Selfie of me at the start of the day in an almost empty room that filled up shortly after I took the photo.
Today, I had the opportunity to present at the Texas Land Title Association (TLTA) event, Emerging Tech in Title. It was a special event for the 33 folks who registered, a pre-conference workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI). I would like to say I had a lot of fun prepping for this session, but there was so much wonderful content and skills to share, I’m afraid I overwhelmed myself with prep. I spent days and weeks over what to include, agonizing over everything. I set up a website (not included in this blog entry), and tons of support content.
Too much?
This was a great experience for me, but I always feel like I’m packing six hours of content into three hours. Actually, more like 16 hours of content into 3 hours.
I felt like, what one of my principal’s liked to say to my youthful embarassment, “a mosquito in a nudist colony…unsure of where to start.”
Ha ha.
But in the end, everything turned out great. I got some great feedback from participants throughout the day. Here are my session presentations, all created in Gamma, each endlessly revised:
- Beyond AI Myths and Hype
- Prompt Engineering
- AI in Office Operations and Strategic Planning
- Boost Productivity with AI
- Protect Your Prompts and Data
In addition to those presentations, I also had fun whipping a few DURING lunch in response to some of the participants:
- AI Tools Revolutionizing the Texas Land Title Industry
- Major Challenges and Solutions in Texas Land Title Industry 2024
This series of presentations marks my transition from relying on Canva (for which I abandoned Google Slides) to Gamma AI. I have to admit that making presentations with Gamma, mixing in elements of Napkin AI diagrams/designs, is so easy now.
Photo at the start of the day as the room started to fill up
Fast Changing
I read earlier in the day that there were over 1000 AI apps shared in just the last few weeks. For every new problem or old problem, people are crafting AI solutions. Who knows where all this will end up, but it’s certain that my hard work in prepping these presentations won’t mean they last forever. Rather, everything will have changed again all too soon.
That’s why I encourage you to start walking with AI in hand, and learn how to use what’s available now. Tomorrow, it will certainly be different but today’s experience will give you the background knowledge you need to learn the new AI faster.
