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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

Zapier based on your business

Zapier can be utilized in any Slack workspace for any part of your organization. But, although your company may exist as a singular unit, there are a variety of teams that work together to achieve a final product. For these teams and types of organizations, Zapier has specific Zaps and functions that exist to make communicating and working simpler and more efficient for every member of your team.

In this section, we'll focus on the project management, customer support, social, and e-commerce aspects of your organization and how to automate them through Zapier's integration tool, Zaps.

Project management

Every company has some form of project management involvement across their teams. Whether it's a specific team designated for it or a role every member takes on in some form, there's never been a job that's needed the help of Zapier more. For example, when your project management team sends out a form, use the following...