Standup, Polls & Surveys by Geekbot vs Box

Run standups, polls and surveys – all in Slack. Geekbot helps distributed teams stay connected by running asynchronous standups, retros, polls and surveys, without disrupting deep work. Get key insights, skip unnecessary meetings, and keep everyone aligned, all in Slack. How Geekbot Helps Your Team Run async standups & polls: Set up automated standups and polls that fit your team’s schedule and time zones. Get clear summaries of team progress: Receive easy-to-understand summaries of your team’s updates for better decision-making. Reduce meeting fatigue: Replace status meetings with lightweight Geekbot updates in Slack. Engage your team: Run polls, surveys, and retrospectives with ease. AI-powered insights: Identify blockers, track participation, monitor mood, and highlight hot topics. Ready-made templates: Get started quickly with templates for Product Development, Team Syncing, HR, and more. Why Teams Love Geekbot Seamless Slack experience: No extra apps, no distractions. Answer in Slack when it’s convenient. Real-time reporting: See responses, trends, and team sentiment at a glance in Slack or on your Geekbot dashboard. Perfect for remote & hybrid teams: Supports flexible schedules and async work styles. Customizable workflows: Tailor standups, surveys, and polls to fit your team’s needs. Get Started in Minutes Install Geekbot in Slack. Set up your first standup, poll, or survey in minutes. Let Geekbot do the rest—syncing your team effortlessly. Join over 200,000 users from teams at Sony, Netflix, Shopify, and more who use Geekbot to make meetings faster, more effective, and less disruptive.

Box for Slack helps businesses of all sizes securely manage and collaborate on content to drive more productive teamwork. Easily access your Box content from within Slack to share or import files and eliminate time-consuming context switching between applications. Your content remains centralized in Box, but quickly available where collaboration happens in Slack. Learn more with this quick video: https://players.brightcove.net/6291496955001/experience_64dd284838db922b5372284c/share.html End-user features: ● Content cards: View file information such as name, author, thumbnail and more when a Box file is shared to Slack ● Instant permissions: Update the collaboration permissions of a Box file directly from within Slack ● Box slash commands: Quickly perform common actions such as searching for files and viewing recent files within Slack ● Automatic uploads to Box: Store all content uploaded via Slack UI in Box ● Box file picker: Securely share content from Box in channels and direct messages without leaving conversations ● Share files from the Box Web app preview: click the Slack icon in the sidebar of the app preview to take its link into Slack and send it to channels and conversations of your choice (learn more: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044193853) ● Box event notifications: stay up to date with collaboration invites and exchanging comments on files in Box ● Dynamic previews: Get rich, dynamic previews of entire Box files like PDFs, spreadsheets, slide decks, without leaving Slack, with access always governed by your secure Box permissions. ● Slackbot integration (optional): Connect to the Box MCP server, allowing Slackbot to perform user-requested actions in Box such as search, access, and update Box files and folders, manage collaborators or Hubs, and more. Admin features ● Enable/disable file thumbnails: Choose whether file thumbnails are displayed for shared Box files ● Enable/disable permission checks before file display: Choose whether content cards are shown based on Box file permissions ● Enable/disable content indexing for Search in Slack: Choose whether the contents of shared Box files are indexed and surfaced in Slack’s native search ● Slack allowlisting: Restrict the app to specific Slack workspaces or Enterprise Grid orgs that can be connected to your Box enterprise instance ● Enable/disable Box as content layer: Choose whether to store all content uploaded via Slack UI in Box for specific Slack workspaces or Enterprise Grid orgs (learn more: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415585987859-Box-as-the-Content-Layer-for-Slack) Note: Admin settings can be customized from within the Admin Console in Box - please visit the Box Community site (https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/p/Integration_Page_2023?section-id=21356608707859) for more information. Box AI features ● Let Box AI assist you with its insights on Box files shared in Slack (learn more: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/30754152990099-Box-AI-for-Slack) ● As an admin, choose if, where and how Box AI assistance is offered for Box files surfaced in Slack ● Limitations/disclaimer: questions on, or including these topics or commands, return mixed and sometimes inaccurate information, such as calculations, table structures, and numbers, counting words or phrases, document metadata such as page number, authors, file size, word count, and collaborators, images, videos, charts, graphs, etc. Box for Slack is available for Box customers on eligible paid plans. See https://box.com/pricing for detailsMore ways to use Box in SlackAutomate with Workflow BuilderWorkflow Builder* lets you transform everyday processes into automations, without writing a single line of code. Add third-party tools like Box to workflows to manage work and processes from Slack, and use templates to get started quickly. Learn more about automations Templates available for Box: Box Sign signature requestUse Slack to send a person documents to sign from a Box Sign template New Box folderFill out a form and create a new folder in Box *Workflow Builder is only available on paid subscriptions