https://www.meetup.com/net2van/events/238223544/ What's the Deal with Slack? Slack is a team collaboration tool that has slowly begun to chip away at email's dominance in the workplace. With over 4 million daily active users, it's become an essential tool for thousands of organizations. Slack's David Fay will offer an introduction to the tool for the unfamiliar, and share some tips and tricks for the converted. Come and learn about this email-killer that's changing the way we communicate at work. About David Fay ========= David is an account manager at Slack. He has worked with hundreds of customers, including many nonprofits, to successfully implement Slack across their organizations. David has a strong background in enterprise software, and is always excited to find ways to make customers' lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

2. Agenda
1. The future of work
2. Why Slack
3. Demo
4. Thriving with your team in Slack

3. There’s a
massive shift
taking place
in businesses
across the world.
Cloud
Messaging
Mobile

4. “Companies are decentralizing authority, moving toward product and
customer-centric organizations, and forming dynamic networks of highly
empowered teams that communicate and coordinate activities in unique and
powerful ways.”
It’s bringing forward fundamental questions
about how and where work should happen.
– Deloitte, Organizational Design

5. Your company’s response has a large impact on
productivity and more
of time spent in meetings, sending,
sorting and responding to email,
administrative tasks, and more
of time each week gathering
information
a year wasted on searching but not
finding information
PAST
54%
16%
$6M
FUTURE
32% 25%more
productive
fewer
meetings
49% fewer
emails

6. About Slack
Public launch: Feb 2014
$540M in capital raised. Key investors include Accel, a16z, Social
Capital, Index, Thrive, GV, Kleiner Perkins, GGV, Horizons, Spark,
IVP and DST.
700+ employees across 7 offices worldwide, HQ in San Francisco.
Diverse set of industries, including software/technology, retail,
media, telecom and professional services.

7. Unprecedented adoption to date
4M
2.25
42%
Daily active users
daily active
users
of revenue
outside the US
hours of daily
active user
engagement

8. Where Work Happens

9. Our Mission:
To make people’s working
lives simpler, more pleasant,
and more productive.

10. Slack takes
communication that
happens across a bunch
of disconnected places

11. And brings those
conversations and
the people having
them together.

12. Slack takes the hundreds of siloed apps
fragmenting your workflows

13. And makes it
possible to use
them, together,
to get your work
done in Slack.
apps
900+

14. This builds a searchable
and accessible archive
that becomes your
company’s collective
knowledge base.

15. Smarter and
personalized search
Directed focus on
what’s important
And it makes Slack
smarter the more
you use it. Greater sense of
collective knowledge

16. Demo