Video Transcript
Hello out there.
I am Anders Thomsen,
one of the three co-founders here at SlideHub,
and I'm happy to present this month's product update.
This month we have a few different things for you,
particularly you as managers.
We have a
number of improvements to the AI experience.
Then we have the option for using
gradient icons when inserting icons.
And we have a brand new email signature feature
which extends our existing Outlook add-in.
Then,
particularly for managers,
we have other new ways you can tweak the AI settings.
We have a new ability to expand to company library.
And then,
as always,
we have a tip of the month from one of our
colleagues in Customer Success as well.
One of the things we spent quite a bit of time on this
month was to improve the Text-to-Slide feature experience.
This included the better handling of text links.
So,
in the past we saw sometimes the slide would have
too much effects compared to the available space.
We also improved the way sources when doing
external searches would be presented in the slide.
Then we improved the image quality.
So,
in the past we have a tendency that the
image quality was a little bit pixelated,
so that's improved now.
In general,
we made some different ways in the backend that
should make it more stable and avoid some of these
occasional errors.
And then for cases where we have long words with limited space,
we automatically added heighthens to
the text to make them present better.
That's all behind the scenes stuff.
If we look at some of the more sort of
direct changes to the experience of the AI,
one thing we added this month was this idea of layout types.
So, why did we actually do this?
So, the idea with the layout types is that
not all slide designs are equally matching to the
content of a given piece of text or a piece of content.
So, for example, if you are presenting a
funnel of some sort,
that is like, you know,
naturally you want a different design for that than if
you are doing a comparison between two different items.
And before we didn't actually take that
into consideration when showing the
layout options, but we are doing that now.
So, now you will start seeing
these different layout categories.
Another thing we've done is that we allow you as
the user to select the type of layout category.
So,
because the AI is never perfect,
you now have the ability to specify the correct layout type yourself,
so that you are sure you find the layout
type that matches your intent with the slide.
So,
let's have a look.
Oh,
in this case,
I am sitting in the texture slide,
Peter,
here.
And I want to create a
slide that's intended to be presenting for audience,
which outlines the order of business today.
Today's for business number one.
Create
product update
review product roadmap.
Just DRM system for new data properties.
So,
this is the same as before.
You're also going to see that the AI then evaluates the input.
But where the new thing come in is that now you will see that
the system then suggested this falls into the bullet point category.
You can see how here are the different
actual categories that's available.
We're still building layouts to match it within all categories.
But
you can then see this is what the AI sort of suggested that this was.
In this case, it thought it was an agenda slide.
But you have this indication here.
But since we don't have any agendas,
it just took the bullet points as sort of a fallback option.
You can see here it thinks this is actually a two bullet point item.
But as we know, I should put in three items in.
So, I can go now and go in
and adjust that.
And then I can then find a,
I think it's appropriate.
I can just click generate.
And then in this way,
you know,
I get a little bit more control over the experience as a user.
As you can see, it's still, you know, a beta.
There's a lot of things we need to make better.
It's still related to this new type of
layout feature.
That's the layout types.
A lot of more improvements coming.
A lot more designs coming.
But I think we now have the foundation in
place for expanding upon this a lot more.
All right.
The next thing I want to show is the
ability to paint the color of icons,
and specifically,
the ability to use gradient colors.
So,
for a long time you have the ability inside
Hub to go in and change the color of the icons
being inserted so you don't manually have to
do it yourself.
So, like here, I can pick a color.
I can insert an icon.
It will then be changed.
The same thing I can also do for gradients.
I can actually do this while replacing the icon directly.
So,
in case I want to go in,
now I'm inserting it.
For instance,
if you want to place,
I go in here.
And let's say I want a gradient color to be added here.
I'll find the standard icons.
I'll pick a new color here.
So, let's do something that looks higher.
I can go in and determine the direction of the gradient.
You can see it changes a little bit over here.
Then I go back.
And then when I insert the icon now,
you can see it
applies the gradient to the icon automatically.
The icon will,
you know,
remember the color setting.
So,
whatever had the last time
be saved.
So,
when going in here,
you see it's still there.
So, you do something.
I'll put the bar.
Expensive bar.
It goes in and it applies automatically.
Yeah.
So, that works.
It gives you a lot more freedom to have more
creative icon styles in your frame palette.
So,
as a manager,
we have also introduced a number of
simplifications where you can manage
these colors on the account.
So,
you can go in in the assets here on the icons.
And then in this area,
you can determine the default color.
So, you can see here the default color.
So, I see this purple color.
You can also go in and apply a gradient color here.
So, this should be the default.
And then what you can do separately is you can say,
I want to allow users to change the colors.
This is particularly helpful if your colleagues works on,
you know,
different brands or different
templates and so on where you want to do lots of different things.
But you can also force the default.
So,
in a scenario where everybody works in
the same template and brand-level time,
that's a really solid option.
That way,
users don't need to sit and change things manually,
but they just use it as a default.
So,
very helpful thing for you as a manager.
The next thing I want to present is our new email signature feature.
