Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.
Your Slack workspace
A Slack workspace is made up of channels, where team members can communicate and work together.
💬 Organized conversations
In Slack, team members send messages and share files in channels. Create channels for teams, projects, office locations, or anything else that’s relevant to your organization. You can make channels private for conversations that shouldn’t be open to all members, or you can use shared channels to collaborate with external organizations from your own workspaces.
🔎 Searchable history
When messages and files are shared in public channels, information flows transparently throughout Slack. You can search your team’s conversation history in Slack to find relevant messages, files, channels, and people. With Slack’s searchable history, conversations can become common institutional knowledge.
Download Slack’s desktop and mobile apps
When you download the Slack desktop and mobile apps, you can receive notifications on all your devices and stay in sync when you’re on the move. Whatever you do on one device is reflected everywhere — Slack apps keep your place, letting you pick up conversations wherever you left off.
Go to slack.com/downloads to download Slack’s desktop and mobile apps.
Join a Slack workspace
A workspace is a company’s shared hub, where team members communicate and work together in channels. You can join an existing Slack workspace in three ways:
- If you received an email invitation, accept the invitation.
- If you know your workspace’s Slack URL, sign up with an approved email address.
- If your company uses single sign-on, authenticate your account with your identity provider (think Okta, OneLogin, G Suite, and so on!)
When you join a workspace, Slack will guide you through the process of setting up your account. They will ask you to enter your full name, a display name, and a password so you can sign in and out with ease.
If you’re having trouble finding your email invitation or can’t find your workspace’s Slack URL, go to slack.com/signin/find and enter your email address. It will send you sign-in links for any workspaces available for you to join.
What’s next?
- In Slack, work happens in channels. Find and join relevant channels in your workspace to make sure you’re getting all the info you need.
- Once you know how to find your channels, learn how to send and read messages.
- Sometimes, direct messages are necessary to carry on a conversation outside of a channel. Learn how to access and start direct messages in your workspace.
Information above has been shared from slack.com