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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about a new function of the Slack App Directory and how to use it to spread awareness and the use of your completed app. We prepped your app by going through the checklist and understanding what factors make an app suitable for public use across the platform. We submitted the app for approval and, once receiving the go-ahead, pushed it live by publishing it to the directory. We learned how to maintain our live app by keeping it constantly updated and if we reached a point where we could no longer take care of it, how to completely remove it from the app directory. We worked from the ground up, learning about and understanding the many features, tools, and skills of Slack, and now, you're on your own.

You've officially completed your journey through Slack. To summarize the entire book, you developed a basic understanding of Slack as a communication platform in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Slack, and the benefits of using Slack over...