# Slack

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Slack channel, Slack channels, Slack workspace, Slack community, channel, DM, direct message

A team chat tool owned by [Salesforce](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/salesforce). [Conversations](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session) are organized into channels by topic. Tech communities also run Slack workspaces for their members. It is a workplace messaging tool.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) joins a local tech community's Slack and asks a question in the channel about [databases](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/database). Two [engineers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) reply within the hour.

Official site: <https://slack.com>

## Connects to (10)

- [Meetup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meetup): An informal, recurring gathering of people with a shared interest.
- [User group](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/user-group): A club of people who use or study the same technology and meet regularly to share what they learn.
- [Code of conduct](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/code-of-conduct): The written rules for how people in a community or at an event must treat each other, and what happens when someone breaks them.
- [Talent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/talent): The skilled people a company can hire or work with, such as software engineers and designers.
- [SaaS](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/saas): Software as a service.
- [Techlahoma Slack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-slack): Techlahoma's Slack workspace, where technologists across Oklahoma ask questions, share events and post jobs.
- [Discord](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/discord): A chat app built around communities called servers, with text channels, voice rooms and video.
- [Basecamp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/basecamp): A project management and team communication tool made by 37signals.
- [Microsoft Teams](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsoft-teams): Microsoft's chat and video meeting app for companies, part of Microsoft 365.
- [Salesforce](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/salesforce): A large company whose main product is software for tracking customers, deals and sales teams, a kind of tool called a CRM.

## Follow

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tiny-spec-inc)
- [X](https://twitter.com/slackhq)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/slackhq)
- [Facebook](https://facebook.com/slackhq)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3YECgeBcLCzIrFLP4gblw)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@slackhq)


Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/slack