Gushing & Blushing: I've got big news. Whoah!

Oh, jeez! I'm blushing as I write this. But I have to kick this email off by telling you about the achievements of my first AI course . Because they're pretty massive!

The first is that on Friday it hit the massive milestone of attracting 100,000 students in under 6 months. This number blows me away. If you're one of the hundred thousand, thank you! You're awesome!

(Here's an awkward post I made about the achievement.)

Then, as if that wasn't enough, yesterday LinkedIn Learning announced that 'How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools ' is the most popular AI course on the platform (here's their article about it! ).

What??!!

Wow!

Just wow!

You could fry a couple of eggs on my burning cheeks.

So let me cough awkwardly and change the subject.

I'd like to share a simple little tutorial with you:

Create your own chatbot in under a minute

Actually, I've got it down to about 30 seconds for a pre-written prompt. Booom!

First of all, I've got to thank the brilliant Jason Gulya for sharing this Zapier feature on LinkedIn a few days ago. I didn't know this was possible. And now I'm hooked!

So to celebrate the embarrassing stuff above, I've created a chatbot to help you share my courses with others. It starts by asking you which of my courses you want to share and then asks you three questions about why you'd recommend the course. In response, you get:

• A post to share on LinkedIn
• A tweet to share on X (I can't get used to calling it that)
• An email to send to your colleagues
• And a beautiful poem to cut out and keep

Try out the chatbot here, to see how it works:

https://chat-app-2ebe92.zapier.app/

I have no idea if there's a usage cap on this. Or if it works in every country. Or anything else. But this is an experiment. So please tell me if you encounter any issues.

Now, do you want to be able to do something like this yourself? Of course you do!

So hold on tight! Here's a step by step guide created with the brilliant Scribe . (It took me five minutes to create this tutorial.)

Click on the image to get the full instructions.

If you create your own Zapier chatbot, let me know and send me a link.

And please keep spreading the word for the courses. It's a long way to the next milestone of 500,000 learners!

Join my next AI Unlocked workshop

I've just sorted a date for my next half-day AI Unlocked workshop. The details are:

17th October 2023 at 4pm UK / 11am ET / 8am PT

It's an updated and improved version (and people loved the last one before it was improved!) You can find out more about it here , along with a button to let my manager know you'd like to join.

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