Agenda
- Benefits
- Walk through
- Setting up new users
- Popular Channels
- Integrations + Apps
- Chat bots
Benefits
- Reduce the amount of emails and minimise the need for long email threads
- Get hold of people across the business allot faster
- Reduce the amount of unnecessary meetings
- Create a channels to calrify details that are lost and mis-interepated in email
Walk Through
- Channels
- Public
- Private
- Direct Messages (DM)
- User Groups
- Shortcuts (Slash commands)
- By typing the / key, there are a list of shortcuts that make slack allot faster/easier to use
- https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201259356-Using-slash-commands
- Voice calls
- Notifications from other tools/services
Popular Channels
- General
- Random
- Tech
- Digital First Floor
- Product
- Design/UX
Apps + Intergrations
Like your phone, slack has allot of apps that add new features to the platform to make it even easier to use, you can check out the app directory here:
https://hearstuk.slack.com/apps
Apps we are using:
- RSS feeds
- JIRA
- Google Anlaytics
- Schedule meetings (meekan)
- Google hangout
- Skype
- Giphy
Chat bots
- Slackbot (https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202026038-Slackbot-personal-assistant-and-helpful-bot-)
- Built into slack, helps you get setup and can answer questions you have about slack
- Growbot (https://hearstuk.slack.com/apps/A0DV3EEN4-growbot)
- Encourages and listens for team appreciation, automatically adding positive reactions and saving team wins forever.
- Statsbot (https://hearstuk.slack.com/apps/A0GP9E18S-statsbot)
- Pull in stats from our sites using Google Analytics into slack
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