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AI Best Practice Content management Copilot Metadata Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Mastering Content Types in SharePoint Online

To build a great content management solution in SharePoint you should use Content Types. Simon Hudson and Mats Warnolf tell you how and why.

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AI Business Cloud Energy Hardware Sustainable Energy Technology

AI data centres and 3% of global electricity. Really?

I was recently asked, how can I evangelise NetZero & sustainability yet be happy to use AI (mostly Copilot) many times per day given that data centres use above 2% -3% of the world’s electricity? While asked in jest, it’s a valid question, so Copilot and I did the maths… Energy use per query A […]

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AI Content management Copilot Microsoft 365 Mobile apps

AI and Handwritten Notes

AI has become great at many things; it can even transform terrible handwriting into typewritten text. I share the journey of discovery from scrawl to near perfect transcription.

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AI Best Practice Business Process

Who Watches the Watchmen

There’s a need for Human In The Loop (HITL) when using AI Agents, but also consider the role of AIITL when people need supervision.

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AI Communication Content management Intranet Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office SharePoint UI and UX

Easy File Extension Formatting in SharePoint

This blog describes a method for separating ‘proper’ templates from ‘kind-of’ templates in SharePoint libraries, using the file extension and some nifty column formatting courtesy of Microsoft Copilot.

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AI Best Practice Communication Improvement Microsoft Office

Text to Text – Using AI to transform transcripts

Some individuals prefer video content for learning, while others find written text more efficient. This blog details a quest to convert a messy video transcript into readable text using AI tools. Various attempts with Copilot and ChatGPT are explored, highlighting the potential for AI to transform video and audio content into professional written material.

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AI Cognitive Services Technology Thoughts and Musings

Can AI do the right thing?

Are AIs sufficiently ethical? Definitely not, but not for the reasons you might think. The question is, what to do about it.

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AI Technology Thoughts and Musings

Did the AI ‘godfather’ quit?

Should we halt AI research. Apparently, Geoffrey Hinton thinks so and resigned from Google. But is that what he really did, said and believes? There’s always more under the headlines.

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AI

AI – Be afraid. Be slightly afraid

The next generation of AI is upon us. This has been accompanied be fear, hysteria and scary headlines. Should we be afraid of our AIs and what should we do next.

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AI Business Cloud Cognitive Services Remote Meetings Technology Thoughts and Musings

Future Thinking – Digitalisation

Short thoughts on what Digitialisation means at a personal and business level

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AI Cognitive Services Innovation Microsoft Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office

Transcribe: More talking, better words

Microsoft has just announced a new Transcription feature in Word. I tested it and found it was good

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AI Browsers Cognitive Services Computers and Internet Innovation UI and UX

More Human Digital Humans

Even better text to voice has quietly appeared. Try it, you might be able to give your eyes a rest.