Speaker 1: What's up, my internet friends? Brian Tong here, and I'm sure you've heard about Salesforce acquiring Slack and all the new things that they're doing, and if you haven't, you can watch my breakdown of it right here. But look, we are here because everyone loves a countdown, and if you aren't using Slack for business, what are you even doing? So today, I'm telling you the top 10 ways Slack can increase your productivity and collaboration, so let's get right to it. At number 10, channels. You can organize your teams around a common goal using channels. If Slack is your entire body that handles all of your functions, well, channels are at the heart of Slack, and it's what makes everything go, and it's the foundation for what separates Slack from its competitors. You can create channels on your own for everything and everyone, from co-workers to external business partners. It allows different members from different teams to collaborate based on a specific topic or task to complete, and yes, you can make a channel for your favorite Instant Pot recipes. Come on now, let's trade a few. But without channels, Slack ain't Slack. At number nine, emojis, or what I like to call emojis. Yeah, sure, you're using this for work, but Slack is personality. Respond with a check mark for completed. Use the eyes for taking a look. What's the light bulb for? A great idea. High five hands, nicely done. Thumbs up is a plus one, and bullseye means exactly. Look, emojis take on another language in Slack, and use those prayer hands to say thank you or beg for a raise. Slack has emojis. At numero ocho, Slack Connect. Business moves so quickly, so speed up your collaboration with your business partners with Slack Connect. Slack Connect allows you to work with people outside of your company with shared channels and direct messages. It moves the conversations you used to have in emails and then takes them directly to Slack securely. Hey, me likey, and it makes collaborating easier with a direct connection with teams. At number seven, huddles. How many of you watching this are sitting inside your company's office right now? You know, I'm going to guess more than half of you probably aren't because we're working remotely, but then how do you stay connected and have interactions just like you would at the office while wearing your favorite fuzzy bunny slippers? Well, you can do calls or screen sharing directly from Slack, but even better, Slack huddles lets you have quick mini meetings with your team on the spot. Think of it like those hallway conversations that you'd have at the office. Instead, it's a spontaneous audio chat that's just easy to jump into on the fly when people are available. Okay. All right, everybody. Break. Six on the list is focus time. Integrate Google Calendar to set focus time so you can focus on the most important work. You can automatically sync your Slack status with your Google Calendar so everyone can see your availability. Just add the Google Calendar app from the Slack app directory and it syncs together like magic. You know, it's one of the over 2,400 apps that are available for you depending on the type of work you do. So when you're busy finishing a deadline or you're watching that latest music video from BTS that they just dropped and you cannot be bothered, hey, both of these are equally important. Coming in at number five, get rid of the noise. Eliminate noise by turning off notifications. Look, we all know Slack gonna Slack. It just don't stop. So pause your notifications with do not disturb. Just go to your profile pic in the top right of the app and click it. Hover over pause notifications. Then choose a time frame and you are set to D and D. Oh, sorry, Dungeons and Dragons fans. Um, I didn't mean to get you all excited, but D and D here stands for do not disturb. Hey, we've got the final four to go, but I really need to take a breather. I'm just going to get a sip of water here. And while I do that, if you want to learn more about the Slack playlist on Salesforce plus, Hey, just click over here. All right. Hmm. I just got to loosen up my throat. Okay. That was good. All right. Let's get back down to the countdown at four. Set sync and share. If you're stepping away from Slack to grab some lunch, maybe you're going on vacation for a week or just plugging in for a few hours, you can create a custom status in Slack to manage your coworkers expectations. Now you can set your status right from your profile and you have five default choices. You can change how long it is and whether or not to pause notifications or you can make a custom one. Now your status can also sync with apps for Slack. So your Google calendar will update your status if you have meetings planned and it will also automatically update if you're on a voice or video call in Slack and then reset when you're done at number three, real time collaboration tools. I mentioned earlier how there are over 2,400 apps that you can connect with Slack that help streamline tasks, your workflow and collaboration. And really one of the best things to do is integrate apps you use directly into Slack. There's just so many of them for disciplines like project management, marketing, sales and analytics, but they all allow you to handle your business with Slack. And here's a heart emoji for that because I love it so much. Tear emoji. Coming in at number two, workflow builder. Simplify and speed up everyday processes with workflow builder. This is another part of the magic of Slack because workflow builder allows you to do everything from request time off, submit Salesforce cases and add new details to your CRM. They are prebuilt workflows that allow you to do more complex tasks in just a few clicks, no coding required. And finally we have reached the mountain top at number one, apps for Slack. You want to unlock your productivity and be more efficient. Yes, you should all be nodding your heads right now. Jamie? Yeah, I'm waiting for you. Jamie? Yes. Thank you. Now here are five apps in no particular order to help you do just that. Build a self-service help desk with help because everyone needs some help. Team culture is everything. So sweeten it up with Donut, the app and Real Donuts help too. You can drive business growth with Drift. You want to see how your team feels about their next goal? Take your team's pulse with Simple Pull and link up your tools with Zapier to connect key apps and automate your workflows and make them zapier. It's in the name. Now these are some of the apps that unlock your productivity in Slack. So what'd you all think of that top 10 list? You know, personally, I would have, you know, maybe bumped one of them higher and I think you know what it is. Emojis. Okay, I'll stop that, I swear. But there you go, the top 10 ways Slack increases productivity and collaboration. Hey, you're not done yet. Don't forget to like, subscribe and turn on your notifications to get more videos like this from Salesforce.