Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here and in today's video we're gonna be taking a look at
The top 5 plus team communication tools out there
We're not just gonna mention the regular ones that you know
We're gonna mention a few other alternatives that might be good for you and your team to communicate. So without further ado, let's roll into
Now we've all seen team communication tools like slack and Microsoft teams as the tools that we typically go to
When we are looking for some sort of team communication tool now traditionally. These tools are normally focused on obviously
real-time
Communication but they're also focused on two other aspects they include search so being able to search back
Conversations and also the ability to integrate other popular applications your company already
Uses now the tools that we will mention do come with a free plan
but there is also
unlimited which gives you that access to search that extends all the way back to when your companies started the account and
also further integrations
but we'll dive a little bit deeper into that also do bear in mind before jumping on a team communication tool that
Project managers tend to include some sort of chat ability as well
So you don't necessarily have to have this separate service, but this is something to talk about with your team. Ok
So the first one is Facebook
Workplace and this one looks very similar to if you already have Facebook and you utilize the group's feature
It's very relaxed as you can imagine works exactly like Facebook groups allowing you to post comments
also post in
Announcements updates to you and your team you can narrow your team down to specific
departments, and you can also have good amounts of
administrative abilities
Organizing your team. And what's great is it's also free for up to 50 members
But there is a $4 per user per month charge after
50 members and I'll show the pricing on screen so you need to know all about it
but as you can imagine takes very little training for your employees to get started on it as
They'll already be using it and I believe the Facebook workspace protects your personal account
So that other people don't necessarily jump into your personal lives that straight after being on their work to meet team communication tool
Okay, so number two and that is Microsoft teams. Now Mike's of team has rocketed in the past few weeks
It's had up to 11 million extra users
Making it 44 million users in total using it and that's normally because it's part of the Microsoft Office
Business Premium Membership. So once you're signed up to that, which is $12 50 per user per month
say your team is you can activate it at any time and that seems to be
What is happening?
A lot of Microsoft Office users are just activating it and getting started with utilizing the tool now. It doesn't have any
Amazing features but it does have some great ones for video conferencing like blur background and a ton of file management
Abilities now include a few videos below from collaboration coach about Microsoft teams in helping you to get set up with that
Ok, so number three and that is slack
Let's get all the regular ones out the way it is. Probably the most hip and attractive looking of the
Applications and it does have one of the best sets of integrations. It's got this app
Directory that is so advanced everything from tight form to fresh desk and everything in between it allows you to connect
Anything from sales to HR tools to goal tracking tools. It's really quite advanced now
Naturally they do have a free plan
But I believe their parade plan is eight dollars per user per month, which is a little bit steeper
but you are paying for the search and also the ability to
plug in more integrations
Ok, so number four in that is flock. Now. Some of you may have heard of flock. It is a very clean-looking
Application and what a lot of people like about flock is it's very simple in terms of integrations
Abilities compared to slack some people don't necessarily need that layer
But it also has some abilities like you being able to say tasks
Notes and also tracked progression for projects as well all built into it without any
existing integrations needed you can also map your processes in this application and it is free with a
$4 50 per user per month fee if you decide to get search and obviously naturally the Premium Package. Ok
So number five and that is twist now I use twist with Alice here at key productive
The main reason behind that is because twist offers thread based thirst
Abilities. So for example instead of necessarily
Real-time communication, although you can do that inside the application
You can start this thread that is specific to a goal or a certain tasks and you're working on and that thread is
Only for conversation based on that so you're actually designing
your real-time communication or asynchronous communication around
Completing a certain activity or project
Now I would say it's one of the best experiences I've used. It has a really good mobile application and the desktop applications work
really really well, and it's almost like more values driven as a company duyst is a
fantastic company the crate to do is I'm a bit of a fanboy as you can tell but
Naturally, you can get it for free. And if you want to extend your plan, it's gonna be five dollars per user per month
Ok, so if you're much more relaxed, maybe you're a bunch of developers
Then discord might be a good solution for you
It is a real-time communication tool and it does have some video chat abilities and it's currently very popular with gamers
They do have this nitro plus plan, which is $10 per user per month
But as you can imagine it's much more suited for the personal gamer that wants to take it to the next level
But this cord is much more of a relaxed solution for you
Okay, so our final recommendations to you guys is application called chantey
Now we've seen this one about a couple of times it apparently bigs in some AI
being able to give you suggestions on for example tasks and also it has more voice message and
Voice notes you can leave other people and believe this is something that they wanted
People want inside of slack. So that one does offer a free plan and was also four dollars per user per month
So folks as you can imagine it's working out whether your team actually needs a team communication tool
like slack or like most of teams or the others we mentioned and
Sometimes you can either bake that into your project manager or keep things more asynchronous through email
but I think it's moving away from the days of necessarily internal email being the focus and focusing all of you email on just
External effort so folks. Hopefully that was helpful. Please do subscribe if you're brand new
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