#MicrosoftTeams includes also private chats, not just #teamwork teams and channels. What are benefits of these? How do you #survive through private chats #TeamsTuesday
- You can favorite (star) or unfavorite chats with persons or groups
- Favorited chats can be rearranged in Teams: put most used chats on top
- Meeting chats can be favorited too. Did you had a meeting with good conversation and you don’t want to loose it? Favorite it so you can get back to it later.
- You can initiate a call from chat
- You can share files to chat, files go into your OneDrive4B
- You can add more people to group chat, and option to include all chat history for them to view to catch up
- You can mute chat to disable notifications (I use this very often!)
- You can leave a chat that no longer applies to you
- You can send a quick private chat message to persons or chat groups directly from Team’s search box: @-mention a person or group and type in your message without loosing a team focus
When private chats are useful
- Part of the non-channel meeting
- Topics that need to be out of team channels (classified, out of team topic)
- Personal messaging (instead of Skype or WhatsApp)
- A group of people that don’t form a natural team
- Out of work topics, i.e. fun stuff
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