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Slack: Less email. More productive.
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(1,684 ratings)
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Slack: Less email. More productive.

Learn how to use slack to enjoy a simpler and more productive work life.
Created byUri Soglowek
Last updated 2/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • Learn how to use slack
  • integrate Slack on their daliy communications
  • Improve your productivity
  • Reduce internal commnications

Course content

4 sections • 34 lectures • 1h 33m total length

  • Welcome To Slack Course0:57

    Navigate Slack’s interface, manage teams and channels, and direct message others. Share documents and photos, use polls and reminders, and integrate Google Docs, Google Calendar, Twitter, and Trello.

  • What is Slack?5:57

    Discover how Slack replaces email with real-time messaging, enabling private channels, direct messages, and app integrations for searchable, all-in-one team communication.

  • Access Slack from the Web1:37

    Visit slack.com to access Slack from the web, download desktop apps for mac, windows, and linux, and use mobile apps for iOS and Android to sign in with your team.

  • Installing the Windows app0:46

    learn how to download and install the Windows slack desktop app from slack.com, launch it, and sign in by entering your team name or creating a new team.

  • Installing the Mac app1:19

    Install the Slack MacBook Pro and mobile apps by visiting Slack.com, selecting see all apps, and downloading from the App Store; then open Slack to continue.

  • Create a new team5:01

    Learn to create a new Slack team by signing up with your email, naming your team, choosing a web address, setting a username, and sending invitations.

  • Basic understanding of the interface2:46

    Explore the Slack interface on Mac, navigate channels and direct messages, manage Slack bot permissions and admin restrictions, adjust preferences, invite members, while using powerful search.

  • Understanding of the Slack interface4:10

    Explore the Slack interface, including channels, direct messages, team settings, preferences, search, and the quick switcher, to manage communication and stay productive.

  • Creating channels1:21

    Create public or private Slack channels to organize discussions by subject or group and invite members. Set up a training channel to discuss training ideas and assign a clear purpose.

  • General Preferences4:49

    Explore how to tailor Slack with personal preferences: notifications, do not disturb, themes, display options, emoji style, link previews, side bar, search exclusions, and read behavior.

  • Channel Setting5:07

    Master Slack channel preferences to tailor notifications, do not disturb, message density, display of names, emoji style, media previews, sidebar themes, search behavior, and read-status with auto-scroll for efficient collaboration.

  • Creating and shring a post4:07

    Create and share posts in Slack, edit with rich text options, pin important documents to channels like courses, and collaborate in real time across devices.

  • Importing a google drive document3:50

    Import a Google Docs file into Slack by pasting its link, authorize Slack to integrate with Google Docs, and manage it via pinned items for quick access.

  • Uploading a picture2:46

    Upload a picture to Slack, rename if needed, share with your team, and add comments, reactions, and links for collaborative review.

  • Communicating regarding a picture1:57

    Chat about a specific file in Slack by using the file chat window to comment, view, and coordinate actions, saving time and avoiding full-channel discussions.

Requirements

  • Internet connection
  • Computer, Smartphone or tablet

Description

Did you hear about Slack but not sure how to use it?

Want to organize your team communication?

Want to be more productive?

You've come to the right place!

Slack users help people to enjoy a simpler, more pleasant, and more productive work life.

Modern communication is problematic, you send an e-mail, get a message on Facebook, WhatsApp from you teammate to send a file you were talking about in the meeting, so you copy it to you google drive and share or send it by email just to discover later you forgot where it was and where did you get that question about that document? Facebook? WhatsApp? google chat? SMS?

Managing your daily communication with your colleague using different platforms can take a lot of time and effort leaving you less time to work and even lesser time to enjoy life.

After adopting Slack, team owners reported:

1. their team became more productive by 32%

2. they reduce their internal email by 48.6%

3. they managed to reduce their meetings by 25.1%

4. Slack made finding information easier for team members by 62.4%

If your free time is important to you as my free time is to me you HAVE TO learn to use Slack.

Slack brings everything you need for teamwork in one place, conversations happen in open channels, one for each project or one for each team, you can upload files, drop links to Dropbox or Google Docs, post a picture, create a poll to get a quick survey done, throw ideas around and get feedback from your team, make important announcements, see what’s going on on Twitter, set reminders for groups or individuals in your team, pin important messages or posts in a specific channel and much more.

If you are new to the team you are not met by an empty inbox, Slack will give you an instant access to the collective knowledge created by the team, all the shared documents and files and the specific discussions about them.

Slack's easy to use and powerful search engine will search every channel, every direct message, every post and every document and every link ever uploaded and tell you where what you are looking for is.

You can access Slack from your computer, mobile phone and even your web browser, every file and every important piece of data your teams need is always there. accessible from the office, home, train, car and everywhere else you might be.

This course will give you the tools to use Slack so you and your team have the ability to do whatever you do as well as you possibly can!

More productivity, more efficiency, means you have more time to enjoy life with your loved ones.

Who this course is for:

  • People who would like to learn Slack
  • People looking to improve communicatinos across business
  • Business Owners
  • Project Managers
  • Team Leaders

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