Slack is a set of cloud-based, team collaboration tools founded by @Stewart Butterfield. [1] Slack began as an internal tool used by their company, Tiny Speck. The name Slack is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge". [2] Slack offers features like persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, as well as private groups and direct messaging. All content inside Slack is searchable, including files, conversations, and people. Slack integrates with a large number of third-party services and supports community-built integrations such as Google Drive, Trello, Dropbox, Box, etc. Slack teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team admin or owner. Although Slack was meant for organizational communication, it has been slowly turning into a community platform, a function for which users previously used message boards or social media such as Facebook or LinkedIn groups. [3] If you're new to Slack, watch the promo piece @Sandwich Video made below. ::embed[https://www.youtube.com/embed/B6zVzWU95Sw]{provider=youtube}
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- [1] 'Slack’s Co-Founders Take Home The Crunchie For Founder Of The Year', TechCrunch
- [2] 'Slack, the $3.8 billion startup, has a hidden meaning behind its name', Business Insider
- [3] 'Why Slack is Exploding (as a Community-Building Platform)', Hootsuite
- [4] A Brief History of Slack, techvibes.com
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