, but all your files, images, PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets can be dropped right into Slack and shared with anyone you want. Add comments, star for later reference, and it’s all completely
searchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Calls<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Take a conversation from typing to face-to-face by starting a voice or video call in any Channel or Direct Message. Make one-on-one or group calls right from Slack without needing to open another app or share
invite links.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Search your entire Slack archive<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Everything in Slack—messages, notifications, files, and all—is automatically indexed and archived so that you can have it at your fingertips whenever you want. Slack also indexes the content of every file
so you can search within PDFs, Word documents, Google docs, and more. With one search box and a set of powerful search operators, you can slice and dice your way to that one message in your communication haystack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Join us on Slack!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Tim Cockerill, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">DesignSafe Deputy Project Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Director of Center Programs<br>
Texas Advanced Computing Center<br>
The University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">512-471-8197 Office<br>
217-714-0466 Cell<br>
<a href="mailto:cockerill@tacc.utexas.edu"><span style="color:blue">cockerill@tacc.utexas.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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