Introduction:
We all know that teams outperform individuals. Teams do better not only because they put more people to work on a task, but also because their diverse skills and perspectives have a multiplying effect. Teams can also be too much of a good thing — the larger the team, the more effort and overhead it takes to keep people organized, involved and productive by taking the right decisions. Gathering inputs from a team is difficult, therefore Online Voting can help making decisions easier and Slack has provided an effective framework to do this - it is called "Slagora".
We all know that teams outperform individuals. Teams do better not only because they put more people to work on a task, but also because their diverse skills and perspectives have a multiplying effect. Teams can also be too much of a good thing — the larger the team, the more effort and overhead it takes to keep people organized, involved and productive by taking the right decisions. Gathering inputs from a team is difficult, therefore Online Voting can help making decisions easier and Slack has provided an effective framework to do this - it is called "Slagora".
Slagora is a
ready-made Slack application - which means that it is an essential chat room
for your whole company, designed to replace email as your primary method of
communication and sharing - that enables teams to create interactive polls
using voting algorithms.
Slagora makes it
extremely easy to create polls and take informed decisions collectively. This
makes the overall functioning of the organization much more efficient, which
allows you to gain an upper-hand in this fast-paced world.
Why Slagora when there are many others:
1. Slagora is
unbelievably light-weight for an app. Along with that it’s really fast. Slagora
makes use of the Agora vote counting library which has been proven to be one of
the fastest and the most accurate libraries used to count votes in a poll or
election.
2. Slagora is
user-friendly. With a simple UI and easy to remember commands, any Slack user
can easily interact with Slagora.
3. Slagora is
powerful. Slagora can handle a huge number of polls and elections while
providing the best services.
4. Slagora is
extremely secure. The data stored in Slagora is not shared with any third party
and across different teams in slack even if the user is a member of the other
teams.
5. Slagora is fully
Free and Open-Source. This means that it is always updating and improving. As
it is Open-Sourced, it enables anyone to look for and fix security flaws. And
since it’s peer-reviewed, it opens the software up to a large base of inspectors
who can quickly detect issues.
6. The app is
extremely effortless to set up and use.
How to use Slagora:
1. Open Slack.
2. Sign into your
workspace. If you don't have one go to step 3.
3. Create your
workspace. Enter your e-mail.
4. Name your
project.
5. Tell them what
your team is working on.
6. Add some
teammates. (You can skip this if you want to :)
7. You will now be
in the workspace that you have made.
8. Create a channel.
Click on the + sign next to Channels.
9. You have now made
a channel on Slack.
10. Go onto
Slagora's Website.
11. Press the
Sing in with Slack button.
12. Add Slagora from
your workspace.
13. Select a
channel.
14. Slagora should
now be installed to you channel.
15. Type in
"/slagora create".
16. Fill out
the election information form.
17. Complete
the election setup. (You only have 5 minutes to do this)
18. Cast your
vote.
19. Well done, you
have now created an election using Slagora on Slack.
Another election as
an example to decide your plans for the weekend. Participants accessed it on
their phone and here are some screenshots of what it looked like-
20. Results
of the voting too can be optionally displayed, as below.
