Use Slack - To communicate and collaborate effectively
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What is Slack?
Slack is a Digital HQ
As the command center of the workday, Slack provides a flexible way to work with people, apps and partners in one space.
The new space for success
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Transform Teamwork
Working together in channels—dedicated spaces built around specific projects and initiatives—keeps the right people and information in one place.
Embrace Flexibility
Huddles let teams chat over audio instantly, with the option for video and screen sharing with the tap of a button.
Work Faster
With clips, teams can create audio, video and screen recordings to share updates, walk through demos or talk out an idea with more clarity (and personality).
Extend Collaboration
Slack Connect lets users work alongside external partners and customers in Slack channels, to speed up projects and strengthen relationships.
Integrate Tools
From project management tools to a daily calendar, Slack integrates with more than 2,400 applications.
Automate Tasks
In Slack, users can turn routine meetings and tasks like standups, approvals and requests into automated workflows.
Slack Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: File tracking
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
- Supported: Visual planning tools
Communication Features
- Supported: Chat
- Supported: Status updates and activity feed
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Comments and feedback
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User directory and online status
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
- Supported: Surveys
- Supported: Internal knowledgebase
- Supported: Integrates with Skype
- Supported: Integrates with GoToMeeting
- Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
- Supported: Integrates with Outlook
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: Advanced security features
- Supported: Integrates with Google Drive
- Supported: Integrates with SharePoint
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Additional Features
- Supported: Audio Conferencing
- Supported: Video Conferencing
- Supported: Sales Enablement
- Supported: Unified Communications as a Service
- Supported: Meeting Management
- Supported: Encrypted Communications
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Slack Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020.
The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls.
The company has raised $340M in funding and boasts 800k users.
Slack starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Chat highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Slack are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 15, 2024
Use Slack - To communicate and collaborate effectively
We use Slack for internal organizational communication. We have also connected several apps to Slack: 1) CRM to Slack to inform us in specific channels about the deals that we have WON or LOST, 2) Bonusly to inform members when they receive a shoutout from other colleagues in the Organization 3) Google Calendar to automatically update status in Slack when someone is in meetings 4) Lucidchart to share workflow diagrams and 5) Clari to share recordings of calls.
- UI is very user friendly and intuitive
- Huddle feature in Slack saves a lot of time in organizing and sharing links to connect. It comes as a saviour especially when adhoc calls are needed for short durations.
- Ability to segment groups based on your criteria.
- Huddle while a great feature often has issues in terms of connectivity. At least once a week, I face an issue when I am not able to hear the other person or vice versa. Slack can work on improving this further.
- Slack should have an option to add color to FONTS or increase or decrease the font size. I sometimes feel that I have to use the CODE option to mark lines in RED that need attention.
April 08, 2024
Slack - Communication and Collaboration Excellence
I use Slack everyday. it is the primary tool for communication and collaboration between all my team members and the entire organisation. Slack is the most essential tool to get my job done. It helps me connect with anyone in the organisation. I also get alerts on Slack such as when files have been shared with me, calendar alerts, and alerts where Slack had been integrated with internal tools.
- I can see the entire history of all the messages I ah exchanged with a person. I can also have access to all the files we have shared between each other.
- It helps me create groups which facilitates collaboration between multiple stakeholders.
- I can huddle anyone at anytime and the audio is very clear. I have the ability to share my screen as well, which is very helpful.
- I can set reminders to messages and Slack reminds me about them.
- Slack needs to have a task management tool also. This would be very helpful to keep track of my tasks as well as keep a check on my team members tasks.
- I am not aware of many of the automations that can be used in Slack. Conducting educational sessions and providing demos about features would help in adoption of them.
- Sometimes huddle does not work as expected. I witness some glitches where my screen is not shared. But this happens rarely.
April 08, 2024
Easier tool for communication
As a project manager at university, the Slack is very helpful in terms of accessibility and communication with other team members, students, faculty, sharing information is much faster and more organized as it offers different features for communication such as voice recordings, threads, different chatrooms and etc. it really enhances communication
- easier communication
- collaboration
- information sharing
- search feature limitations
- file management
April 06, 2024
convenient tool for communication with teammates
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As an administrative assistant, it is very crucial to communicate with my teammates daily and receive the answers quickly. Slack is very helpful in this matter, because it has the features to have different channels and have them with different themes. option of the voice recording is quite helpful, as it simplifies the information sharing.
- easier communication
- voice messages
- increased efficiency
- notifications have issues
- voice recording transcripts are not accurate
I am using Slack for my daily professional communications and integrations with my apps like Google Docs and Loom Video. I like how it can make channels for each project/task and you can discuss all the details of that specific topic there. I also like the integration of my Project Management software "Trello", because it can tell me about the updates happening in Trello and I can update that cards back by staying in Slack.
- Communication
- Project Management
- File Sharing
- Integrations with various Apps
- Backup of messages for low tier packages
- Nicer way to show the data from integrated apps
- Time zone / Notifications
March 29, 2024
Good tool, but lacking a calendar function is a weakness
Communication tool for the whole company - DM each other, create channels, receive company-wide communications, integrate with software like Zoom and Outlook
- Emojis
- Integration with Zoom (huddle)
- Keeping you organized and up to date
- Hard to find where to create a channel
- It can get overwhelming
- Search
March 23, 2024
Slack is the top app!!
