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Phil Simon
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June 10, 2020

Slack For Dummies

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Overview

You get so much more done when you Slack!

Ever wondered what it would be like to be less overwhelmed, more efficient, and much more engaged at work? A way you can make all that happen is, of course, to Slack. Actually, it's to use Slack, the business communications platform that's revolutionized how groups work together. This comprehensive guide shows how--as well as why--there are now millions of users of this flexible, fun, and intuitive workspace tool.

Presented in a clear, easy-to-follow style, Slack For Dummies takes you from the basics of getting started

with the service all the way through how to get your teams Slacking together for all they're worth. You'll also find case studies showing how Slack increases productivity and how to replicate that in your organization, as well as tips on getting buy-in from the boss.

  • Introduce Slack to your workflo
  • wUnderstand roles and feature
  • sAnalyze user dat
  • aKeep your Slacking secure

So, take a peek inside and discover how you can cut the slack using Slack--and clue your teams in on how there is actually a way to Slack off for improved results!

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About The Author

Phil Simon is a frequent keynote speaker, dynamic trainer, recognized technology authority, and college professor-for-hire. He is the award-winning author of ten books, most recently Slack For Dummies and Zoom For Dummies. He consults organizations on matters related to communications, strategy, data, and technology. His contributions have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and many other prominent media sites. He hosts the podcast Conversations About Collaboration.

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Slack allows you to easily communicate and collaborate with your colleagues as well as people outside of your organization. As a result, Slack drastically reduces your reliance upon email. But those capabilities are just the tip of Slack’s iceberg.Slack channels allow organizations to be far more transparent. Think of them as buckets of information around a central topic.
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Are you new to Slack or trying to maximize the tool? Here, you find ten quick tips on getting started with Slack, getting it to stick in your organization, and maximizing its benefits. No, it’s not a comprehensive list of what to do and not to do, but this top-ten list should get you started, at the very least.
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Let’s go old school for a moment and forget about contemporary technology to get a feel for how Slack helps enable your collaborative efforts. Imagine a world without computers, smartphones, apps, and even the Internet.Think about a massive brick-and-mortar town hall meeting. Everyone can gather around for a group announcement.
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Slack offers a number of different plans to its customers. Slack’s pricing varies by plan and To state the obvious: the Free version of Slack is the least expensive one. Slack’s Free plan This starter plan allows organizations and their employees to try Slack gratis. The Free version lets you take advantage of a decent amount of Slack’s functionality, but members under this plan can view only a workspace’s most recent 10,000 messages.
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At a high level, Slack apps perform different functions around communication, collaboration, automation, and more. If you have a chance, please take the time to explore them on your own. You can find all public apps in the Slack App Directory.Like many companies that have launched app stores, Slack vets each individual app before making it available to the public.
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Ideally, you’ll already be discovering a lot about Slack after you first begin to use the application. Hopefully, your head is spinning — in a good way. That is, you are thinking about innovative and interesting ways to use Slack at work and maybe even at home.Still, it’s difficult to learn every feature of a robust and dynamic collaboration and communication tool — especially one like Slack that consistently releases exciting new features.
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You create as many Slack channels as you like. Each Slack channel requires a unique name. That is, you can’t create two #development channels within the same Slack workspace. Also, you’ll want to give your channels descriptive names.For example, you don’t want to christen your company’s marketing channel #payroll.
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Although optional, user groups serve a number of valuable purposes in Slack. First, Workspace Owners and Admins can use them to add members to different public and private Slack channels en masse. Techies usually need to see different information than accountants do. In higher education, nontenured professors usually don’t need to view messages meant for their tenure-track brethren.
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At a high level, Slack notifications call attention to all the things in a workspace that interest you. To be fair, that’s a potentially a big bucket. More specifically, you can set you Slack notifications when any or all of the following events take place: Someone sends you a DM Someone mentions you in a channel by using @username Someone mentions @everyone in a channel Someone uses one of your keywords Slackbot reminds you to do something Of course, you can tweak each of these settings.
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Slack allows you to easily communicate and collaborate with your colleagues as well as people outside of your organization. As a result, Slack drastically reduces your reliance upon email. But those capabilities are just the tip of Slack’s iceberg.Slack channels allow organizations to be far more transparent. Think of them as buckets of information around a central topic.
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Slack is a great collaboration tool. You can segment audiences into channels to help support your employee’s collaboration efforts. Currently, Slack allows for four different types of channels depending on the Slack plan your organization has chosen: Public Private Multi-workspace channels (for Enterprise Grid customers only) Shared Conceptually, each type of channel serves the same general purpose.
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Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge. This is what many in the business world call a backronym: a contrived acronym. To be sure, the business world has seen plenty of backronyms. In the case of Slack, though, the term happens to be entirely fitting.Slack is “where work happens.” This is the pithy answer — and the one that adorns the company’s website.
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