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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

Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

Now that we have your team up and running, it's time to get down to business. We've developed communication channels and honed your company culture and language through regular members, guests, partners, and clients as well as mechanical bots. Your team has the backbone for success; now it needs the tools to set it into motion.

In Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, we broke down Slackbot. We learned how to create our own bots, incorporate them into our workspace, and set them into action in an efficient way that automated typical everyday tasks. As we progress through our Slack education, we'll continue to learn new ways to set up our workspace using the most effective tools and tips. Having mastered Slackbot, we'll focus now on how to implement helpful additional applications in our Slack workspace. In this chapter, we will cover these topics:

  • Learning what a Slack directory is and how to use it
  • Creating...