Hi there! People at SocialCops.

Let me introduce you to an easy-to-use messaging app.

Imagine all your team communication in one place, wherever you go.

That's Slack.

Available for Mac, PC, iOS and Android.

IT’S USED BY THE PEOPLE WHO PUT A ROBOT ON MARS!NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of tens of thousands of teams around the world using Slack to make their working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

A Messaging App

Here’s Slack.

Created by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, the San Francisco-based company has over 200,000 paid users, and 750,000 people access the service daily. Customers include Adobe, the New York Times, HBO and Expedia.

Slack valuation: $1.2 to $2.8 billion in 6 monthsDST Global and Index Ventures have valued the start-up, all for a service that's effectively trying to kill internal e-mail use by simplifying communication among teams.

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield was on stage at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, where he revealed that his company is expected to make $30 million in revenue this year - roughly 100X its current valuation.

Slack: growth rate compared to other messaging apps

STARTING OFF WITH SLACK

Start With a pilot team• Try using Slack, exclusively for a day with a small

group of people you work with closely, instead of sending emails (or IMs, or Skype messages so that your team can realize the benefits.

Start With a pilot team• Try using Slack, exclusively for a day with a small

group of people you work with closely, instead of sending emails (or IMs, or Skype messages so that your team can realize the benefits.

• Keep your starting set of channels small. When conversations emerge about a certain subject — like discussing a project, or regular topics like #lunch — create a new channel.

Start With a pilot team• Try using Slack, exclusively for a day with a small

group of people you work with closely, instead of sending emails (or IMs, or Skype messages so that your team can realize the benefits.

• Keep your starting set of channels small. When conversations emerge about a certain subject — like discussing a project, or regular topics like #lunch — create a new channel.

• Communicate in open channels. Draw your team into Slack. (No one wants to miss out on critical conversations!) Gain visibility into everything happening in your team. Build a database of organizational knowledge with zero effort.

INTEGRATE WITH AS MANY TOOLS AS YOU NEED!

Slack is most useful when you can see everything your team is doing — that includes all the tools you use outside of Slack!

Integrations let you automatically pull information and activity from outside tools into Slack in a way that's timely, relevant, and

searchable. Or, make your own!

Current Slack Integrations

And a lot more!

DIY Integrations & Customizations

SET UP YOUR TEAM PREFERENCES

Choosing the right preferences helps everyone on your team get the best possible experience. We’ll go over some of these key preferences

below, but more information can also be found in the Team Settings section of our Help Center.

Team Signup SSO — Enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) Email signup  Invitations — Team Admins and Owners can invite new team

members to Slack from the Invitations page.

Default channels for new users Encourage channel creation and integrations

Team Signup

Add more owners and admins

It’s lonely being the only Admin on a team. Appoint additional Owners and Admins early on.

There are five different roles a person can have on a Slack team, each with their own level of permissions:

OWNER | ADMIN | MEMBER | SINGLE-CHANNEL GUEST | RESTRICTED ACCOUNT

Establish Channel Conventions  While we don’t recommend trying to set up every channel in advance, it can be useful to create a few channels that reflect the structure of your organization.

Examples  

Here are a few examples that have worked for other organizations:

Team channels Topical channels

Project channels

Location-based channels Integration-based channels

A TESTAMENT TO THE SUCCESS OF SLACK!

WORKING WITHIN SLACK

Files and Links

It’s easy to share a file within Slack - you can drag and drop from your computer, upload a file, or paste links from services like Google Drive or Dropbox. Similarly, we make it easy to share web content like articles, tweets, images, and video. 

SearchFind whatever you need in seconds!The advanced search indexes every little bit of the files added, and searches within shared documents and metadata, not just titles.Narrow your search using special modifiers like• in: a specific channel• from: a particular person• during: a certain time periodFilter results by recency, relevancy, and file type.

Now say hi to Slackbot!

Get To Know Slackbot

Slackbot is Slack's built-in robot.

Slackbot will help your team fill out their account profile, and offer them a safe, private space to store notes and links.

But beyond that, Slackbot can also be a useful (and motivational) part of your team. Yes, really.

It’s me, Slackbot!

You can also configure your own custom responses!

1. By changing automatic responses

Visit:my.slack.com/customize/slackbot to change Slackbot responses.

While there are plenty of work-related uses for this, most teams just use the feature for fun:

2. By programming Slackbot

Your team can set up Slackbot to say things programmatically by creating a new Slackbot integration @ my.slack.com/services/new/slackbot.

This will give your team a unique URL for posting messages as Slackbot via HTTP POST.

OTHER FEATURES OF SLACK

ShortcutsUse keyboard shortcuts to help you speed right through whatever it is you need to do. Just type “⌘/” or “Ctrl/” in a message box.

Type “/” to see a full list of those commands directly from the message box.

Better still, you can create your own custom slash commands @ my.slack.com/services/new/slash-commands

See the official blog here

Migrate Your Data

Slack supports importing data from a variety of other communication tools, includingHipChat, Flowdock, Campfire, and other Slack teams. We’ll map imported users to new onesbased on their email address, so it’s best to do the data import after your team has already signed up.

For help on importing data, please see this helpdesk article.

Slack Stats

To help your team develop how you work together, we’ve built a dashboard that gives a visual summary of how your team is using Slack.

Slack Stats are available for all teams on the Standard Plan or above.

Slack in NEWS

The End. Thank you!