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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Markovich
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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

4.9 (10)
By: 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)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

The most common Slack apps and integrations

There are hundreds of apps to utilize within the Slack workspace. We could literally write a whole other book describing them all. It's difficult to pick and choose which ones to highlight over the others and that's why it's important that you and your members do your own research within the Slack App Directory as well as finding out which apps fit the needs of your team. The Slack App Directory offers App Collections, Slack Picks, and varying other categories, such as Daily Tools, to help narrow your search process:

Figure 7.11 – Daily tools offered on the Slack App Directory

To make life simpler, we broke down a few key apps every workspace has a unique use for. In the following sections, we will look at some of the most common Slack apps and integrations.

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