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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
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

Up until this point, we’ve discussed how to communicate with all different types of members of your team. From workspace owners, admins, team members, clients, and partners, to guests, we’ve broken down the varying ways to interact within your workspace through channels, threads, and direct messages. What we’re yet to connect is the digital members of your team.

Chapter 5, Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners, showed us how to better communicate with external members of our team through shared channels while also providing tips on how to call and video chat within your workspace. Now we are going to take a deeper dive into the ways that your mechanical members – bots – can impact your workspace and help things run more efficiently.

In this chapter, we will cover these crucial topics:

  • Learning what Slackbot is, what it can do, and the differences between commands
  • Understanding...