Our entire team is remote. We are a growing franchise with over 60 locations. Our corporate team and all of our growing locations use the platform. Slack makes it feel like we are all in one big office sitting at the table together. We use it for announcements, quick huddles, daily communication, reminders, canvasses, i think we use it for everything under the umbrella of communication.
- entire organization communication
- internal team communication
- reminders
- integrations
- the search feature is not always the best.
March 13, 2024
Slack easy and useful
We use Slack with channel to set specific scope discussions on products, teams and direct chat communications among the employees. It is easy to use and useful to create public and or private channel among colleagues or with customers.
The use of huddle for a voice call and video sharing is very useful.
The use of huddle for a voice call and video sharing is very useful.
- Quick communications
- Ability to reach colleagues very quickly
- Ability to chat with customers quicker than using emails
- Setting of status
- Searching of messages
- Way to organize chats based on tags
March 12, 2024
Loving Slack - changed our working lives!
Great tool for teams who work remote, helps us collaborate well and being cloud based means this is great for in person meetings at the office, as well as on the go from your phone or iPad.
- Teamwork
- Brainstorming
- Collating innovative ideas
- Integration to project planning apps
- Integration with email
- Dashboard to plug in database for dev stats
March 12, 2024
Great collaboration software
We use Slack to communicate in our team and as a business at large. The product allows us to easily communicate and share ideas, files and documents. We can easily jump into huddles to audio or video call with each other. We use it all day every day, it is very smooth and seamless.
- Scheduling messages for later
- Sharing documents and files
- Huddling (video and audio)
- Sharing images
- Integrating with HubSpot and other apps
- Grouping of conversations in one place
- Screen sharing interface on huddles
- HubSpot notifications could be disappearing
March 11, 2024
Game Changer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I wanted to share my positive experience with implementing Slack at work. It has truly been a game-changer for our inter-office communications. Slack has proven to be an excellent tool for connecting with the rest of the team. I find it incredibly user-friendly and efficient, making work easier and more productive. My overall experience with Slack has been fantastic. The platform is intuitive, making team communication seamless and enjoyable. I appreciate how Slack simplifies communication, keeps everything organized, and ensures everyone stays connected. It has become our go-to tool for fostering smooth and enjoyable teamwork. The only problems ( not really problems ) was the initial setup and internal onboarding.
- Team Collaboration
- API Links to other Applications
- User Friendliness
- Mobile experience / great app
- More flexibility on pricing
- Video conferencing
- Knowledge Base
March 11, 2024
Slack is AMAZING!
internal communcations and desk planning for status of vessels (often used as a whiteboard for teams to collaborate infomration before marketing their offers)
- team collaboration
- simple, easy to use interface
- More reliable than Microsoft Teams
- cost and pricing
- huddles and calling
- integrations with 3rd party
March 09, 2024
Usability of Slack.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Communicating and reaching out to Teams and sharing information with everyone. Also, using this to track and find information is really helpful for me as a subject matter expert. This can also help us cascade important reports and announcements. It also helps us to communicate with each other and to support my colleagues.
- Cascading report to our team.
- Escalating the important case.
- Communicating to each other.
- Slightly enhancing the letter font.
- Adding some features that may help.
- Removed some slight glitch.
March 08, 2024
First Choice For Reliable Company Chat
Such a great tool for company communications. Easy to keep overview of everything thats happening, easy to collaborate on projects while working from home.
Slack allows you to create channels for departments and topucs and giving everyone granular access. It's even possible to workw ith externals by giving them guest access to specific channels, or to collaborate with different Sack teams outside of your organisation, simply by linking channels.
Slack allows you to create channels for departments and topucs and giving everyone granular access. It's even possible to workw ith externals by giving them guest access to specific channels, or to collaborate with different Sack teams outside of your organisation, simply by linking channels.
- Clean UX
- Granular notification settings
- Integrated Video calling
- Cross-org collaboration
- Pricey for enterprises
March 06, 2024
Slack allows us to thrive.
We're a portfolio business similar to an agency model. Slack Connect allows us to bring our portfolio companies into dedicated channels and manage communication and access for our suppliers as well. I'm not sure we could thrive without it.
- External channels for clients and suppliers.
- Automation with app integrations.
- High visibility of projects to everyone on the team.
- It can get a bit noisy with lots of channels and threads in particular.
- Some people take a little while to get used managing comms.
- It can be hard to find a particular discussion once its a bit older and buried in other messages.
March 05, 2024
Very effective communication tool with robust features
We use Slack almost entirely for internal and some client communication. These days, we use it more than we use email. It makes communication swift, simple, and organized. The search feature and thread capability are especially helpful for me. The thread feature helps ensure that people can have eyes on each other's conversations in case there's something that would be relevant to them, but it also keeps the chat from getting too busy.
We have numerous different channels for different functions at the company (marketing, creative, sales, general chat, random). It's a great way to connect with people in other departments, which can be particularly nice in an entirely remote company.
