Tag Archives: Slack

The NFL, Sports Tech Build Slack Teams (Tackling Tech)

The National Football League is amid a broad implementation of Slack, an enterprise messaging app credited with facilitating collaboration among internal teams and used to build on... More

Harvard Business Review Built a Bot on Slack that Delivers Workplace Advice (Digiday)

Slack is gaining a foothold in many offices as the center on their communications, leading Harvard Business Review to focus attention on how to get its content inside the app. HBR ... More

The Story Behind Your Work Is the Inspiration for Slack’s New Branded Podcast (Adweek)

Finally landing your dream job is only half the story in Slack's new career-focused podcast. On Monday, the work-collaboration software company launched a branded podcast series ca... More

Slack CEO Describes ‘Holy Grail’ of Virtual Assistants (CIO)

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has an audacious goal: Turning his messaging and collaboration platform into an uber virtual assistant capable of searching every enterprise applicati... More

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Fixing Real Problems (TechCrunch)

In order to really impact the world, the tech industry does need to work with regulators, which means that things might not change as fast as we want them to. So, in areas like edu... More

How the Slack App Ecosystem is Helping Chatbot Developers (VentureBeat)

It’s good to be part of the Slack ecosystem. Our bot MailClark is among 600 third-party apps that work on Slack. I like to say we get all the benefits of a flea on the back of an... More

How Slack’s Anna Pickard Makes Software Sound Human (Digiday)

Slack, the instant messaging app, is invading offices around the globe. The productivity tool of the moment, now valued at $3.8 billion, is the darling of tech and media companies.... More

Slack, Facebook, Uber, and Pandora Pros Praise Free Security Tools (Fortune)

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but in an age of seemingly endless hacking attacks technologists will do you one better: free security tools. Engineers from top tech fi... More

Slack Turns its Attention to the Enterprise by Integrating with Salesforce (Forbes‎)

As their customer bases overlap, Slack and Salesforce are teaming up. Slack announced on Tuesday that it’s formed a strategic partnership with Marc Benioff’s CRM leader, integr... More

Chat Bots Aren’t a Fad, They’re a Revolution. (BackChannel)

Rather than force consumers to stop what they’re doing and open a new app, chat bots allow companies to inject themselves into the places where people are already communicating. ... More

Every Company Needs a Voice, This is How Slack Found Theirs (The Memo)

Software isn’t typically very human. We’ve grown used to the corporate legalese found in Microsoft, or even Apple’s apps. But there are some companies building software diffe... More

Messaging Startup Slack Invests About $2 Million in Other Apps (Bloomberg)

Slack Technologies Inc., the popular corporate chatroom startup, is tapping its in-house venture arm to invest almost $2 million in companies that integrate with its platform. On T... More

Slack Co-Founder on the Happy Accident that Led to His $1B Startup (The Guardian)

Cal Henderson: With things like application performance monitoring and CRM, a large company might use 100 different tech tools. Even small businesses will use a selection that are ... More

The Washington Post is Using Slack to Create a Reader Community Focused on the Gender Pay Gap (Nieman Lab)

Slack, already an indispensable tool within newsrooms, is becoming a surprisingly effective community tool for publishers as well. Back in April, The Washington Post launched Pay U... More

Slack, the Facebook Slayer (The Atlantic)

Facebook may be devouring the web, but Slack is increasingly nibbling on a significant portion of it. The group-chat platform announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with 12 co... More

Slack Is Making Its Workplace Chat App Even Stickier (Fortune)

More than 3 million people use Slack’s workplace chat app daily—many of them for 10-hour stretches on any given workday. Now the business software company has created another r... More

Slack Adds Message Buttons So You Can Use Other Apps Without Ever Leaving (Forbes)

Slack is happy if its users want other productivity apps to go with Slack’s own communications tools. But with new message buttons, Slack is making it clear that it would prefer ... More

Inside The Organic UX Design Process At Slack (Co.Design)

Valued at more than $3 billion dollars with more than 600,000 paying customers at the start of 2016, Slack is on a mission to simplify how teams communicate—a philosophy echoed i... More

Slack Is Adding Artificial Intelligence to Its Chatbot (Inc.com)

Pretty soon, Slack won't just be a tool that makes doing your job easier--it will also tell you how to do it. That's what the company's head of learning and intelligence Noah Weiss... More

Slack Consultants Are Bringing the Chat App to Corporate America (Bloomberg)

For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack. Don't know what Slack is? He can help. The 27-year-old runs ChatOverload, a consulting... More