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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

Summary

In this chapter, we again learned about bots, but on an advanced level. We can now appreciate the difference between these types of bots and our beloved assistant Slackbot and know how to set up and create our very own version. We were introduced to existing frameworks to avoid the ultimate code creation and know the importance of testing our bots before we push them live into our workspaces. Now that we have an appreciation for both the basic and advanced levels of learning what Slack has to offer, it's time to learn how to spot when the right moments are to utilize each.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to identify when it's best to buy or build your bots. We know the difference between Slackbot and a regular bot and how to build our own. Yet, in some instances, for the not-so-technically-inclined, it may make more sense to purchase a pre-designed bot or completely outsource some of the more labor-intensive and detailed work. We'll go into detail...