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| Introduction |
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| Part 1: Working Smarter And Better With Slack |
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Chapter 1 Why Slack Exists |
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Meeting Slack's Users and Customers |
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Understanding Why Slack Exists |
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Email: The blessing and all-too-frequent curse |
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Trapped institutional knowledge |
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Employees often can't find what they want - quickly or even at all |
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What Slack Specifically Does |
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Chapter 2 Getting Started with Slack |
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Reviewing Slack's Different Versions |
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Describing Slack's cost structure |
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Beginning Your Slack Journey with the Workspace |
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Creating a new Slack workspace |
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Signing in to an existing Slack workspace |
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Accessing your new workspace |
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Using the Slack desktop app |
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Introducing the Slack user interface |
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Summarizing Slack's Different Roles and Permissions |
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Enterprise Grid roles and permissions |
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Starting Your New Workspace Off on the Right Foot |
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Expanding your existing workspace |
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Configuring your member profile and key account settings |
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| Part 2: Communicating Without Chaos |
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Chapter 3 Targeting Your Communication with Slack Channels |
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Introducing Slack Channels |
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Exploring the Different Types of Slack Channels |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (2) |
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Creating Public and Private Channels |
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Creating your first public channel |
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Building an intelligent channel structure |
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Viewing basic channel information |
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Performing Channel Actions |
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Adding Members to Existing Channels |
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Default workplace channels |
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Exploring Existing Public Channels |
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Communicating via Slack Channels |
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Posting simple channel messages |
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Understanding channel etiquette |
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Chapter 4 The Wonderful World of Slack Messages |
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Understanding Slack Messages |
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92 | (19) |
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Performing basic message actions |
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Finding people in your workspace |
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Setting message-specific reminders |
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Saving DMs and channel messages |
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Pinning DMs to conversations |
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Creating special types of messages |
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Converting group DMs into private channels |
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Using threads to create topic-specific containers |
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111 | (5) |
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Comparing Email and Slack |
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Forwarding Email to Slack |
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Communicating Outside of Slack |
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Chapter 5 Staying. Informed with Notifications, Statuses, and Feeds |
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Getting Your Arms around Notifications |
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Managing Slack notifications |
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Reviewing the different types of Slack notifications |
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Letting Others Know Your Availability |
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Viewing your colleagues' statuses |
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Setting yourself to away/active |
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Unplugging with Do Not Disturb mode |
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Configuring Device-Specific Notifications |
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Enabling notifications on mobile devices |
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Understanding when settings collide |
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Finding Other Ways to Stay Current |
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Receiving emails on recent activity |
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Viewing mentions and reactions |
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| Part 3: Becoming A Slack Power User |
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Chapter 6 Going Deeper into Slack's Functionality |
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143 | (6) |
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144 | (4) |
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Sharing Your Screen in Slack |
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Saving Even More Time in Slack |
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Invoking keyboard shortcuts |
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Managing Your Life with Reminders |
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Quickly accessing your saved items |
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Chapter 7 Finding What You Need with Slack's Powerful Search Techniques |
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Searching for Better Search Methods |
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160 | (1) |
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Performing Searches in Slack |
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Searching by workspace members |
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Restricting searches to specific date ranges |
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Referencing multiple keywords |
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Restricting search results even more |
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Searching by user reactions |
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Searching by additional modifiers |
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Getting the Most Out of Search in Slack |
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Remember that results change over time |
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Chapter 8 Personalizing Slack |
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Getting to Know Your Slack Options |
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174 | (11) |
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Configuring global workspace settings |
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175 | (4) |
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Personalizing your Slack options |
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Customizing User Profiles |
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Chapter 9 Keeping It Safe: Reviewing Slack's Security and Privacy Settings |
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Getting Acquainted with Slack Security |
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194 | (1) |
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Security and Slack's Evolution |
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194 | (1) |
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Configuring Slack's Access and Security Settings |
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Confirming sign-ins via email |
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Enabling two-factor authentication |
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Additional security features |
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200 | (1) |
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Enhancing Security via Slack Enterprise Grid |
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201 | (1) |
