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Michael MacLennan

Edinburgh
Michael MacLennan
AI in Crisis Comms: Help or Hindrance?

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AI in Crisis Comms: Help or Hindrance?

"The key is preparation. Use AI now to understand its capabilities and limitations. Build your prompts library when you're calm. Test on low-stakes issues. Because when a real crisis hits, you don't want to be experimenting – you want proven tools and workflows ready to deploy." - Amanda Coleman

04 Sep 2025
From Watson to Lovable: How Flipside's MD is Navigating the AI Revolution

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From Watson to Lovable: How Flipside's MD is Navigating the AI Revolution

Flipside's Barney Evison and his digital agency team have spent the past few years turning AI wonder into practical applications – and learning some hard truths along the way.

12 Aug 2025
Building Smarter Pitches and Smoother Approvals: How AI Can Fix PR Bottlenecks

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Building Smarter Pitches and Smoother Approvals: How AI Can Fix PR Bottlenecks

AI tools built, pitches perfected, approvals fast-tracked: discover how smarter workflows are transforming PR and comms right now.

30 Jul 2025
Speed-Building an AI 'Will My Boss Hate This?' Detector, Using Lovable

Comms AI App Building

Speed-Building an AI 'Will My Boss Hate This?' Detector, Using Lovable

The real revelation isn't the tool itself - it's that a comms professional with no coding experience can build something this functional in three hours. The barriers between "I wish this existed" and "I built this" are crumbling.

28 Jul 2025
Building the Perfect AI Prompt for Media Pitch Subject Lines

Comms Prompt Engineering

Building the Perfect AI Prompt for Media Pitch Subject Lines

Agonising over subject lines? Our AI prompt thinks like a journalist – asking the right questions and generating newsworthy subject lines without PR clichés.

24 Jul 2025
How Project Folders Supercharged My AI Comms Workflow (And How They’ll Transform Yours Too)

Comms AI Tool Reviews

How Project Folders Supercharged My AI Comms Workflow (And How They’ll Transform Yours Too)

How organised AI workspaces transformed my communications workflow (and why you should steal this approach).

21 Jul 2025
Building a LinkedIn content creator with Claude, giving Grammarly a reality check, and a (welcome) audit by ChatGPT’s Deep Research

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Building a LinkedIn content creator with Claude, giving Grammarly a reality check, and a (welcome) audit by ChatGPT’s Deep Research

In this edition, we dive headfirst into Claude's code-free Artefact app builder to see if we can build a proper LinkedIn content creation tool. Plus, a reality check on whether Grammarly's AI features actually help comms pros, and how ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature may save you hours of time.

08 Jul 2025
How good is Claude at building an AI Tool for LinkedIn Content Creation?

Comms AI App Building

How good is Claude at building an AI Tool for LinkedIn Content Creation?

I made the most of Claude’s latest app-building capabilities to create a tool that aims to offer several leading LinkedIn posting approaches as part of a structured, AI-powered workflow designed to save time and enhance engagement.

07 Jul 2025
Grammarly Review: Your Everywhere Comms AI Subeditor

Comms AI Tool Reviews

Grammarly Review: Your Everywhere Comms AI Subeditor

We tested Grammarly for 18 months across real client work: emails, proposals, newsletters. Is it the AI safety net every comms pro needs?

07 Jul 2025
We Tested ChatGPT's Deep Research Tool: Here's What Comms Professionals Need to Know

Comms Prompt Engineering

We Tested ChatGPT's Deep Research Tool: Here's What Comms Professionals Need to Know

We put ChatGPT's new Deep Research feature through its paces with a real comms challenge. The results? Not perfect, but more than strong enough to prove its worth in certain situations.

04 Jul 2025
Tool Testing: Our Review Methodology

Comms AI Tool Reviews

Tool Testing: Our Review Methodology

The communications world is drowning in AI tool recommendations. Most appear to be written by people who've never actually used them. Our approach is different. Testing Models Every tool gets tested on communications work – the type we have actually done in the past, or that we are currently

01 Jul 2025
Prompt Engineering: Our Production Standards

Comms Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering: Our Production Standards

Prompt engineering sounds sophisticated, but it's really just learning to ask AI systems better questions. Our approach focuses on what actually works for communications professionals. Real Scenarios, Real Constraints We produce and refine prompts on genuine communications tasks: press releases that need writing, crisis statements that need crafting,

01 Jul 2025
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