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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

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

Setting up your profile

You are now entering the next phase of your Slack learning: setting up the full workspace where your team will collide in a roar of conversation, teamwork, and excitement. Just like downloading Slack applications, creating a workspace is a simple process and can be done via the Slack website.

What is a workspace primary owner?

As the creator of the workspace, you become the workspace primary owner, and this holds a lot of management power when it comes to your workspace. Primary owners act as the administrative authority in a Slack workspace and have final decision-making capabilities. This individual also becomes the Slack customer, and your identity is intertwined with the Slack account.

Tip

As is likely within any company, leadership can change over time. To avoid messy handovers that could happen with the passing of leadership, make a service account for the owner, or share the account information with other members of your team. This is...