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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

What’s Slackbot?

Do you remember Microsoft Office Assistant’s infamous paperclip friend Clippy? Slackbot is Slack’s very own version of Clippy – only more. Slackbot is your full-time friend, helper, and assistant all in one. Any type of member and guest alike (on any paid or free plan) can utilize the benefits of Slackbot to set reminders, automated messages, responses, and tasks in direct messages, channels, or both across your Slack workspace. Yes, that’s a lot. Let’s break it down. Once you activate your account, Slackbot will introduce itself to you in a private direct message:

Figure 6.1 – Every Slack account has its own Slackbot direct message

Essentially, Slackbot is a chatbot available to receive and respond to you or any of your members' questions within the Slack interface. Unlike Siri, your verbal Apple support assistant, Slackbot is limited to the range of the Slack Help Center and therefore...

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