What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Slack, explains what Slack is and how to know whether it is the right fit for you and your company. We go through the pros and cons of Slack and whether it's useful for people deciding to use Slack internally.
Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Slack Workplace, covers setting up the logistics of your Slack workspace, as well as understanding the three tiers of Slack's hierarchy.
Chapter 3, Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks, covers the best Slack tips and tricks for your business team. This chapter covers tons of Slack features that are normally unknown to the bulk of its users.
Chapter 4, Onboarding Your Team to Slack, helps you understand how to provide the most helpful and welcoming experience for new hires and already existing team members.
Chapter 5, Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners, covers branching beyond your direct team to bring agencies, consultants, freelancers, and external partners into your workspace.
Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, takes a deeper dive into the ways that bots can impact your workspace and help things run more efficiently by understanding Slack's in-app bot: Slackbot.
Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools, shows you how to implement helpful additional tools to help manage time, increase productivity, and engage users once your team is up and running.
Chapter 8, Automate Your Workflow with Zapier, walks you through how to get the most out of Zapier, one of the most popular and useful integrations for Slack.
Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, covers learning how to integrate complex services with the Slack API to go beyond the integrations provided through the app.
Chapter 10, Building Your Own Bot, covers understanding which platform is best to build your bot on using existing code, pushing the bot live, and testing it.
Chapter 11, Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot, and Outsource, teaches you how to recognize when it's best to buy, build, or outsource your own bot.
Chapter 12, Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory, covers placing your bot on the market for others to utilize in their own workspace through the Slack App Directory.