So,
as some of you might know,
we had a mixed add-in for Outlook for quite a long time.
We also had the ability to have personal
placeholders to be used in Word documents and slides.
Now,
we're sort of combining those two things in an ability to
have a consistent email signature across the organization.
The way it works is that whenever you start,
if everything is configured from the end user perspective,
whenever you start an email,
the default company email will then be pulled in automatically.
It works on,
you know, web, desktop,
mobile devices, and so forth.
So,
usually we'll always be able to see
the email before sending something out.
The first time a user sees this,
if some of the information is not in the
system yet in order for it to be pre-populated,
they'll have a notification where they can go in and change this.
So,
for example,
I can go ahead and say,
I actually want my build to look like this.
Then click Save the Info.
I can insert the
signature and you can see it then becomes inserted in the right way.
If I am a manager on an account,
I can set up the email signature and
sort of repopulate it across the system.
And I'll show you that now.
If it's enabled on the account,
you can go to branding,
you can enable the signature here.
It will show up over here.
I'll just show you how the building of the signature looks like.
You basically have three options.
You can either optimize it for Outlook.
That means the images get included into the
email if you want to use images.
If you optimize for Gmail and browsers,
the images get included as links,
which works well in Gmail.
And if you want to make,
you don't want to have images in,
you simply just disable them.
This is in general the best thing for deliverability.
So that's what we'll pick here.
Pick a fund here.
In general,
you can only use these predefined generally applicable funds.
If you choose another fund,
people are not going to see it anyway.
So these are the funds that actually works in Browl across different,
across all email clients.
So I'll put in a name.
I'll put in a disclaimer here saying,
we are listing,
showing our
own email signature feature.
You might
see two signatures in this email.
I can then go in and I can include a lot of
user-specific information into each signature.
So this is just a long sort of starting list for things
that could potentially be added to an email signature.
And now just leave all these things as is.
Then the system will generate an
initial starting point or the signature.
What you see here might be a little bit scary
to some people that are not familiar with HTML.
But this is basically where you can 100% customize
the signature the way that you want it to look.
I think in our case,
we don't want to have both phone number and email in.
So we can delete that for example.
I think the apartment is probably an overkill here.
So we'll also remove that.
You can see we have like a starting point.
We have the signature.
The, what's it called?
The, what's it called?
The, um,
claim right here.
I'll just go ahead and modify this claim if I want to here.
Then something that's cool about this is I can go in
and instead of using the same email for both new mails,
drafts and forwards,
I can go ahead and change it.
I'll just take a copy of this.
Okay.
I want from our reply mails.
I don't want to necessarily have
the
address and this part in there.
I think that might be a little bit overkill.
I'll just do this.
I think it's been spacing in there.
So I just do this.
Um, since I'm replying, okay.
I want to just a disclaimer here.
So this should be a little bit shorter.
This one.
I go in for my forward email.
I'll actually keep a clone of that.
So it's just a simple forward.
Um,
actually now that I think about it,
new email signatures.
Um,
I don't want the website to be a personal item.
I want this to be always just be Slideshout's website.
So I can go in and do an override here.
So that's the,
but it always just shows up at Slideshout to come here.
Um,
so basically the only thing that I'm expected to put
in is the address of the office I'm working out of.
The email, the mobile number, and the title.
Right.
I save this and I'm probably just not going to go.
Now that this is published,
it will not automatically enter it again.
But when I go in now, I load it here.
I can get the ability to go in and configure.
The reason why I see this is because some
of the inputs is missing from the view.
So I'm going to say,
okay,
I need to add my phone number.
I need to also add
website in this case.
And the address is save.
I'll keep that.
I'll save it here.
And I can click into it.
Now it inserts with the website and
everything that goes into the signature here.
And I don't need to show this one anymore.
The next time I open up a new email,
it will save it and won't ask me to do anything again.
Um, yeah.
So that's basically how it works.
This is a very new feature.
It's also one that requires a little bit of technical insight.
So what we offer for our existing clients who
are in the role of this feature or new clients,
is that we'll pair you up with the lead developer on this feature.
And Martin,
as he'll call,
will help you configure everything and set it up.
So it matches your needs.
We also plan on the ability to integrate this with
your directory.
Um,
so that if,
in case you have all the information needed to do email signatures,
we can kind of get that directly on your directory.
So yeah,
but, uh,
hope to hear from some of you. Um,
and that's it.
All right.
For managers,
we have a few extra things to be
aware of that has come out this month.
Um,
hopefully to, um, to AI settings.
So inside the AI settings,
if you have AI enabled in your account,
you can enable AI in general
through the
security tab here.
We do encourage you potentially to run
this session or this setting by your IT,
IT to make sure that,
uh,
you sort of accept the,
the use of these,
um, AI workers. Once I enable,
you'll see the AI settings over here.
And what's new with this month is that you have now the ability
to limit AI feature access in general to either just managers,
to all users,
you can also do select the users and managers.
If you do select the users and managers,
what the way it works is that you will need to go in.
And let's say we have my, my, uh,
account here with Carolina here.
