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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)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Types of channels

All the different Slack features listed in this channel come to life in your Slack workspace, as discussed in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Slack Workspace. To ensure your team is primed for effective collaboration on Slack, you will want to utilize Slack channels to create a flow of conversation, teams, and projects right through your workspace.

A channel is a place for your team to share messages, files, and tools around a particular topic, as stated in the channel's topic and description. Some common channels you can utilize on Slack would be #general (for companywide updates and messages), #random (for water-cooler conversation), and #support (for tech troubleshooting).

There are many different channel types, and each has a particular purpose when it comes to making your Slack conversations efficient and purposeful.

Public versus private Slack channels

Slack understands that certain collaborations need to happen with either a full team or select...