MoM & WoW to Slack!
#MakeoverMonday and #WorkoutWednesday2019 in Slack!
Makeover Monday and Workout Wednesday are two of the largest groups within The Community. These server as great platforms to learn new tricks, hone your skills, and iterate, iterate, iterate. Recently I created a #tableau_challenges channel in our team’s Slack workspace. I had been sharing whenever there were new posts, but in the days of automation: why? Let’s make us all informed ASAP.
Makeover Monday and Workout Wednesday (Method 1)
Thankfully both sites have an RSS feed and this makes it really easy to add to Slack.
Navigate to the RSS app in Slack’s directory by clicking here.
Scroll down to Add a Feed follow the steps for each URL below:
Makeover Monday: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/feed/
Note: Currently this is not updated “in real time” so you may want to use Method 2 below
Workout Wednesday: http://www.workout-wednesday.com/feed/
That’s it! The respective RSS feed should now appear under Your Feeds.
Now you can sit back and relax and wait for a new post to see your work in action. Here’s an example of the Workout Wednesday feed:
Makeover Monday (Method 2)
Makeover Monday posts to their data.world account every week with links to the article and the dataset. As such, this can serve as a good way to get notified thanks to data.world’s Slack integration.
Follow the link above (or click on the image) to head to the page and click on the Add to Slack button.
Once this is done you’ll get notified in Slack that you’ve added the app.
Once this is added you will need to authenticate your account and, finally, you can subscribe using /data.world subscribe makeovermonday to get updates. Done!
