Strengthen organizational communication with new Space manager’s capabilities available in Chat Space.
Google Chat is a great tool for collaboration and communication among teams. It provides an effective way to collaborate on projects, brainstorm ideas, share files, assign tasks or stay connected with your team members. Early 2023, Google enabled new abilities for Chat Space’s managers, now they can customize selection on new features from “Space Settings” which include:
– Member Management: With this new feature, Space managers are able to control whether members can add or remove other members or groups from Space or not.
– Space Configuration: Space managers can determine whether members can modify Space details, such as name, icon, description, and guidelines. They can also choose to turn Chat history on or off for the space as well.
– Conversation Moderation: It authorizes Space managers to determine if members can use @all in a space.
Source: Google Workspace Updates
In addition, Google recently updated the latest feature “create announcement” for Space managers to configure Spaces for sharing organizational announcements.
– Create Announcement: This feature will act more as a bulletin board update in Chat Space rather than a chat conversation among teams. Posting is limited only to Space managers, it is one-way communication in Google Chat.
To start the setting, once creating the Space, navigate to the Advanced settings and select the option “Only Space managers can post”. Please be noted that you can’t modify the setting to restrict posting to Space Managers after a space is created.
Source: Google Workspace Updates
However, existing Space managers are capable of assigning “The role of Space manager” to other members, allowing them to post messages and perform other tasks as noted. They’ll also have complete control over these announcements, including the ability to post directly, reply in threads, add files, and modify the space’s settings. By the way, if they are not Space Manager, it will appear in the text bar: “Posting is limited” to Space Manager.
Source: Google Workspace Updates
With these several improvements empowering Space’s manager roles, they have more capabilities on member management in terms of access and permission granting. Moreover, they can create an announcement which is one-way controlled communication in Google Chat. It can promote healthier conversation and improve communication within teams and across organizations.
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Source: Google Workspace Updates