Automation
Not just for lazy people
What is it?
- Recent term (1947 - Ford)
- Technology used to reduce or replace labour
- Consistency of product (reduce human errors)
- Increased throughput
- Better quality products
Early examples
Slow costly human labour
Water powered cotton spinning job replacer
Early Examples
Future centrelink beneficiaries
Thirsty electric switching machine
Automation is
- Identifying manual processes
- Isolating monotonous or repetitive steps
- Applying technology
- Scaling
- ???
- Profit
Automate your mind
- You do boring stuff every day
- What part of it is manual?
- How can you automate it?
1. Can you use tech?
2. Can you pay someone else to do it? - How much time will you save?
- Will automating it save you time?
What to automate?
- Everything
- Bullet Two
- Bullet Three
Email rules are easy
You suck at coding
- It's okay so do Adam and Anna
- But what if you didn't have to code...
Meet Zapier
What Zapier do?
- Integrates with many disparate services
- Automate sequenced workflows
- Does it (mostly) without needing to code
What do we use it for?
What can you do with it?
- Automatically respond to twitter mentions
- Share Wordpress posts on social media (like buffer)
- Record new followers to google sheets (Instagram/twitter)
- Automatically email new Stripe customers
- Notifications of code commits to Slack
- Save Mailchimp subscribers to a list