slank have introduced something called canvas and in today's video I wanted to recap everything from
dreamforce 2022 and what it means for the future of slack and why they're taking on
Microsoft teams so if you're new here my name is Francesca d'alessio I'm the host of keep
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you hit the subscription button below this video so slack of introduced something called canvas I
wanted to break this video into two core Parts canvas and huddles and I also want to tell you
near the end why there's a new ability to get a jump dolphin jumping across the screen and that
is a real function that they're introducing into slack so let's start with canvas so if you don't
know Microsoft teams has been really making some progression with something called Microsoft Loop
recently and if you don't know what that is we have a fantastic video that dives right into it
below but primarily Microsoft trying to reduce the amount of applications that you're using and so
sort of not let you leave things like Microsoft teams now slack hasn't been good at this in the
past it's allowed Integrations and Powerful ways to connect things up but never really the core
experience that it needed will slacker introducing canvas and essentially it's a way for you to
create documents whether that's for a meeting whether that's for onboarding or whether that's
for some other experience that you need it to that requires documents and you can use it all within
slack so it's actually built off of something that Salesforce already owned and it's called quip they
acquired that for 750 million back in 2016 and now they're introducing this as part of the documents
experience inside of slack inside of these quips or we'll call them canvases what's their real name
is you can actually create the regular stuff you would in say a Google doc but also be able
to interact and put Salesforce Integrations and abilities without actually having to do too much
like for example the workflow stabilities will work inside of a canvas document inside of slack
but it really takes that sort of leg room out from using something like Google Docs you could use a
canvas and not leave slack even for meetings which could be super powerful and save people
a lot of time so psycho trying to bring people in and that's great news because obviously it
means that you've got a more unified platform and the taking on Microsoft teams but what are they
doing when it comes to huddles so huddles are getting an upgrade and something that I would
if expected them to release a long long time ago but they're taking on the likes of Zoom by
introducing video collaboration and being able to collaborate in video form in real time this
is something I was waiting for for ages because they were adding video notes huddles with audio
and then suddenly they go okay we're gonna release this with huddles with video which
makes total sense if you're looking to extend things in a video format um it's especially one
thing that people a lot of people would still using zoom on top of Slack and this is really a
great step forward so you can interact with your canvases inside of those huddles which make it
great for taking team meetings and be able to attach those meetings to those channels or be
able to start a DM for example and you can view all of your canvases in the top left hand corner
of the screen to be able to find everything there so these features a slack are saying they're going
to be coming in early 2023 I they said General availability so obviously that's going to be
an interesting update but of course Salesforce is going to continue to make this evolve and improve
for those who are using it for their sort of sales core platform so really interesting updates from
slack and canvas seems like a great addition to the lineup let me explain the dolphin if you go
into effects inside of a huddle you can have a dolphin jump across the screen as well as many
other animals and items which is pretty cool so hopefully we summarized everything that was
released at Salesforce dreamforce event 2022 and what the future of back will look like it
seems very interesting they're taking on Microsoft teams with their internal ability to do stuff and
I think they're going to continue to evolve this in the future but that perfect integration between
quip and slack is a no-brainer and it's great that they've been able to weave it in altogether anyway
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