Talk to your meeting room the same way you talk to your coworkers! Try this free Slack integration!

Can you imagine work without Slack? Everything happens there! From team updates, funny memes to a lot of footsteps saved since you can just about ping anyone you need without having to walk over to their desk.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could book a meeting room from Slack as well?

You can message your meeting room the same way you message your colleagues and have it reserve a spot when you need it. Straight from Slack!

Imagine this: You need to have a quick sync with a coworker. You walk around to find a free meeting room and need to book it through your calendar so you aren’t thrown out midway.

With JOAN’s Slack integration, you don’t even have to go looking for a meeting room. JOAN will do that for you.

Simply send a DM to @joan-bot, saying “Find me a room” or “Get me a room” or something similar and behold a list of free meeting spaces.

Select the one you want and @joan-bot will reserve it for you for 30 minutes.

This is how you do it: Send a DM to @joan-bot with “free room,” “Get/Find me a room,” “Any free rooms?”, “Which room is free?”, etc. and JOAN will give you the list of free rooms.

JOAN’s Slack integration is currently in beta, so this is just the beginning! We’ll keep new features coming!

Oh, and did we mention? @joan-bot is completely free and available to everyone!

We’re on a mission to create the best, the simplest and the awesomest meeting room booking experience ever and that means giving away free software!

You don’t need to hook up Joan to your meeting room (though we wouldn’t mind if you order one or two). Anyone can use the integration and benefit from it!

This makes going into your calendar to find a free meeting room and book a meeting the cave way of doing this and a sheer waste of time.

Joan’s Slack integration takes booking out of the clunky calendar and works it into your Slack workflow.

You can book a meeting room comfortably and efficiently.

Plus, the options are limitless.

What if you could say: “Hey, Boardroom 2, I have a big meeting coming up on Thursday from 2 to 4pm, book a spot for me, would you?”

Or if you could say “Hey, I’d like to schedule a meeting with John, Adam and Lisa on Thursday. What time works for all of us?”

We’re thinking automatic reminders that a meeting is coming up, so latecomers won’t have any excuse. We’re thinking even about ordering coffee or lunch or letting the IT department know the screencast isn’t working for some reason.

Joan’s Slack integration, currently in beta, is working on doing all that so you can cut time where you can, work better, do more and be happier about it.

Get it here!

It’s absolutely free. No strings attached. You don’t need to buy anything. Just create a Joan Portal account, turn on Joan Labs, add the integration to Slack.

Create your Joan Portal account, turn on Joan Labs and add the integration to Slack to book a meeting straight from there.

But if you do want to slap a super cool display onto your meeting room door that’ll allow you to book a meeting right at the meeting room door or through the company calendar, show you the room status, meeting info, the daily meeting schedule, and more and more, this might be a link to our webstore. Just sayin’.

We even have a free API!

Free software is the bomb!

We’ll keep more articles like this coming. And some behind the scenes as well!