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Take Control of Slack Basics
Take Control of Slack Basics helps every Slack user. The book starts by explaining how Slack apps work, and then walks you through posting messages, working with file uploads, joining and making channels, handling direct messages, managing notifications, and being productive.
If you’re new to Slack and your business or other group has adopted it, the book teaches you everything you need to know about using Slack efficiently and having fun along the way. Many features resist easy discovery without a helping hand, but you’ll run across a surprising amount of whimsy while using Slack.
If you’ve been using Slack but don’t feel like you’re getting enough out of it, or if it feels like a distraction you want to moderate, the book provides extensive assistance in upping your Slack game, tailoring how Slack alerts you (visually and through mobile and desktop notifications), and an entire chapter on turning down the noise.
If you’re new to Slack and your business or other group has adopted it, the book teaches you everything you need to know about using Slack efficiently and having fun along the way. Many features resist easy discovery without a helping hand, but you’ll run across a surprising amount of whimsy while using Slack.
If you’ve been using Slack but don’t feel like you’re getting enough out of it, or if it feels like a distraction you want to moderate, the book provides extensive assistance in upping your Slack game, tailoring how Slack alerts you (visually and through mobile and desktop notifications), and an entire chapter on turning down the noise.
185 pages, ebook
Published May 31, 2016
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About the author
Glenn Fleishman
80 books226 followersI started writing as a child and never stopped. I’ve always been interested in what makes things tick and how to explain that. That led to a career as a technology journalist and how-to article and book author. I’ve written dozens of books over my career in some combination of the two.
In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper comics from the 1890s to the present.
I live in Seattle, Washington, with my family, and drink very little coffee.
In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper comics from the 1890s to the present.
I live in Seattle, Washington, with my family, and drink very little coffee.
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August 18, 2017
Useful guide
Even though I read several articles and watched tutorial videos about Slack, I still leaned a lot from reading this guide. I've highlighted for review several features and suggestions that Glenn shares. Slack is not hard to use, but there's lots to learn about effectively using the program. This book is helpful in that regard. The guide though could use an update, especially highlighting how Slack now includes threaded messages which is one the reasons I started using it again.
Even though I read several articles and watched tutorial videos about Slack, I still leaned a lot from reading this guide. I've highlighted for review several features and suggestions that Glenn shares. Slack is not hard to use, but there's lots to learn about effectively using the program. This book is helpful in that regard. The guide though could use an update, especially highlighting how Slack now includes threaded messages which is one the reasons I started using it again.
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