{"id":721,"date":"2016-02-12T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog2wrkdev.wpenginepowered.com\/announcing-workbot-on-slacks-app-directory-work-40-apps-from-slack\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:26:39","slug":"announcing-workbot-on-slacks-app-directory-work-40-apps-from-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/announcing-workbot-on-slacks-app-directory-work-40-apps-from-slack\/","title":{"rendered":"Workbot: A &#8216;Brilliant Bot&#8217; on Slack&#8217;s App Directory!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workbot for Slack, the bot that lets you command your apps from within Slack, is officially up and <em>featured as one of the Brilliant Bots<\/em> on the Slack App Directory! You can download Workbot, add it to your Slack channel and ask it to do anything from getting notifications of your Zendesk, creating a new email campaign in Mailchimp or ticket in Github to gathering information into Slack from your favorite apps like Mixpanel, Salesforce, Eventbrite\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/apps\/A0HVDHQ8Z-workato\" target=\"_blank\">Get Workbot in the Slack App Directory\u00a0&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of companies or groups have picked up on Workbot and are using it\u00a0to connect and work with over 40 apps from Slack. 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