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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

Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

While Slack itself is a unique and useful tool at the fingertips of you and your team, we've learned that there are many other applications that assist in producing the most efficient workspace. Whether it be any of the Google Drive options or a standalone tool such as Dropbox, Slack works to make the sharing process between you and your members as seamless as possible.

But what about the other factors of your company/organization that come into play? What about your email contacts, calendar events, and data collected via other sources? All of these currently have a home in a separate space.

This is where Zapier joins the Slack picture!

Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools, prepped you for the concept of Slack integrations. Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, introduced you to the world of bots and some of the technical, albeit complex, aspects of coding. Now we're going to show you the one-stop easy tool that allows...