For one of my projects, much of the content I hope to share comes from an executive sponsor who is a very strong storyteller and provides their updates via webinars. But using the transcripts that are auto-generated for these kinds … Continue reading Transcript Scrubber
One aspect of ChatGPT that I failed to discover earlier this year is the two-per-day image generation option for free users of that platform. Sure Dall-E has more options for image generation, but that same generative AI technology drives the … Continue reading New Images Twice a Day In ChatGPT
If you have Adobe Photoshop access, editing out unwanted items from an image got a lot easier in 2024. Even if the Adobe AI editing tools were present before this year, it feels like they have made several giant leaps … Continue reading Generative AI Editing in Photoshop
Nine years ago, a small group of IT marketing professionals met to discuss the challenges of working in tiny teams or as a team of one. Stumbling across the highlights of that meeting, I ran them through ChatGPT to see … Continue reading Getting it Done with a Team of One
High speed servers and fast-moving cars are both designed for performance, but few owners want to polish their server or take it for a spin. Does this Server Make Me Look Fast? When you’ve got a new story about your … Continue reading We’ve Got Your Back(up) Image
With the rapidly evolving improvements of our generative AI tools, it gets easier and easier to hand off responsibility to a chatbot and just perform a quick review of the results. Don’t do it! I’ve been using the “Write Like … Continue reading Hand Off Responsibility, or Not
If you are lucky enough to be copied on executive messages to other leaders about a new initiative, your luck probably extends to a content creation invitation. First, a Word About Privacy Consider where you want the content of those … Continue reading Find the Common Theme in Five Emails
When you have more content than fits within a chatbot’s character limit for prompts and pasted text, how can you still achieve a summary or identification of key points? My university’s approved chatbot struggled with the amount of text I … Continue reading Summarize a Webinar Transcript
If colleagues and executives struggle to distill their message into fewer than 30 slides in a deck, I often ask them for an elevator pitch. If that request still leaves them flummoxed, I’ll suggest three sentences: what is the problem, … Continue reading Create an Elevator Pitch
Since beginning my generative AI journey, the tools have continued to improve in ways that better suit my needs as an IT technical communicator. The bulk of my time is spent writing web and news content. It is work I … Continue reading Write Like Me
If you are new to generative AI tools, you might wonder why anyone uses a prompt library. First, think of prompts as recipes – instructions that help you turn out a consistent result over and over. For this reason, some … Continue reading Explain a Prompt Library or Cookbook
On May 17, 2024, just days after the announcement of GPT-4o, the following prompt only worked for me in ChatGPT. By May 20, the full prompt execution also worked in Microsoft Copilot/Bing. Originally in Bing, the prompt it would generate … Continue reading Communications Workflow