Introduction

I'm gonna try and do the next one, but with a mic and I have a keyboard, which is a little bit harder, so I'm gonna try and go through. Now, I want to walk you through a flow that I use quite a lot, which is here in the next, actually, I'm gonna start first.

How many of you know of gamma? Okay, so about 10%, 15% of the room, because I think I've, used gamma in the pot like six months ago once.

How many of you have heard of Notebook LM? Okay, so you know what is gonna come at that bit. And then how many of you have heard of Napkin AI? How many of you have heard of all three? Okay, good, so most people are gonna go and find something new here.

Building a Presentation

What I want to do is walk you through how I nowadays would try and approach building a presentation in a normal work environment. And so we're going to go and do this live in the next 20 minutes.

First thing, and I'm really gonna have a, bit of trouble with the mic here. Okay, so I'm gonna try and type with one hand.

Nope. So, I'm gonna say, imagine you're an experienced presentation builder, expert at asking the right questions to figure out what needs to go into a presentation.

All right, tonight we're gonna go and build a presentation where I want to pitch to my exec team why they should be building a community to support their product. Weird, something we do. So, okay, so I want to create a presentation to pitch to my exec team about why we should build a community to support our product.

Now, the next bit is, I wonder how many of you, I mean, how many of you use ChatGPT every day? Decent, how many of you would use it at least 10 times a day? at least 100 times a week. Okay, get in there.

For those that are 100 times a week, I have a little thing at the very end to remind me of that. It's very interesting.

Using ChatGPT

Okay, so a little trick that I would do here that I would use is now ask me one question at a time, waiting for my answer in between to help you, to help or to get all the information you need to build a great presentation. So this is a very simple, different way of querying ChatGPT where we start with.

I mean, I hope that the internet actually holds up. It does not seem to, right? No, wait, what's going wrong?

I mean, no, the prompt is fairly simple. So here what I'm doing is I'm asking Chattopadhyay to ask me questions in order for it to gather the data that it might need to help me. So it's a little bit kind of meta going through.

So first thing it's asking is what is the primary goal of building this community? Okay, so one, to stay up to date on recent developments. Two, visibility. Three, knowledge sharing. And then maybe four, fun.

Figure out what comes through here. Okay, so now it goes through, got it.

Who is the target audience for this community? Are you focusing on existing customers, potential customers, industry professionals? I'm gonna say all of The above.

Don't worry, I'm not gonna go through 50 different questions here, but in my normal flow I would. So I would actually go through, so that as you will have seen here, the instruction I gave is ask me one question at a time, waiting for my answer in between, to get all the information you need to build a great presentation.

At some point it's going to stop. Actually I should have slightly tweaked this, is until you have all the information you need to build a great presentation. Like this, it would continue with all these questions.

And sometimes I do get 50 questions because I'm giving very short answers like I'm doing now. And it can actually go on quite a while because you need a lot of information to build a good presentation. So I'm going to do maybe two more.

Defining Community Goals

What kind of activities and interactions do you envision taking place in this community? Live demos. It's an AI or it's a practical AI community.

Okay, so here vision staking, staying up to date, live demos, there we go, okay. And we're gonna do one more.

How will you measure the success of the community? Feedback and more people coming every time.

Now, stop with questions and build me a presentation outline to pitch this to my exec team.

Creating the Outline

Okay, so here I've specifically shortcut it. Normally I would go through, I would basically wait, well, either I would wait until it finishes or if I really have given it what I think is enough information, I would stop it at that point. But here it's now starting to build a presentation.

So one, introduction, so explain why we're here today, key points, why build a community, who is the community for, what will the community look like, measuring success, long-term vision, next steps, conclusion. Fairly simple, right?

Now, any good presentation would make it come to life. It's just, it's very dry when it's purely like this.

So what I'm gonna do now is imagine you're an experienced copywriter. Write me a, or, make this presentation come to life in a way that my exec team can connect with, use, or invent the story. So now it's going to go and basically start filling in a little bit more of a story that we can use as we start to paint what this presentation might be like.

Adding a Story

Imagine this, a place where our customers, potential customers and industry leaders all gather, not just to learn about our product, but actively engage with it. They come to see live demos, exchange ideas, leave every time with something valuable.

I hope that will be at least after this, after any of the talks of today. This isn't just a marketing play, it's an ecosystem.

