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Slack products and plans

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- [Instructor] Slack lives on the web, but there are different applications that you can use to work with Slack. There is a browser-based version of Slack that is found at www.slack.com, and there are many users that simply use Slack in a browser. But you can download a local client that you install on your computer for Slack, whether you're using Windows or a Mac. Finally, there are mobile Slack applications, Slack for the Apple devices, and Slack is also available for Android. You don't need to make a choice about whether you use Slack for Windows, Slack in a browser, Slack for Android. When you start, you can simply start with Slack in a browser and add other apps as you wish or based on your needs. There are also different Slack plans. Currently, there are four. One of them is free, three of them are not. The free plans have some caps. First, with the free plans, you can search only 10,000 messages created by you and your team. So if you generate a lot of messages or you have a long message history, some of the messages that were created first will fall out of your Slack search area, so to speak, over time. And Slack allows you to integrate with other software services available on the web. Google Drive, OneDrive, a wide variety of connections to different types of services. And each of those connections is an integration. If you have the Free plan, you can have up to 10 integrations. If you pay for a plan, then you can search all of the messages your team has ever created. You can have as many integrations as you wish. Additionally, you have support for compliance. For example, HIPAA support, e-discovery support. You can build workflows using the Slack Workflow Builder, and you can connect external organizations, other companies, to your team's Slack. And if you'd like to know more about any of these plans, that information is readily available. Go to www.slack.com, click Pricing, and you'll see the current version of the pricing guide that shows you the different features of each of the paid plans as well as the Free plan. Notice that if you wanted to start right now, with the Free plan, Standard, or Plus, you can do that. If you are going to have a large Slack installation, then you're asked to contact sales and not simply launch this on your own. In this course, I'm going to use the free version of Slack, which means that all the features I demonstrate will be available no matter what version of Slack you use, Free or one of the paid plans. But at the end of the course, I'll also show you how to upgrade a Slack workspace from the Free version to the Standard version, which is a logical choice if you're checking this out right now, but you then want to bring more people on your team on board and you'd like to be able to search an unlimited number of messages or have more integrations, or for example have voice and video calls with your entire team rather than just with one person. Slack is an evolving product, so it's not only possible, but very likely that at some point while we're working together, your screen will look different than mine. Don't let it bother you. The good news is that this almost always happens because some new, exciting feature has been added to Slack since I recorded this course and that you have access to it.

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