We have numerous different channels for different functions at the company (marketing, creative, sales, general chat, random). It's a great way to connect with people in other departments, which can be particularly nice in an entirely remote company.
- Organized chats
- Search feature with advanced filters
- Custom layouts
- APIs with other apps for seamless integration
- Syncs with my calendar to provide reminders
- Clearer step-by-step instructions on setting up integrations
- Easier 'reminder' features for responding to messages
March 04, 2024
Near perfection
As a remote company, Slack is our central hub for communication, where we collaborate on tasks and projects as well as day to day work.
We call each other through Slack, share updates in main channels and use the group chat functionality to ensure we're all on the same page as to where we are on a day-to-day basis.
In short, Slack allows us to function as a remote company in the same way we would in an office.
We call each other through Slack, share updates in main channels and use the group chat functionality to ensure we're all on the same page as to where we are on a day-to-day basis.
In short, Slack allows us to function as a remote company in the same way we would in an office.
- Direct messages
- Channels
- Reminders
- Integrations
- Threads
- Canvas
February 27, 2024
Slack is another level
The team use Slack for real-time messaging to discuss projects, share updates, and ask questions.
We also integrate with third-party tools and we centralize all notifications and alerts in Slack.
- Real-time communication
- Bots with reminders
- Integration with third-party tools
- Screen sharing quality
- Catch up feature in the desktop version
- Read messages keep as unread sometimes
February 26, 2024
It's like social media platform in a professional setting
The usage of Slack in our organization is by being able to communicate with other department within our account. It is one of the main things that I personally use when I escalate cases to our higher team or executive which is really important to the work load that I currently do in my daily basis.
- Slack is good for managing threads
- Slack is great when you want to escalate things with proper documentation
- Slack has good features that allows the user to customize the thread
- Design of the interface
- Customizability
- Loading speed
February 21, 2024
Slack is a great tool for remote and hybrid companies!
Slack is a great tool for team collaboration. For our fully remote team, I can't imagine working without this app. Daily communication, daily meetings, and in-app notifications from other external services are essential for us to keep up to date with tasks and progress in various projects.
- chat
- integration with external services
- web calls
- small issues with notifications in desktop app
February 20, 2024
Slack- by far the best communication tool!
We use Slack as our primary tool for daily communication and internal 1v1 meetings with the huddle feature. We love how easy it is to collaborate as a team using Slack. It is very simple to set up and use for all ages and technological abilities. Being able to customize different channels is great too.
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Simplicity
- Interactions
- Huddles can be tricky to share screens
- Sometimes Huddle audio is poor
- Channels can get old and repetitive
February 19, 2024
Slack is a masterpiece for collaboration
Slack in our company is our main collaboration point. We are a full remote company and we use Slack to chat, exange files, make quick call, all in the same place. One of the other great feature os Slack are the integrations, so you could integrate it with calendar, documents, and receive in real time any notification you might be interested in. Last but not less important we also use Slack with guest users to collaborate closely.
- easy to use
- complete
- integrations
- rock solid
- weight of the client
- integration with external users requests several operations to be set
- pricing
February 19, 2024
Slack is like a swiss-army multitool
Slack is the software equivalent of a multi-tool. I've used it for many years, in many companies, and it has always been the backbone of any team collaboration. It enables team and cross-team communication, as well as integrations with other third party software which allows data to feed directly into your Slack channels, creating alerts, tasks or other useful notifications right at your fingertips
- Collaboration
- Source of knowledge
- Integrations
- Telephony/meetings
February 17, 2024
Don't Call Me, Don't Text Me, Just Slack Me
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Slack helped both me and the other mentors at Lighthouse Labs collaborate with each other, ask for help from senior mentors, and follow-up with students after tricky mentoring sessions. The ability to tag specific senior mentors or call for second-level support in a specific channel was invaluable when trying to solve problems for students quickly and effectively. We could also broadcast solutions to common problems, keep track of lecture times and the progress of each student cohort, and contact specific members of Lighthouse Labs for questions about payroll or scheduling. As a one-stop all-purpose text communication platform, Slack can't be beat!
- Quick and easy direct messaging to single people or groups of people
- Rich text support for images, attachments, code snippets, or just emphasis
- Channels are quick and easy to set up and customize
- Sometimes it's easy to get overwhelmed by notifications if you don't customize your alerts
- Free plan limits the number of messages available at any given time, meaning you can "lose" a conversation with someone after talking to others
- iOS version of Slack doesn't support landscape orientation
February 12, 2024
Slack - my favorite
Slack is an incredibly visually pleasing and fast/easy way to communicate to large groups, single individuals or smaller subgroups of people. I love the functionality of giphy's where you can clear express what you are trying to say, and the huddle functionality has gotten better over time. I've been using Slack for the last 6 years and I'm always sad if I change company's and the platform of communication changes from Slack to a different platform.
- Visually pleasing
- Extensive ability to communicate through giphy's, emoji's, formatting of information
- up time is very consistent
- I would love to see Slack adding in more quick commands
- putting together training for how to use these quick commands