We're about to build a place where our product becomes central to the conversations happening across the industry. Okay, I'm not gonna go and run through everything.

Well, I mean, it's still actually filling out the last bits. What I am going to do, let me just see.

Okay, whilst it's actually finishing that, I am going to add two things here. I should have actually opened these earlier.

Using Notebook LM

So one of the things that I like to do, at least when I, if you go and have to brief a team, so you have some pre-reading to do, or some idea of what this community might be like, that I would like to give this exec team. What I'm gonna do, so I'm going to take previous talks. So these are the talks actually from last month, from September.

And I'm gonna go to notebook.lm. I'm going to open one here and what I'm going to do is I am very simply going to feed it. The talks of the last meet up that we had.

So here create a new notebook link. Go to the second one. Add another source. And then the third one.

As you can see, I'm not doing I'm doing it pretty quickly, maybe for those of you that are not familiar with these tools, but I'm not doing anything difficult. I'm going to just hit generate and we're going to come back to this particular one in a second. In the meantime, I'm going to continue here.

I have got my fully developed presentation with a story that I want to use and I'm going to copy. The content I have here and I'm going to run over to actually am I doing this in the right order? No, yeah, I can do it here.

Using Gamma

At Gamma, Gamma is a presentation creation tool, so you can do various things with this. So you can just paste in the text, you can generate it from scratch if you just want to go back and forth with Gamma. I prefer to do the actual brainstorming in ChatGPT or Cloud or somewhere else, and then I just paste in the text into Gamma.

So the only thing I do here is I just copy-pasted the entire feedback I got from ChatGPT. You can decide what format you want to create here, a presentation, a website, or a document. If you wanted a document spec, you could use that.

Here I'm going to go and choose to build a presentation. I hit continue. It's going to ask me a few questions.

So I get a bit of control over what do I want the output to be here? Do I want it to condense the text I have? Do I want it to just generate, like take inspiration from the text that I have and generate the text itself?

In this case, I like my presentations to be brief. I want the presentation to be support to the story that I'm building, not for people to read all the slides that are in the back. And here it's telling me, okay, so this is gonna be written for an executive team within a technology company.

They got that right. The tone should be enthusiastic, persuasive, and visionary. You can change all of this in order to make sure that you're guiding the presentation that's being built.

You can actually choose the image model for those of you that are interested in that. So, I mean, this is a bit hard to really explain what comes out here, but I'm just going to go with Flux Pro 1.1, which is one of the better image models out there. And then I am actually going to decide to have, what can I do?

Oh, it's doing 10 cards in total, interesting. Normally, I think there's a little bug here. Normally you can tweak the number of cards that comes out.

I think it didn't load them here. So I'm gonna just go with 10 cards in this case. Gamma's cards are the equivalent of a slide in a presentation, so it's nothing more than that.

And I'm just going to hit continue. Oh, one more step, I can select a theme. In this case, I am going to select the theme, which is our Mindstone theme.

It imports your own theme as well. So you can just, if you have a PDF or a PowerPoint, you can upload that to Gamma. It'll automatically figure out what your theme is, and then it becomes available as a custom theme for you to use.

So you can use your corporate theme or whatever you want to have in it. And then I'm hitting Generate. And then we wait for a few seconds.

Ah, maybe 20 seconds. What it's doing now, it's live building a presentation for me. It's going through the story that we gave it, the context that we gave it, and it's building out the full narrative.

Generating the Presentation

It's also creating the imagery for each slide. and all of it is editable. So by the end of this, when it's done with the 10 slides that it's building, well, actually you can see the images already coming through here.

Everything, as I said, is editable, so you can just take this out. You can even export it as PowerPoint if you prefer to work in PowerPoint. By the way, the same thing works if you use Copilot.

Not the biggest fan of Copilot overall, but the one part where it is actually really useful is Copilot for PowerPoint because it does something similar to this where you can copy paste it in. The only problem is that the prompt size in Copilot is really limited, so you want to make sure that the story you feed it is fairly small. But you can see here, we have building a community around our product, a new way to engage.

Why build a community now? Our community ecosystem, interactive community feature, live demos, practical workshops, Q&A sessions. I imagine this was part of the text.

I didn't read all the texts that it generated. Obviously, normally I would look at this in detail, right? This is a live demo in 15 to 20 minutes, so trying to keep it all short.

