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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 dove further into what it means to work with members outside of your immediate workspace team. We discovered how to incorporate outside guests, partners, clients, and customers into shared channels and interactive sessions. We learned how to set up a call and video through direct messages and channels and how to invite internal and external guests to join. We set up a means to develop manageable communication standards within channels and created expectations for how to respect and respond to customer-based feedback. Having become proficient in communicating verbally with all types of members within your company, we will now dive into the digital mechanics of maintaining your workspace in the most efficient way possible.

In the next chapter, we'll get a better understanding of what Slackbot is and how it functions. We'll focus on the difference between commands, understanding the ways bots can impact your workspace and help run things more efficiently...