# Creative Uses of Discourse **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creative-uses-of-discourse/112251 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [March 21, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creative-uses-of-discourse/112251 "2019-03-21T14:34:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK) #### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creative-uses-of-discourse/112251/3 "2019-03-25T01:38:16Z")
This is a great topic! We use Discourse in a number of ways that deviate from a standard discussion forum. Over the last 6 moths or so we have been exploring the concept of Discourse as a tool for teamwork. Right now we use it - as our [customer support inbox](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444) - to schedule our weekly calls (using discourse-chronos aka local dates) - to do our weekly check-ins (or equavilent of stand-ups) - as a management tool to manage our teams and workload (using discourse-assign) - as a policy and compliance monitoring tool (using discourse-policy) - to manage the onboarding of new team members (using discourse-checklist) - for learning games ( e.g. fix a bug from our logs and then assign to the next another team member) - for collaborating on documentation (using saved drafts) - to track holidays/leave (using discourse-calender) - for system alert monitoring (custom plugin to port alerts as topics into a private instance) More details on some of the above in this blog post: [How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creative-uses-of-discourse/112251)._