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
Even after achieving results you can use, it is still a good idea to evaluate the response. Andrew Maynard describes the RACCCA method of evaluation. This type of evaluation can help you improve your future prompts. Bonus: these prompts are … Continue reading Evaluate Prompt Responses
After struggling with my prompts on a previous editing assignment, I went back to my notes from my different generative AI courses. The results of this one impressed me so much that I’m saving it here in my library for … Continue reading Editing for News Writers
Many thanks to Heather Markle, Program Manager for Marketing and Communications in Applied Graduate Engineering at the University of Maryland for the original prompt that I’ve edited for this post. Text Prompt You are an internal communications professional for Cornell … Continue reading Marketing Prompt and Workflow
Need to generate a creative social media post? There will be a day when you know you need to type something but can only stare at your screen with a blank mind. To get you going, here is a prompt … Continue reading Social Media Jumpstart