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AI Articles that help from MyCom

  • Save time and multiply your marketing creativity with ChatGPT

    Specialized artificial intelligence is taking the internet by storm, especially large language models such as ChatGPT. With a simple text prompt, these tools incorporate huge amounts of data to generate human-like responses to questions. Here are four ways to get you thinking about using this powerful tool. Just remember: It’s all in the prompt you give. The more specific you are, the better your results will be.

  • How to use artificial intelligence for your church: A MyCom screencast

    We've all heard about the explosion of artificial intelligence happening all over the internet. The main focus is on a large language model called ChatGPT.

    We're going to talk a little bit about how to use it, how to use it well and how to avoid the pitfalls that exist within it.

  • MyCom Podcast: Using AI in Ministry

    On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing podcast, Dan explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way churches engage with their congregations. This episode features Kenny Jahng, who discusses the different ways AI is already being used in our lives and how churches can experiment with these tools to enhance outreach efforts and support their ministries.

Helpful Tips from the Webinar

Chat GPT Prompt Format: I am doing [project description] I want you to [big task idea]. I am going to give you [data source]. I want you to give me [number] of [insights]. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Midjourney Prompt Format: [subject] [location/lighting] [emotion] [narrative] [camera} [aspect ratio] --ar 16:9

Links to all the platforms we discussed:

Chat GPT

DALL-E (part of chat GPT)

Otter.ai (transcription service 300 minutes free)

Descript (transcription and editing 1 hr./mo free)

Midjourney (image generator uses Discord)

Grammarly (advanced text proofing and revision)

Reclaim.ai (calendaring)

The Prompts We Used:

I am trying to come up with ideas for things to do at our fall festival.  I don’t want to repeat the things we have done in the past. I want you to help me brainstorm. I am going to give you a list of fall festival ideas we have used in the past.  I want you to give me 10 new ideas that don’t repeat basic concepts or methods from the ones we have done before.  I want you to make sure they are interesting and appropriate for children ages 7-12.  Do you understand?

I am looking for names for a program for my church.  The program is for older adults over sixty.  Each week, they go on a different local outing.  The goal of this program is to help them grow closer as friends and support each other in life and faith.  Can you give me ten ideas?  Maybe ones that play off our Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors slogan?

Can you give me suggestions for hymns from the United Methodist hymnal for Pentecost Sunday?

I want to create a custom GPT that will draw from a prayer document and suggest content when prompted from that prayer book. I don’t want this visible to anyone but me, and I don’t want it to draw from any content except for the content I upload.

I need you to create a logo for a ministry for older adults.  The logo should resonate with people who are over sixty and living in the Washington, DC, area. The ministry's name is

I am going to give you the text of an article I am working on.  I want you to give the text back to me and offer corrections to any misspellings in bold.  If there is a better way to phrase something, give that to me in brackets where it should appear in the text.

I want to advertise my fall festival to a specific demographic group.  I want you to help me create all the text for the Facebook ads for two different demographic groups.  The Event is happening on November 22 and will have horse rides, music by local bands, and an arts and crafts fair with offerings by local artists.  There will also be a range of food trucks.  I will give you one description of a demographic group, and I want you to create four headline options, a title, and two description options for this event that will resonate with those ads.  After you do that, I will give you the other demographic description, and you will generate the same marketing copy options.  Do you understand?

I need you to be a curriculum writer who has a progressive united methodist theological lens.  I have a piece of curriculum written from a different theological stream, and I need you to give me suggestions of how to tweak it so that it will align with our progressive united methodist theological perspective.  I want to upload a pdf, and then you give your suggestions here. Do you understand?

I have analytics data from my facebook account that I want you to help me use to create a list of new ideas for posts that will build on my success and avoid what didnt work from the older posts.  I want to puload the data and then have you generate 10 ideas based on what you learn from it.  Do you understand?

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