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The following references are from the book and will be updated as new features and integrations are added:
Introduction:
Slack Delivers Positive Message to Justify Early Valuations
The Value of Slack Users is Off the Charts
Slack the App that Wants to be a Digital Spine for Business
Why Investors are Throwing Money at $2.8 Billion Startup Slack, When it’s Only mMaking $30 Million
What is Slack
Slack Just Took Over 4 Cities With Its First Big, Extremely Bubbly Ad Campaign
How I cut the Amount of Email I receive by 83% in Less Than a Week
Slack in the Wild: Is the Collaboration App a Hit or a Myth?
Wallstreet Journal graphic – Billion Dollar Startup Club
Team Productivity Through Slack
The Ultimate Guide to Doing Anything in Slackk
Trello, Slack and the Lighter Side of Managing Projects
Slack the App We Can’t Stop Chatting About
Slack’s 2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce
How To Use Slack For Project Management With These Simple Tips
Slack Cofounder: ‘We’ve Done a Sh**ty Job of Telling People How to Use Slack’
Slack for Android Updated; Brings in Faster Navigation, Android Emoji and More
Tired of Emails? Take Up the Slack App
The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
How to Get Started
The Ultimate Guide to Doing Anything on Slack
Slack Starts Accepting Requests for Beta Access to its New Linux Client
New Slack for Mac Release Fixes Corrupt Cache Issue, More
Slack Ties in with Windows 10’s Notification Center
How I Cut the Amount of Email I Receive by 83% in Less Than a Week
Slackbot:
Slackbot May Soon Be a Lot More Helpful than Siri
The CEO of Slack Says That Siri is ‘Nearly Useless’
Slack Boss Calls Siri ‘F—ing Idiotic’
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield Calls Apple’s Siri “Idiotic”
The Anatomy of Slack
Streamline Your Team Communications With Slack
Best Practices From the Most Active Slack Users
10 Great Slack Hacks and Tips that Make You More Productive
The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
Slack Announces @Here Capabilities
Trello, Slack and the Lighter Side of Managing Projects
10 Great Slack Hacks and Tips That Make You More Productive
Become a Slack Power User with These Useful Tips
11 Useful Tips for Getting the Most out of Slack
10 Awesome Addons to Supercharge Your Slack Experience
The Ultimate Guide to Doing Anything in Slack
Vastly Improved Slack Commands
Slack’s Newest Feature Lets You Call a Lyft From Within Slack
How to Send Messages as Slackbot to Slack
Automation
Start Automating Your Business Tasks with Slack
Scrumbot: Your Agile Assistant
Think Slack is Just a Billion-Dollar Chat App? You Haven’t Seen How This Company is Using It
In-Depth Look at Bots:
Slack Is Overrun With Bots. Friendly, Wonderful Bots
Rise of the Slack Bots: Automate Boring Tasks
Cut Siri Some Slack. She Wasn’t Created To Do What We Think
Rapid Crash Course to Expert:
Slack Everything: How to Turn Your Team’s Communication App Into Central Command
The iOS Giphy Cam App Is The Best Free Way To Slack Off Today
Streamline Your Team Communications With Slack
Slack Adds Offline Mode, Performance Boosts and More
Android App Updates – June 5th, 2015: Slack, Nokia Here Maps and More
Slack 2.0 Is Coming, And It Looks A Whole Lot Better
Slack Revamps its Android App with Material Design, Emoji, Team Notifications, Tabs
New Design Release for Android Slack 2.0 App
Slack for iOS Updated; Adds Search 2.0, In-app Invites, and More
Slack Beta for Windows Phone Now Publicly Available, Download Here!