We want to give her access.
The AI I'll go in and add it on this level.
And this will give her access to the AI.
Okay.
Okay.
Along with all the managers in the account.
Just return it here.
Um,
another thing we've added is the ability to
automatically accept AI labels for new assets.
As some of you know,
in Slithub,
you can use AI to suggest labels for images and icons.
But now with this feature,
you can actually go in and say,
okay,
don't just suggest them,
just directly implement them.
And I,
if I want to change them,
I'll change them myself afterwards,
but I don't want to sit in and improve them every time.
So I do that by clicking enable there.
So these are the updates to the AI settings.
Okay.
Okay.
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to company library
and then the the image will automatically be added to your library
it takes just a little bit of time as we also
you know if
it also uses the ai to label it and so
forth automatically you can get more things
running at the same time so you don't need to
set and wait for each of them so you can click
you can even go in and search and say like whatever
and you can go in and you can say
this and you can come back to something else like
then as they finalize they get added into your library
and the
images will start
towards the end here
i want to just add it here
and so on in this case because i have enabled
automatically ai tech things get automatically
labeled and get automatically attacked as
well so you can see they already got these
aspects in here
that's hopefully helpful if you want to expand your image library
welcome to this product tip of the
month for the admins of stylehub library
today i would like to share with you how you can
use the similar slide scan feature in the library to
help you catch all the duplicated slides and
also the slides that are very similar in looking
this will help you streamline the library contents and
also make slide update a lot easier because we aim to
to keep only one root slide in the library
and this will be the workflow of how we can do this
so first of all you can do it in two ways one is
through the file upload process and the other one
is to run a scan for all the existing slides in the library
let us do the file upload first
you would just have to do the normal upload
through the manage and then manage assets
and then now i'm gonna upload one more presentations
to my library that i already have one here and then two
more standalone slides
so now i would click on add new
and then let's go to the file that i have
already prepared for this purpose and then i
would just upload as a new file to the library
so i would
just go through the file validation this i would
also want to upload as a presentation i will skip the
categorization part for now but you shouldn't skip
that if you actually would want to keep your library
very well maintained
and now i would want to upload everything also as single slide
and choosing the cover slide as usual and when you
see this step don't skip it this will be my strong
recommendation because this is essentially
doing the seamless slide scanning job here
so from this
uh presentation that i just tried to upload it
has already detected there are few slides that are
similar in nature so we can go through them one by
one for the first example if i click on see similar
this will show me what slide it is being matched to
in the library so i can click also on this highlight
change button to see in a expanded view how different
they are this is an overlapping view it would highlight
the area that it has identified as different or you
can also actually show the side by side view and this
you can see now one slide has an arrow here and one
doesn't so if your conclusion is you want to merge them
into one so only one version would remain then what you can
do is simply click on both of them and click the merge button
in the next step you will be asked which primary
slide you would want to keep meaning which
single version you
would want to overwrite them into so this will not delete any slides
in the library but rather the old one which is uh let's say this one
one now if we have chosen the arrow one as the primary
slide then the existing slide one in this one in the library
will also be updated to have an arrow now because we have merged them
so this is what i'm gonna do
so you can just click on merge
and you just have to go through all of them one by one to see
what you decide to do with them
let's take another look at this one so this is a
end slide that i have got here if i click on see
similar i can see already very clearly one is with
a star one is without
if i want to keep both of the versions
in the library i don't want to merge them
because maybe they are just a different variant
i want my end users to have more choices
so i can click
on both of them but instead of clicking merge
you can say accept similarity this is a quite typical for like
a breaker slide uh end slide front slide if you have
multiple versions of very similar looking slides
so if you click on confirm this will inform the
system not to show this anymore when you run the
similar slide scan result
so for this one
i would do the same because i think both of them look great
i would want to keep both of them so again
i would say accept similarity for them
click confirm
and now we have uh clear all the
similar slides uh in the upload process
so i can click on continue
the final step is what you have already seen
before which is to apply categorization for the
different standalone slides that you have tried to upload
so here i would just say skip this and rest
and now we have uploaded the new presentation to the library already
and if we want to check we can
also see that in the original presentation
here the one that has been merged
which is this slide
and now
you can see the arrow version here instead of the one
without because this is what we have done to merge the slide
uh previously during the file upload
so you can also see it in the slide log
so this is one way the other way
what you can do is to uh just go back to the manage view
and this time i just simply click on manage assets i
don't want to upload any new slides anymore
instead i would want to run a comprehensive scan
of all the existing
slides in the library
so here uh first i would go to the slide
type to select all include presentation only
because this is the filter that would
include all the slides in the library
a slide can either be
presentation only or standalone slide
so this is what i've got and then i would just have to click on
find similar for all style and this will show me all the result
just like what we saw before and then
you can decide what to do uh slide by slide so
this is how you can do also for the similar slide
scanning for all the slides in the library hope you
enjoyed this tip of the month and see you next time
all right that was everything for this month
thanks for tuning in and i look forward to giving you
another update next month have a wonderful february take care bye
