5 steps to get started with self-service - Step 5: Optimize your help center and plan maintenance

Aug 19, 2025

On August 12, the Zendesk team hosted the last delivery of our series 5 steps to get started with self-service - Step 5: Optimize your help center and plan ongoing maintenance.
Join us in this Zendesk session, to watch our experts Patty and David guide attendees through advanced strategies for optimizing and maintaining a Help Center as part of a broader self-service series.
The focus was on enhancing knowledge base articles with multimedia, managing content efficiently using article lists and context panels, and leveraging enterprise features like team publishing and article verification.
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Highlights included

00:00 - Intro and agenda

04:24 - Multimedia for self-service

07:37 - Demo - How to insert media into help center articles

14:33 - Article lists

17:59 - Demo - How to use the article lists for your help center maintenance

20:39 - Knowledge in the context panel

23:47 - Demo - Creating articles directly from tickets

30:31 - Article comments

32:28 - Demo - How to create a ticket from article comments

34:46 - Enterprise features for knowledge management

44:24 - Q&A

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