Social Sidekick is Denim Social’s AI-powered tool that helps users get started figuring out what to say when they don’t know what to say! This feature enables users to use text or a URL as the basis for generating content for their post. Social Sidekick is available to customers on Denim Social’s Advanced Plan. To learn more, reach out to your customer success team at success@denimsocial.com.
This article will go over the following:
How to use
Check out this video, or follow the instructions below.
To start using the feature type what you want to use as the basis for your post, whether it be a few keywords, some text or a URL. When ready, press the “Generate Post” button.
Generating a post will take a few seconds. Once the processing is complete Social Sidekick will replace the original text you wrote with the new content it generated for you. If you are not entirely happy with the results you can press the “Regenerate” button. This button will take your original input and regenerate the post based on that.
If you at any point want to go back to a previous result, or all the way back to your original input, use the “Undo” button.
How to enable Social Sidekick for your team
Social Sidekick is available to customers on Denim Social’s Advanced Plan. To learn more, reach out to your customer success team at success@denimsocial.com.
Enabling Social Sidekick for your users is as easy as checking the 'AI: Generate Posts' permissions box in their role. Once you check that box and and click save, all users within that role will be able to use Social Sidekick. Note - Any posts for which they update copy will need to go through the approval workflow, so you can rest assured that all posts going out of Denim Social are compliant.
Applications
The applications for this feature are numerous and largely depend on your creativity! However, here are a few examples of how the Social Sidekick can be utilized:
You want to share an engaging article but need help getting started. Paste the URL to the article, click “Generate Post,” and post text based on the URL is generated.
You want to create a post about a specific topic, such as Veterans Day, but need ideas for what to write. Type a few keywords into the Compose editor, like “veterans day, thank you for your service,” and click “Generate Post”. Text is then generated based on these keywords.
Your admin has scheduled a post, but you desire to alter the tone or wording. Go to the post that has been scheduled for you and click “Customize Post’' to enter the Compose screen. Once the post has loaded click “Generate Post”. A modified version of the text is then generated. Additionally, you could add your own instructions to modify for example the tone of the post. To do this add a sentence like “Make the post sound really exciting!” at the end of the text and click “Generate Post”. A further modified version of the original post is then generated.
You have created a post that exceeds Twitter’s 280-character limit, but want to make it work for Twitter. Instead of manually shortening the text, click the dropdown button next to “Generate Post” and choose “Generate for Twitter.” A new post text, adhering to Twitter’s requirements, is then generated.