You can reach pretty much anyone from Philly’s tech scene via Slack DM.

It’s something I learned early on when I first started covering this community eight months ago. Just as often as someone hands me a business card, they’ll tell me to find them on Slack.

“Shoot me a message on Slack, we’ll set something up.”

If you’ve worked for a company of any size in the last five years, you’ve probably used the colorful, module messaging platform, which both offers organization-wide communication and channels for specific teams, departments or interests. (We here at Technical.ly have a #v-good-animals channel, a place to share pictures of our pets along with, well — any other v good animals.)

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