experiment 7

In this experiment I thought I'd followup on a #ZNLive interview I did with ZN (see the full interview on linkedin). They are also producing a series of snippets, each shared separately, and as these are about a narrower set of topics I'm going to try and base this experiment on Snippet 1.

Files

• a 2m10 chat on LinkedIn on integrating internal and external communication strategies, knowledge management and more.
• Collection 7:
  • URL: All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged internal communications & communications, Anytime (9 resources)
  • C-7-allnotes.
• prompts:
  • rss to clean notes prompt
  • prompt 2c - themes and resources visualised
  • prompt 2d - themes and resources visualised
• response:
  • full conversation with chatgpt: c-7-allnotes-conversation
  • first extract: c-7-allnotes-themes-and-posts
• analysis: As in previous experiments, I'm still a little ambivalent. It's not hard to imagine continuing the conversation with ChatGPT using a combination of knowledge visualisations and text to burrow further into a subject, but so far I would not have said that I am gaining many new insights.

Process

Getting started

This interview snippet focused on how a properly integrated comms strategy inevitably repositions the comms team from being a "peripheral megaphone" for the organisation to an interface between it and rest of world, and thus strategically central to the organisation's actual business.

From my notes as I listened to the segment:

• listening to the audience (needed for engagement anyway)
• but also bringing knowledge inside
  • hence KM + internal comms
  • ensure org knows what it knows
    • essential for external comms,
    • but everyone else benefits too
  • involves comms team in core business
• most difficult challenge organisational, not technological
• True communications STRATEGY
  • nor a separate strategy
  • comms as part of the org's strategy: business intelligence, internal KM & comms, external comms

First visualisation

So I created a collection - All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged internal communications & communications, Anytime , 9 resources at the time - to create C-7-allnotes.

I then:

• launched chatgpt, creating c-7-allnotes-conversation
• used rss to clean notes prompt
• applied prompt 2c - themes and resources visualised and prompt 2d - themes and resources visualised to visualise the themes covered by this collection:

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The conversation then continued as I used the visualisation to query ChatGPT's analysis . It agreed with every point I made, of course, (the true problem with LLMs is they don't even try to argue their corner) giving me:

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Complementing visualisations with texts

I then asked it: "Please now reproduce your list of themes and related articles provided earlier, but with the following changes: reflect the connections in the above visualisation; and link the titles of the resources to their URLs, provided in the RSS feed."

This gave me something interesting enough to consider publishing separately. However the transfer of this part of the conversation from ChatGPT via a markdown file in my vault through to GitHub and onto the web messed up the list a bit. As this problem is outside of ChatGPT the only way to fix it was to copy it below and edit it in my vault, which at least gave me an opportunity to examine it a little more closely.

The result is: c-7-allnotes-themes-and-posts.