{"id":7617,"date":"2018-11-13T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:56:49","slug":"slack-integrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/slack-integrations","title":{"rendered":"The Slack integrations, apps, and bots we use to run GoSquared"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We first switched to using Slack<\/a> for our internal team communication several years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A lot has changed since then (including Slack’s valuation), but we still use Slack day-to-day. The way we\u2019ve used Slack on a daily basis has evolved over time, but one thing has been pretty constant: our reliance on Slack integrations.<\/p>\n

For those new to Slack, it doesn\u2019t just enable human-to-human conversation among a team. In fact, most of the real power we\u2019ve found from Slack comes from the ability to link it to third-party services, apps and bots, putting information directly in front of the team in a single place, and enabling them to get their job done more effectively without digging into dozens of external tools.<\/p>\n

We have an incredible number of apps and integrations set up on our Slack workspace. In fact, humans are outnumbered by bots approximately five-to-one.<\/p>\n

These integrations enable us to be more efficient in a number of ways:<\/p>\n