Articles tagged "Team chat"

How to Use Slack

Slack has become the centerpiece of team communication for both professional and personal groups the world over. It lets you create workspaces to host chat rooms (called channels), send private messages, and share files.

How to Use Slack Search

Can't quite remember that one piece of information you're confident someone told you on Slack? Try searching for it. One of Slack's key selling points is memory, the ability to look through every conversation your team has ever had.

How to win at Zoom backgrounds, from a first-place winner

Recently, video conferencing tool Zoom started a monthly virtual background contest. Remote workers from around the world vie for the prestigious title. In March 2020, Zapier's own Ben Peter won the contest. This is his story.

Cómo sobrevivir en un Slack demasiado concurrido

I can't imagine working without Slack. I also don't know how to get any work done when it's open. The line between distraction and focus is surprisingly fuzzy, and Slack might be the fuzziest app of them all.

When Slack Won the Team Chat Market

It’s hard to stop a rocket, impossible to ignore an idea whose time had come. For a species as talkative as homo sapiens, a chat app was always bound to be the killer app for smart devices.

How to Use Slack's New Shared Channels: 6 Ways They'll Help You Send Even Fewer Emails

Like many other people, I almost never email coworkers these days. My default is Slack. Slack conversations are quicker, more productive, and—let’s be honest—more fun than email.

How to use Microsoft Teams for free, and which features are included

Microsoft Teams is a team chat app—essentially Microsoft's answer to Slack.

Lockdown feels like high school. Let's pretend Slack is AIM.

The majority of my social interaction happens on Slack now. That's just the reality of working from home during a lockdown.

How to quickly find links to your Zoom meetings

Admit it: you've been late to a meeting because you couldn't find the Zoom link. It's a terrible feeling, knowing that everyone else is already in the call while you're fumbling through your calendar.

Steal This Workflow: How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

You’ve seen them hiding in your app’s settings, promising to send notifications, sync data, and connect to other software you use. Webhooks. They’re the mysterious extra in so many apps.