Measuring success, long-term vision, and then implementation roadmap. Here we go. All of this now present here.

You can even share this as a website by the way. So if you go here, where is it? Collaborate share. You can share this as a website and then anyone can use it there or you can export it as a PDF or a PowerPoint.

Using Napkin AI

Now, I am going to go and do the same thing. I'm gonna take, actually I still have it in my copy pad.

I'm gonna go to Napkin AI. I'm gonna create a new one here.

1Napkin AI is a tool that allows you to take text, that it takes any piece of text you have and turns it into a diagram. Now, I know this is a bit nerdy if you'd like to create diagrams in a way.

I sometimes have to. I mean, we are building a company. Sometimes I go into investor presentations or sometimes just a visualization can really communicate a lot more than two or three paragraphs of text could.

So I'm going to copy paste it here. And I'm just gonna select this, actually, so Napkin.io identifies the various pieces that might be good parts of visualization.

So here I'm gonna take the first bit, which is why build a community? I just hit generate. And here we go.

I can choose between the visualizations of this particular paragraph that I now want to use. So let's see what we're looking at here. Okay.

I can take this visualization, I can export it, I can export it as a PNG, as a PDF. I can use that, import it back into my presentation.

Now I can very quickly produce these. I don't know about you, but I tried to do this in PowerPoint for years and years and years. One, they never really get you where you want to get to, but two, you have to go and do the work yourself and figure out how to get there here.

Just suggest what is the right type of visualization for the paragraph that you are trying to visualize. Extremely interesting.

Yeah, so you can copy paste that back into a gamma presentation if you want, or if you had exported it from grammar into PowerPoint, you can use it there, whatever you want to do. Now,

The last bit, I actually have to, I think I have to change the sound. No, the sound is already in the right way. Here we go.

Giving Execs a Realistic Idea

So what I would do normally, and the reason I fed these three meetups into Notebook in the background as it was kind of building up, is I want to give these execs I'm pitching to an idea for what a meetup really would be about. Give them a good idea, okay, well, what are we actually going to create? What is the vibe going to be?

Now, This would be something I could give them. You sent us some really fascinating talks about AI and where it's going. So today we're diving deep into how AI could change pretty much everything from movies to how we work every day.

Yeah, it's a good time for this. What's really interesting about these talks is that they don't just tell us what AI can do, but they really get into how it'll actually change things for us. Totally.

So let's start with Yalan and their experience with AI filmmaking. Going from a YouTube strategist to someone making films for festivals, it really shows how these AI tools are changing things for creatives. It's like AI is making filmmaking accessible to everyone, don't you think? You don't need a big studio to try this stuff out anymore.

Exactly. And it's really cool how Yalan used AI to break through their own creative blocks. They even submitted an AI-made film to a festival. That's amazing.

That takes guts. It really shows how much they see AI as like a creative partner, not just a tool. Yilan uses this really neat combo of tools, starting with a custom chat GPT for writing the script. Wow.

A custom chat GPT. I can only imagine how much easier that would make it to, you know, get those first ideas down. Oh, absolutely.

Now, I mean, this was created in the last three minutes, as you saw, literally as I was flicking back between these two screens. If I had actually pushed a little bit further, I would have taken the presentation back out of Gamma, thrown it back into Notebook LM, and it would likely then get to a point where it would understand that I am pitching an AI community and that I gave it examples of three talks of that community, and the whole thing would come to life in that way. So imagine being able to send that to...

I mean, all exec teams in the world are time poor. No one really reads everything. But a 10 minute podcast on their commute to work just before you have your meeting, if you tell them, hey, just listen to these 10 minutes, that's all I'm asking you to do, that they can probably do.

Conclusion

I recently used this, actually, in a way, for a team that we created, that we're partnering with, where we needed to go and basically help a whole team, a whole sales team, understand what we do. And what I did is I took the last 10 sales transcripts that I had, so calls that I had with clients, and I threw the transcripts into Notebook.LM. What it did was perfect. It looked at all of the key positioning items that I keep repeating every time I'm in a sales call.

It detected all of the pushback I got, how I handled it, and it basically had a 15 minute objection handling podcast that came out that I could now share with an entire team to understand how I actually handle these in calls. And so extremely powerful stuff. Now that's the end of the presentation in terms of how I kind of run through these.