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Rob Woodgate Writer Rob Woodgate is a writer and IT consultant with nearly 20 years of experience across the private and public sectors. He's also worked as a trainer, technical support person, delivery manager, system administrator, and in other roles that involve getting people and technology to work together. • The name of the Slack instance. • The list of channels you’re a member of. • The list of people you’ve direct messaged. • The chat window. When a customer wants to start using Slack, they choose a name for their Slack instance. This then becomes part of the unique URL. So, if Wile E. Coyote wants to create a Slack instance for ACME Slingshots, his Slack instance would be https://acmeslingshot.slack.com/. Wile E. can then invite anyone he wants to be a member of his Slack instance. What’s So Great About Slack? When Slack came along, there were no real competitors in the market. That’s not to say there weren’t other chat apps, but Slack combined an intuitive UI with both group and person-to-person messaging. It also allows companies to have a measure of control over who can use it through the invitation system. Other tools could do the same, but without the same usability ( This lack of corporate size was also a benefit. Slack was small enough to be responsive and quick when it came to adding new features, like emoji reactions (great for users) and wasn’t owned by a big traditional vendor was benefit enough, but that doesn’t explain why Slack is so popular. Slack ...

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Introducing the Multi-Org feature for the Salesforce for Slack app Are you an admin who supports multiple Salesforce orgs that need to connect to a single Slack workspace? If yes, this blog is for you! We’ll deep dive into a new feature called Multi-Org, available in the What is Multi-Org management? This feature gives users easy access to multiple Salesforce orgs within Slack, making it more convenient and efficient for both Salesforce Admins and their users. For example, you can now receive approvals and notifications from multiple Salesforce orgs as well as run screen flows. Sales/Service/CRM Analytics apps will also start to use this feature soon. What does this mean for admins? Prior to this enhancement, users could only use a single Salesforce org to access a Slack workspace with the Salesforce for Slack app. As an admin, if you were supporting multiple Salesforce orgs and needed to connect your users to the same Slack workspace, you were out of luck. The new It only takes a few steps to set up the connection between the Salesforce orgs and Slack. How does an admin configure this? To get started, Once you’ve enabled Slack in the Salesforce org, the next step is to install the During the Salesforce for Slack app installation, you’ll be asked to authenticate a Salesforce org, which will be set as the "default" org for any actions performed within the Slack workspace. The default org serves as the primary target for all commands and shortcuts issued by a user within Sla...

When you upload a file to Slack, Slack becomes the host for your file, taking care of its safe storage. Uploading files is by far the easiest way to use files in Slack. App setup In order to upload a file to Slack, there are a couple of scopes your app should have. There are also some events you may want your app to subscribe to. Scopes Under the Apps page of your app, choose the OAuth & Permissions sidebar to select scopes. • files:read allows access to, well, methods that read files. That's files.info and files.list. • files:write:user allows your app to If you'd like to do your work with a bot instead, one scope will do: request the bot scope to gain dominion over the file arts. Events A bevy of events inform your app about file happenings in your workspace. To subscribe to any file events, use the Event Subscriptions tab under your Apps page. Here's a laundry list of file events: • file_change: A file was changed. • file_created: A file was created. • file_deleted: A file was deleted. • file_public: A file was made public. • file_shared: A file was shared. • file_unshared: A file was unshared. With your app set up, read on to learn how to upload files. Uploading files Your app can upload files using the files.upload method. Check out the Here's a sample curl command that uploads a file: curl -F [email protected] -F "initial_comment=Hello, Leadville" -F channels=C0R7MFNJD -H "Authorization: Bearer xoxp-123456789" https://slack.com/api/files.upload As always, life is ea...

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Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety and one of Elon Musk’s top lieutenants, is no longer in Twitter’s internal Slack, according to a source familiar and a screenshot of her deactivated account viewed by Fortune. Irwin declined Fortune‘s request for comment but confirmed her resignation. Reuters also A former While it’s not yet clear why Irwin has left Twitter, sources at Twitter have speculated about whether her departure might be connected to Musk’s recent Twitter’s approach to content moderation has become much looser, and controversial, under Musk, who has described himself as a “free-speech absolutist.” Earlier this week, an Irwin’s role as one of the top executives at Twitter has taken place during a tumultuous period at the company, as Musk has laid off thousands of employees and advertisers have fled. In a January After Musk eliminated Twitter’s public relations department, Irwin often served as the company’s de facto spokesperson, commenting about Twitter’s policies to reporters and regularly engaging with Twitter users about content moderation decisions. In April, after a user criticized Irwin for allowing Nazi-related content on the platform, © 2023 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to cha...