Slack Announces Public Beta of Their Team Messaging and Collaboration App
There’s One Glaring Flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 10 Strategy
Outfitting A Company to Get it Off the Ground
Slack Invents Emoji Favs: A Whole New Way to Say What you Think
Need To Slack Off? Simple Updates Could Fix ‘Work-Life Killing’ Biz Collaboration App
Slack for Everyone:
Why is Messaging App Slack Exploding? Founder: ‘I Have No F–king Idea’
4 Lessons from a College IT Team’s Switch to Slack
How I Hacked Slack Into a Community Platform with Typeform
Slack with Friends, Lovers, and Geeks: How the Hot Workplace App is Getting Personal
5 Slack Communities That Every Startup Founder Must Join
An Incomplete List of Communities on Slack
Slack for Developers:
The Ultimate Guide to Doing Anything in Slack
Slack Releases ‘Add to Slack’ Button for Other Apps
Slack Releases Add to Slack Button for Other Apps
App Release Notes are Getting Stupid
Setting Up Entrepreneurs:
Why Slack is the Ultimate Tool to Build Your Own Online Community
Apps for Startups and Entrepreneurs to get the Most Out of Their Time and Effort
Slack for Remote Teams:
Three Questions with Slack’s CEO
Slack – The App That We Can’t Stop Chatting About
Track How Your Team Uses Slack with Google Analytics
Use Slack? This Bot Can Give You a Bunch of Handy Metrics
How to Revolutionize Your Team Communication with Slack
Slack for Corporations
Slack, the Office Messaging App That May Finally Sink Email
Best Practices From the Most Active Slack Users
EmTech Digital: Work Chat App Slack Wants You to Message with Machines
How Slack is Helping Reimagine What a Document Is
Slack in the Wild: Is the Collaboration App a Hit or a Myth?
The Slack Bot Trend Continues, This Time with Al Jazeera English
Use Slack to See Who is Talking About Your Product
Integrations – Intro:
17 Slack Integrations to Spice up Your Team Communication
Integrations – Advanced:
How to Integrate Slack With WordPress
Synchronize Your Slack Channels & Chats with WordPress
Slack Integrates With Google Calendar To Add Events To Channels
Slack Now Reminds you About Google Calendar Events
Slack in the Wild: Is the Collaboration App a Hit or a Myth?
Slack Everything: How to Turn Your Team’s Communication App Into Central Command
With Over 1 Million Users, Slack Now Aims to Get a lot More Useful
9 Slack Hacks We Couldn’t Live Without
Integrations – Expert:
10 Awesome Addons to Supercharge Your Slack Experience
Public Beta for Slack Add-on, Convergely, Claims to Improve Slack Experience
Spotify Playlist Collaboration Through Slack
A New Way to Control Spotify Through Slack Integration
InboxVudu, The AI-Based Email Prioritizer, Launches An App For iOS And Apple Watch
Security
The Launch of Two-Factor Authentication
Security Matters: How to Ensure Your Productivity Apps Are Fully Protected
Dozens of Popular Apps Vulnerable to Password Hack
Dozens of Phone Apps with 300M Downloads Vulnerable to Password Cracking
How to Escape the Public Internet
Slack Plus Introduces Employee Spying, Bosses Can Even View Deleted Messages
Slack Alters Privacy Policy to Let Bosses Read Your Messages
Competitors
Convo Wants To Be The ‘Un-Slack’ Version of Slack for Big Companies
HipChat vs. Slack – Best Instant Messenger Chat App For Businesses
Microsoft Reveals Microsoft Send, A New Enterprise Chat App to Rival Slack
Microsoft: Send, Slack, And Power BI
LinkedIn Puts Slack in its Crosshairs with Updated Messaging Platform
Workplace Chat App Eko Gets $5.7M Series A Funding to Make Teams Productive, Quit Slacking
Singapore-Based Enterprise Messaging Service Startup Pie Raises $1.2m Series A Round
RingCentral Gets Some Slack Magic
Azendoo Raises $1.5 Million to Bring Their Slack-Like Tool to Marketing Teams
How NSA and CIA Connections Helped Launch this Slack-y app for Better Agency Collaboration
Imagining MessageKit: Apple’s Path to Turning iMessage into a Platform
Closing:
Amazing Messaging Tool Slack Kills 80 to 100% of Work Emails
BONUS! Integration Product Hunt Top 10:
1) Notify
2) SlackStack
3) Slack App Director
4) Meekan
5) Review Monitor
6) Slack Themes
7) Chit Chats
8) Smooch
9) Speak
10) Slack Overflow
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