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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

Slack Stats and Analytics

It may seem strange to compare numbers to positive communication habits. However, Slack allows you to simplify this foreign concept and track trends in your channels and monitor how your workspace is being used. This can be something as simple as seeing where people send the most messages and files, whether it's public or private channels, and the overall count of messages being sent between your members.

Slack compiles all this information into its Analytics dashboard, where it offers various filters that can sort the information you're looking for based on what team members most respond to.

Analytics dashboard

Like any dashboard, Slack Analytics uses specific lingo to easily identify types of members using your workspace. Workspace Analytics is only updated once a day and cannot be manually adjusted.

Active members are broken down like so:

  • Weekly active members: The number of members who have posted/read a message in a public...