Forbes

What We Can Learn From Slack And Its Long-Term Prospects

This year we’ve witnessed the pop and subsequent stumble of intriguing consumer tech IPOs (namely Lyft and Uber). At the same time, enterprise companies like Zoom and CrowdStrike, which didn’t ...
EdSurge

Could Slack Be the Next Online Learning Platform?

In 2013, Richard Saller, dean of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, argued that teaching the humanities online was nearly impossible. “The humanities have to deal with ambiguity [and] with ...
Inside Higher Ed

4 Reasons Slack Will Change How You Teach

Whatever type of classroom you find yourself in this fall, digital tools are increasingly important to our teaching repertoire. Every day there’s a new platform or upgrade to existing technology. A ...
HR Dive

Slack tackles machine learning in the workplace

Will Slack replace email? Right now, it looks unlikely. Email is still the main form of formal online business communication. But instant messaging apps like Slack, HipChat and Skype are all ...
Business Insider

Demand for Slack admin and developer skills is expected to skyrocket as Salesforce kicks off a major push to get pros certified on the platform. Here are 3 ways to skill up and ...

Salesforce wants its $27.7 billion Slack acquisition to help it become a company's central work hub. But it'll need Slack-certified administrators and developers to help drive that implementation.