Guide to launching Coda with your team

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Best practices for a successful launch.

Below are the key practices for successfully introducing Coda to your team or organization. The rest of this guide will walk you through each of these points to guarantee a smooth launch.

Define the problem.

When introducing Coda, it’s important to clearly articulate the particular issue or opportunity that Coda will tackle. Demonstrating how Coda improves productivity, increases efficiency, and/or addresses existing challenges helps emphasize the value and advantages of Coda, making its importance and potential impact more apparent to others.

Prepare for change.

Involving decision-makers, influencers, and enthusiasts from the start will help to garner support, collect feedback, and spark enthusiasm for Coda. These individuals play a crucial role in championing the roll out: addressing concerns and facilitating a seamless transition for the entire team.

Establish onboarding roles.

Establishing clear onboarding roles is essential for promoting clarity, enhancing efficiency, and setting expectations for a successful onboarding to Coda. Your Customer Success team will use these same terms to help align goals and fostering collaboration.

Encourage a set of norms to integrate Coda into your existing workflows.

Some of our favorites are as follows:

📆 Put your doc link in calendar invites.

Include a direct link to the relevant Coda doc in your recurring calendar invites. The example below shows Coda’s recurring company meeting with the accompanying Coda doc where information about the meeting is located.

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🌐 Install the Coda Chrome extension.

The Chrome Extension makes it easy to search across all your docs—and you can also bookmark into tables as you’re browsing the web.

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🧷 Add Coda docs to Slack channels.

Pin a doc link to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel for easy access to team hubs or other relevant docs/playbooks.

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🔎 Utilize the doc list search.

Search across all docs you have access to across your entire workspace, all from your docs homepage.

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⭐ Bookmark pages within Coda doc.

Add a shortcut to the most frequently-used pages in a larger doc. These bookmarks are personalized by user and stay visible to you when pages are hidden.

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📁Add docs to team folders.

Folders keep docs organized by group or team. Encourage your team to put relevant docs into designated folders.

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Communicate effectively.

By using various communication channels, teams can effectively share information and involve employees during a launch. Mixing asynchronous platforms like emails and Slack/Teams with synchronous methods like all-hands meetings and demos will help teammates to stay well-informed and engaged.

Monitor and evaluate.

By monitoring usage metrics through your admin dashboard,

Admin API⁠

, or

doc stats⁠

, you can stay informed on how your content is being used. This data offers insights into audience engagement, guiding decisions for future updates or enhancements. Monitoring usage goes beyond numbers; it's about understanding the impact of your work and how it resonates with your audience.

Celebrate successes.

Recognize and celebrate successful docs and use cases within the company. This helps sustain enthusiasm and encourages further adoption.

Onboard new employees to Coda.

Embed Coda in your onboarding experience to encourage adoption from day one. Better yet, create your new employee onboarding path as a Coda template! Get started with

these tips.⁠

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Planning your launch⁠

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