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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused heavily on an integration tool that can heavily automate your workspace and alleviate many of the menial tasks your team takes an immeasurable amount of time out of their day to complete. Essentially dissecting a new application, we learned what Zapier is and how to find the right plan for your team. We broke down Zapier's workflows, AKA Zaps, and learned how to integrate our Slack workspace while automating Zaps to meet our needs. We even focused on specific teams within our organization and how automating Zaps could benefit their everyday tasks, to-dos, and the ultimate collection of data and information. Overall, we learned how useful a tool Zapier is and how even more integral it becomes when combined with Slack.

In the next chapter, we'll get a closer look at what the Slack API is. Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, briefly touched upon the uses of the Slack API when it comes to incorporating Slackbot into your workspace channels...