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June Newsletter (2020)

Mark Ammendolia
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June 4, 2020

Monthly Digest | June 2020

It's been a busy month at Voiceflow with the release of two new workflow features, seven tutorials, six online workshops, and a host of smaller product updates to support better organization and efficiency in your projects.

Here are your Voiceflow highlights for the Month of June:

Product

Introducing Canvas Markup & Export

Voiceflow launches Canvas Markup for Pro, Team & Enterprise Plans

At Voiceflow, we're constantly working to find solutions for our users – especially when it comes to improving their workflow. With the launch of Canvas Markup and Export, it's never been easier to contextualize your projects, consolidate your work, and hand-off to team members.

Want to see Canvas Markup and Export in action? Check out this video.

Learn more about this release here

Learn

Logic Tutorials & Playlist now live

Ready to take your conversation designs to the next level? Dive into our latest tutorial series: Intro to Logic, where you'll learn how to create more personalized conversations with your users. This series tackles each block/step in the logic drop-down menu including condition, set, capture, random, exit and flows. Stay tuned for more tutorials in the coming weeks!

If you'd rather take part in a live workshop where you can ask questions, tune into our Fix it Hour with Nico every Thursday. In last week's edition, we showed you how to build a pizza ordering skill using Voiceflow.

Can't make it? Not to worry. All of our webinars are made available on-demand here.

Check out videos and tutorials here

Events

Conversation Design Series Underway

This month we had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Blankenburg, Alexa Evangelist at Amazon, and Celene Osiecka, Director of Conversation Design at [24]7.ai to talk about their current roles, the future impact of voice technology, and what conversation designers should be thinking about now.

Check out this month’s events, now available to stream.


Conversation Design Series: Jeff Blankenburg

Meet Jeff Blankenburg, Alexa Evangelist at Amazon. In this AMA, Jeff talks about his trajectory from developer to PM to evangelist, and his advice for conversation designers today.

AMA Series | 60 mins | Stream now

Conversation Design Series: Celene Osiecka

Celene Osiecka, Sr. Director of Conversation Design at [24]7.ai, is a seasoned conversation designer with experience in bots, AI, and now voice. Tune in as she takes us through what she's learned in the past 15+ years of conversation design.

AMA Series | 53 mins | Stream now

Check out upcoming events

Thoughts

For your reading list

Canvas Markup & Export: a big win for team workflows | Blog

From getting feedback, to adding context or flair – our newest pro features are helping teams work better, together.

Written by Mark Ammendolia | 5 mins

Voiceflow launches new introductory tutorial series | Blog

This long awaited reboot of our YouTube tutorials offers a fresh, remastered approach reflecting Voiceflow's most recent updates, including our canvas redesign experience, new editors and UI and UX improvements.

Written by Mark Ammendolia | 12 videos | 125 mins (watch time)

The 3 phases of independent assistants | Blog

Discussing the rise of independent assistants, their lifecycles, and how they might affect voice in the future.

Written by Braden Ream | 5 mins

Check out more stories

This Month

What's coming up?

Product: Commenting, Component Library, JSON export and more, coming soon

Events: Conversation Design Documentation Workshop, sign up

Community: get involved with our community docs or forum, learn more

Education: more tutorials for intermediate users, subscribe

Conferences: Join Voiceflow at the virtual Nashville Voice Conference (Aug 7th)