My tech industry and marketing background from the past 25 years has given me deep geeky roots. While over the last 10 years I’ve shifted my primary focus from marketing to enriching lives through speaking, coaching and workshops, I’m still enjoying this new age of technology in many ways.
The literal explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI opens the door to new ways to use technology for good. It also makes it even more important that we all pay attention to how these tools are used, to choose wisely how we use them and how they are governed.
I’ve been loving using these tools to learn, research, improve my knowledge and writing abilities, brainstorm now projects and help clients with creating customized training and coaching programs that suit their needs. As a public speaker I’m working with organizations to train AI models to better understand human emotions and recognize patterns.
If you’re curious about these tools but daunted by a feeling you aren’t geeky enough, don’t worry, there are some amazing tools that you can easily use, and you most likely are using them already.
For example.
Do you have a smart phone, smart speaker, smart lights? or smart TV? Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Siri or a gazillion of customer service apps are in the background helping us out.
Grammarly helps fine tune writing skills to make that presentation or email sing.
I frequently use Otter.ai to keep notes for meetings, send transcripts, list action items, and it even make suggestions or generate status update emails.
Chat GPT, Gemini, Claude and Jasper are all great to do your research for you, write a great story or marketing materials. I often use these as a basis for my work whether teaching, coaching or writing this blog post. Each of these tools has it’s own way of being, so it’s good to experiment a bit and see which works best for you. Ask me if you want advice, I love helping people learn how to easily use these tools.
Canva is my current favorite to create images and videos for websites, social media, printing flyers, posters nr t-shirts using AI assisted graphics,
Lingolette, DuoLingo and Jumpspeak are amazing language apps that use AI to process actual conversations with an AI program in natural languages.
Gmail and Gemini
I could go on and on, but I’m really writing this because I’ve been sharing a lot lately how the combination of Gmail and Gemini has been a gamechanger for me in my cluttered, sloppy, overwhelmed Gmail account, and wanted to share it with you. So I’ve put together a free e-book with some tips and 50 ways you too can use Gemini and Gmail together. Happy new year! Grab your copy now.