Broadcasting with Slack
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Employee Advocacy, integrated with Slack, is committed to enabling you to amplify employee voices to drive tangible business results. With this integration, you can:
- Promote employee engagement: Keep your organization engaged with new and exciting company stories, right within Slack.
- Amplify content across your organization: Broadcast select stories to Slack channels so your team is notified of important news.
- Access shareable content at your fingertips: Employees can discover Advocacy stories within Slack channels and share them across their social networks through Advocacy.
A paid Employee Advocacy subscription is required to use this app integration. Learn more about Employee Advocacy at https://sproutsocial.com/features/employee-advocacy/
Connect a Slack account
If you're an Admin in Employee Advocacy, you can connect your company's Slack account. To connect:
- Navigate to Company Settings > General.
- Select Connect to Slack in the enable the integration.
3. If you are an App Manager for your Slack workspace, you can accept the requested permissions to use the integration.
If you're not an administrator, you can submit a request for them to review:
Broadcasting a Story to Slack
After you connect Slack, you can start broadcasting Stories. To broadcast a Story:
- Navigate to the Story you want to broadcast.
- Click the Story.
- Click
> Broadcast.
- Select Slack and choose the proper public channel.
- Click Send Broadcast.
A link and preview of the story appears in the public Slack channel you selected. Clicking the link takes an employee back to Employee Advocacy, where they can read the content and share across their networks.
Additional functionality
You can also run the command /advocacy help within a Slack channel or direct message to see a list of potential stories to share:
