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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

This chapter taught us how to integrate some of our favorite external applications into our Slack workspace. We discovered the Slack App Directory and the thousands of app options and categories it has to offer teams, bettering communication; onboarding; and sharing files, documents, schedules, and even tweets directly in your Slack messages and channels. We discussed some of the best and most popular apps to download and learned how to find the right apps to fit the needs and culture of our workspace. With a wide variety of options at our disposal, we're now going to shift gears to focus on a particular integration to simplify the apps you bring into your workspace.

In the next chapter, we'll take on an even easier way to make this merge possible: Zapier. We'll discover how this integration tool creates workflows, or "Zaps," for your channel, automating them, finding the right plan, and ultimately bringing your outside information and applications...