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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Understanding the cost and time to outsource a bot

You can build your own, as well as buy your own, but what happens when you need a combination of both, when you don't have the time to build, but you can't find exactly what you're looking for already on the market?

This is where the concept of outsourcing comes into play.

Outsourcing is a unique tool that allows you to utilize external resources to essentially do the work for you. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals selling their time and skills online for this very purpose. But, before you go ahead and contract out your bot to an external freelancer or company, it's important to understand how to prep yourself to discover the right outlet to outsource to. In this section, we'll walk you through how to find freelancers, consultants, or agencies that focus on building Slack apps and bots for you.

Finding freelancers

Freelancing has become a popular way of outsourcing work by hiring...