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today we're diving into what is happening with slack and what has happened more recently with
their sort of sales force events obviously for those who don't know salesforce now own slack
it's sort of become official in the last sort of three months i believe um but slack of basic
basically more recently introduced this new clips feature and this is the article from the verge
which i'll include in the link in description because it's a really well put together article
and this new clips feature is basically aiming to avoid meetings and it works in two different ways
for example uh here's a good example of it the actual video can be recorded from your camera and
instantly shared with the team and then when you stop recording it basically posts it directly into
the conversation very much like how cloud app and loom work which are really popular video
quick messaging applications and they sort of remove that necessary unnecessary need
for an entire meeting now there's a secondary feature that allows you to record your screen
and also record yourself at the same time so that you're visually demonstrating something in front
of you whether it's a workflow or roadmap or maybe even a new website redesign or something like that
so that's um some of their sort of bigger uh updates and it's called clips they want it to
replace remove meetings which i understand and they're getting uh video voicemails uh which they
essentially are now there is a service that does this quite well now called yak
which is very similar in name but basically in yak you can send people uh voice messages um and
you can also record your screen and send them but there's also no need to sort of um necessarily you
know make sure to constantly be having meetings um as i said it's really designed for asynchronous
communication um and uh this is a sort of like add-on tool that you can record for your desktop
but quite an interesting concept now slack have also been busy doing this huddle function
back in july they released it but they sort of formalized it recently with their salesforce event
and as you can see here what it allows you to do is in the bottom left-hand corner after a meeting
you can turn on a channel much like you would in apps like discord where you can then be talking
with other people after a meeting a little bit like how you would walk away from a meeting and be
speaking to other people around the desk but you can join in a huddle after a meeting sort of a bit
counter-intuitive because they're introducing a feature that helps you to reduce meetings
but then this actually keeps you in a meeting for longer but what's quite nice about this feature is
i'm not sure where they show it here but you can actually have the automatic text automated
so that it just pops up with what people are saying instead of having to tune in and having
to be in that conversation so if you're not really the person that you know necessarily
needs to jump into that conversation you can just avoid that i genuinely thought there was
going to be something on salesforce plus about uh slack or like anything in the latest thing
but i don't know how salesforce work and to be honest it's quite complicated but i remember
a year ago i'm not even sure this is still a feature but slack is had that sort of like video
uh instagram stories function where you could record little clips updates for your colleagues
and you could share them at home it was a little bit cringe i made a video on it being a little bit
confused about how it works but at the same time a bit like maybe it would work but we'll see so i
really do think salesforce are probably investing much more in this what they call customer uh 360
and they've also got a a few other versions of it so as you can see here they want slack
to be this slack first marketing slack for sale slack first service so essentially you're doing
everything in slack and you're not really leaving it and they what they want is to help you connect
up with existing integrations on sale force and i believe in this more recent update they actually
introduced 16 new salesforce integrations so with this in sort of hindsight they looking to sort of
really embed it in their service as this sort of like hub for people to do all their work and sort
of point people in the right direction obviously they still have like a huge base of people that
are using slack outside of this so i can imagine they're sort of working on the two simultaneously
and that's probably why i wouldn't necessarily expect to see many new slack updates in the near
future so i really do think this idea is pretty cool i think any way that slack can invest in
reducing the amount of meeting meetings could be really cool in the future especially because
i feel like a lot more companies are starting to understand the asynchronous
work environments and how it can be beneficial to all aspects of employees lives but we'll see
how this new update can improve the way that slack is is working anyway folks hopefully you enjoyed
today's video if you want to check out the medium articles i'm writing you can check that out in the
link in description uh but obviously i think it's slack's doing some interesting stuff salesforce
sort of starting to activate what slack could be as part of the integration with them anyway folks
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