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EPISODE #68: SHEL HOLTZ – EMBRACING CHATGPT FOR INTERNAL COMMS

January 30, 2023 by Sharon McIntosh and Sharon Phillips Leave a Comment

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is here, and no one is less surprised than Shel Holtz.

So many of us know Shel from his 40-plus years as a consultant, speaker, blogger, author, and co-founder of the FIR Podcast Network, but it is his fascination with emerging technologies that make him the ideal person to discuss AI models like ChatGPT.

“Mark my words,” Shel wrote in 2016, “Bots are coming to the workplace, to media relations, to public relations. They are coming just as surely as the web was going to completely disrupt the way communications was done a quarter century ago.”

Now, with his prediction a reality, Shel joins our podcast to urge communicators to embrace AI tools, rather than fear being replaced by them. To Shel, learning how to properly – and ethically – use AI is becoming an essential skill and can help us generate ideas, overcome writers block, teach writing, and save time.
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Filed Under: EE Voice Tagged With: AI, chatbots, ChatGPT, Content Writing, productivity tools, shel holtz, Writing

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Inside PR 437: Twitter at Ten; Error-Free Writing; Ghomeshi Aftermath

March 28, 2016 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/prworks/IPR437.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:49 — 20.1MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Subscription OptionsTwitter turns ten. Four tips for good writing. And a legal decision that brings nothing good to anyone. This week, on Inside PR 437, Gini Dietrich and Joseph Thornley fly without Martin Waxman. But we’ll all be back again… Continue Reading →

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