Selected examples of things that Slack thinks Slack is
(If you don’t know what Slack actually is, this article isn’t very helpful.)
I was recently writing about Slack, and it occurred to me that for one of these dictionary-word-unrelated-to-what-the-product-is kind of products, it’s better to include a description of what it is. And I figured the most proper thing would be to go with something they officially use and that I agree with. A few easy to find clicks into their help center—actually the first article in the first section in the first menu item—get you to a page “What is Slack?” On that page, the first sentence gives the official answer:
Slack is the operating system for work.
Now I always imagined the audience for that article I was working on was the type to understand an operating system as something like Windows or Debian, so this description is not suitable.
Luckily, searching for "slack is" site:slack.com gives lots of results.
Here’s a sample of these:
- Slack is a leader in over 314 G2 market reports.
- Slack is the operating system for work.
- Slack is your team’s collective brain.
- Slack is where work happens for millions of people.
- Slack is the AI-powered platform for work …
- Slack is a new way to communicate with your team.
- Slack is a collaboration hub …
- Slack is the place where everything happens.
- Slack is a rich interface for collaboration …
- Slack is a new way for your entire company to communicate.
- Slack is where the future works.
- Slack is a faster, better-organized, and more secure platform …
- Slack is the conversational interface for Salesforce …
- Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. [This one I used in my article.]
- Slack is where people … come together.
- Slack is the conversational UI for Agentforce.
- Slack is a better team collaboration tool compared to …
- Slack is where more work happens every day, all over the world
- Slack Is the AI-powered Platform for Work for Salesforce HR Teams
- Slack is the only open platform designed to host … every app and AI agent your enterprise relies on.
- Slack is where your best work happens …
- Slack is experiencing some connectivity issues — please stand by.
- Slack is having trouble loading on the desktop app or in a browser.
- Slack is where workers can go to escalate urgent issues …
- Slack is your digital HQ.
- Slack is so much more than a chat tool; it’s like Alan’s nervous system.
- Slack is a productivity platform and is not intended for use as a file or log storage repository.
- Slack is a central place to manage SLAs in real time.
- Slack is a quick and easy way to tell your team what you’re up to …
- Slack is where agile teams build and launch products faster.
- Slack is the duck.
- Slack is a workplace tool intended for use by businesses and organizations and not for consumer purposes.
- Slack is a registered trademark and service mark of Slack Technologies, Inc.
And yes I have heard the allegation that the name Slack originated as an acronym of a descriptive name.
My last post was about either How to sign in to Slack with a QR code or List of problems that can’t be solved with a big enough hammer. Find out which.