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Examining Privacy in Slack |
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202 | (6) |
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What data Workspace Admins can Access |
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204 | (1) |
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Workspace message-retention settings |
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204 | (3) |
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Understanding Slack's Tricky Regulatory Environment |
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Restrictions on data and file retention |
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| Part 4: Extending Slack's Native Functionality |
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Chapter 10 Making Slack Hum with Robust Third-Party Apps |
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Understanding How Slack Has Embraced Platform Thinking |
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214 | (1) |
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Comparing Public and Private Apps |
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Private apps and integrations |
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Enhancing Slack with Third-Party Apps |
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216 | (2) |
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Introducing Some Popular Slack Apps |
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File- and content-sharing apps |
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Productivity and project-management apps |
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Email apps and integrations |
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Finding and Installing Apps |
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227 | (4) |
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Browsing the Slack App Directory |
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228 | (1) |
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Installing a Slack app in your workspace |
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Searching for specific apps |
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Experimenting with new apps |
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230 | (1) |
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Managing Apps and App Permissions |
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Regulating workspace apps |
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Viewing all your workspace apps |
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Enforcing your organization's app policy |
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Removing apps from your workspace |
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Disabling and re-enabling preserved apps |
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Viewing app activity logs |
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Heeding workflow warnings |
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Chapter 11 Analyzing, Importing, Exporting, and Updating Slack User Data |
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Slack's analytics dashboard |
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Channel-specific analytics |
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Viewing Member Access Logs |
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Moving Data Around in Slack |
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Exporting data from Slack |
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Importing data into Slack |
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Consolidating Slack workspaces |
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Avoiding mistakes when migrating data |
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Performing Mass Updates to User Data |
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Chapter 12 Integrating Slack with Popular Enterprise Systems |
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A Brief Primer on Enterprise Systems |
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Slack and Current Enterprise Systems |
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Exploring current system integrations |
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Creating new system integrations |
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| Part 5: Successfully Introducing Slack In The Workspace |
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Chapter 13 The Elements of Persuasion: Slack-Adoption Strategies |
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A Brief Primer on Network Effects |
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278 | (1) |
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Reviewing the Different Slack-Adoption Approaches |
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Making Slack Stick at Work |
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Organization-level strategies |
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Strategies for handling difficult employees |
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Chapter 14 The Inherent Risks of Deploying Slack |
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Identifying the Risks of Using Slack |
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Technology and security risks |
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Listing Slack's Environmental Challenges |
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Slack's financial pressures |
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Ongoing legal and privacy concerns |
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Chapter 15 The Future of Slack: We're Just Getting Started |
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Increased Use of Automation and Bots |
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316 | (3) |
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Al and machine learning make Slack smarter - much, much smarter |
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Slack begins to monitor employee morale and diagnose cultural issues |
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Tighter Integration with Popular Enterprise Systems |
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319 | (1) |
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Better Dashboards and Analytics |
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319 | (1) |
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A More Powerful Slack Work Graph |
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320 | (2) |
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Continued Borrowing of Popular Features from Other Apps |
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Key Acquisitions and Partnerships |
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| Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 16 Ten Great Slack Tips |
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Respond Promptly to New Users' Requests, Questions, and Feedback |
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Regularly View Slack Analytics |
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Tread Lightly with New Hires |
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Establish Slack as the Default Medium for Internal Communication |
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Emphasize Slack's Carrots More Than Its Sticks |
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Keep an Eye Out for New Slack Apps |
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Tell Overly Exuberant Slack Members to Tone It Down |
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Publicize Your Status and Availability |
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Know When to Turn Slack Off |
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Chapter 17 Ten or So Common Slack Myths |
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Slack Decimates the Need for Email |
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All Organizations Configure Slack in a Uniform Way |
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Slack Obviates the Need for In-Person Communication |
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Slack Solves Every Conceivable Business-Communication Problem |
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Slack Is Too Expensive for Our Company |
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335 | (1) |
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Our Company Has Built a Tool That's Just as Good as Slack |
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Our Employees Don't Need Slack |
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Our Company Uses Slack and Nothing Else for Collaboration |
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Chapter 18 The Top Ten or So Slack Resources |
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339 | (8) |
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340 | (1) |
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Browsing the Slack support site |
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340 | (1) |
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Opening cases or making suggestions within the Slack app |
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340 | (1) |
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Submitting Slack feature requests |
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