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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

You're reading from   Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569621
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moshe Markovich Moshe Markovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Slack Overview
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace 4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks 5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack 6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners 7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot 9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools 10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier 11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes 12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots
13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot 14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot 15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we focused heavily on an integration tool that can heavily automate your workspace and alleviate many of the menial tasks your team takes an immeasurable amount of time out of their day to complete. Essentially dissecting a new application, we learned what Zapier is and how to find the right plan for your team. We broke down Zapier's workflows, AKA Zaps, and learned how to integrate our Slack workspace while automating Zaps to meet our needs. We even focused on specific teams within our organization and how automating Zaps could benefit their everyday tasks, to-dos, and the ultimate collection of data and information. Overall, we learned how useful a tool Zapier is and how even more integral it becomes when combined with Slack.

In the next chapter, we'll get a closer look at what the Slack API is. Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, briefly touched upon the uses of the Slack API when it comes to incorporating Slackbot into your workspace channels...

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