Seeking Ideas to Boost Engagement in Slack Community Channels and Initiatives

August 14, 2026

hi all! i'm running a Slack community at the moment and it's a little bit lacking in terms of engagement. looking for suggestions of initiatives / channels you've launched that you think have really helped engagement?

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Areej A.
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Can you tell me more about your community and who it's for? Happy to think of some ideas for you
abigail.davies
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Thank you!! It's for in house lawyers
abigail.davies
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we do online workshops/sessions, have a jobs channel, post content
Natasha K.
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ahhh i JUST hosted an event exactly for this for the Slack community group here in Toronto haha I def think keep it under 5-7 channels if you can so you don't spread out activity too much Some small tactics that build up over time that I personally like:
tag people in to respond to questions from others if you know they're good champions in the community
do some fun polls on a consistent weekly cadence (this can be about whatever you want but you'll see me doing this in the 🔒[private feed] channel with my QOTW haha and then idk if you've ever been in the Old Girls Club Slack but they have a 'check in rituals' channel that does SUPER well because its a low lift to respond (screenshot of this attached))
in person events if you can manage it!! even one a quarter at a casual coffee shop can go a long way to humanizing people behind the screen
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Shaheryar A.
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Hi abigail.davies, have you tried running one to one member networking programs? It's helped out our community. I've set some up before so let me know if you need help.
abigail.davies
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Thanks! Natasha K.
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abigail.davies
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Shaheryar A. - how did that work? People sign up and we match make?
abigail.davies
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Love this idea!