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Remote Work Tools

Loom

Author: Emir Olgun

Date: 19 August 2023

Introduction

In an era where remote work and decentralized operations have become the norm, the tools we use to communicate and collaborate play a pivotal role in determining our efficiency and effectiveness. One such tool that has gained our attention in is Loom. Designed to bridge the gap between face-to-face interactions and text-based communication, Loom offers a unique approach to sharing information and ideas. But what exactly is Loom, and how can DAOs leverage its capabilities?

What Does It Do?

Loom is a video messaging tool that allows users to capture and share videos of themselves, their screens, or a combination of both. Unlike traditional video conferencing tools where participants need to be present simultaneously, Loom records videos that can be watched anytime, anywhere. This asynchronous communication method ensures that messages can be conveyed clearly and personally, without the constraints of scheduling or time zones.

Key features of Loom include:

Instant Recording: With just a few clicks, users can start recording their video messages.
Easy Sharing: Once recorded, videos can be shared via a link, making it easy to embed them in emails, documents, or chat platforms.
Interactive Features: Viewers can respond to videos with comments or reactions, fostering two-way communication.
Security: Videos can be password protected, ensuring that only the intended recipients can view them.

How To Use Loom?

Loom can be used as a Chrome extension, Desktop App, iOS, and Android Apps. You can create a workspace and invite people to your workspace. Recording a video is very easy, it has very intuitive interface to guide you how to do it and how to edit your video.

Loom automatically creates transcripts of your videos and it is not bad. It got what I said almost correctly, the only mistake it did was, I said "page I'm browsing" and it understood "page unbrowsing". You can also edit your transcripts after you record your videos.

Loom allows sharing the video you recorded with a lot of options.

You can edit privacy settings of your video from who can access it to setting a password to access your video.

Your videos can be shared on various social platforms.

You can embed your video easily and choose how it will look and starting time of the video.

Comments

People can comment and react to your videos. The comments can be text or video. The reactions can be Emojis. All comments and reactions can be sent to a specific moment of a video.

How Can DAOs Use Loom?

DAOs, with their decentralized structures and global memberships, can particularly benefit from Loom's features:

Onboarding New Members: Joining a DAO can be overwhelming. Using Loom, existing members can create personalized welcome videos, explaining the DAO's mission, governance structure, and ongoing projects. This personal touch can make newcomers feel more connected and informed.
Proposal Explanations: Instead of relying solely on written proposals, DAO members can use Loom to explain their ideas visually and verbally, ensuring that nuances and motivations are clearly conveyed. Since Loom also creates a transcript, these videos will also have written copies.
Project Updates: Team leads or project managers can share regular video updates about their progress, challenges, and needs. This can be especially useful for complex projects where visual demonstrations or walkthroughs are beneficial.
Skill Sharing: DAOs often have members with diverse skill sets. Loom can be used to create mini-tutorials or workshops, allowing members to share their expertise with the community.
Meeting Recaps: Not everyone can attend every DAO meeting due to time zone differences or other commitments. Loom can be used to record meeting summaries or key discussions, ensuring that all members, regardless of their attendance, stay informed.
Cultural Building: In the absence of physical interactions, building a cohesive culture in a DAO can be challenging. Loom videos, with their personal touch, can help in sharing stories, celebrating achievements, and fostering a sense of community.

Conclusion

In the dynamic world of DAOs, where decentralization meets collaboration, tools like Loom are not just beneficial, they're transformative. Loom's ability to humanize digital communication, break down barriers of time and geography, and foster genuine connections makes it an invaluable asset for DAOs. As these organizations continue to evolve and shape the future of work and governance, it's tools like Loom that will ensure that the essence of community and collaboration remains at their core.

Loomio

Introduction

In the vast landscape of digital tools designed to foster collaboration and decision-making, Loomio stands out as a very useful tool for decentralized groups. As DAOs rise in prominence, navigating the intricacies of collective decision-making becomes paramount. Loomio, with its unique blend of discussion forums and voting mechanisms, offers a solution tailored for such challenges. But what makes Loomio special, and how can DAOs harness its potential?

What Does It Do?

Loomio is an online platform designed to facilitate group decision-making. It combines the elements of discussion and consensus-building in a structured environment, ensuring that every voice is heard and decisions are made collaboratively.

Key features of Loomio include:

Discussion Threads: Loomio allows members to start discussions on specific topics, ensuring that conversations remain focused and organized.
Proposal Mechanism: Within discussions, members can put forward formal proposals. These proposals can be voted on, with various voting options available, from simple yes/no votes to more nuanced scales.
Real-time Updates: Members receive notifications about new discussions, comments, and proposal outcomes, ensuring they remain engaged and informed.
Time-bound Decisions: Proposals can have deadlines, ensuring timely decision-making.
Privacy and Security: Loomio offers private groups, ensuring that sensitive discussions remain confidential.

How To Use Loomio?

When you open the webpage of Loomio, there is a free demo teaching you how to use Loomio. The free demo has an organization called Oatmilk Co-op Loomio Demo.

Loomio threads work just like the social media posts we all are familiar with.

Here you can have discussions, tag people, insert links, and use markdown to structure your messages.

One of the most useful features for DAOs is the polls on Loomio. You can create polls where you can preset the possible choices and a deadline. Voters can also attach messages to their votes.

How Can a DAO Use Loomio?

Given the decentralized and often global nature of DAOs, Loomio's features align seamlessly with their operational needs:

Governance Proposals: DAOs can use Loomio to put forward and discuss governance changes, from modifying bylaws to electing new leadership roles. The structured discussion and voting mechanism ensures transparency and member participation. The votes on Loomio can be conducted before an actual on-chain vote. This will prevent poorly prepared proposals from having financial burden on the members of the DAO.
Project Feedback: Before finalizing projects or initiatives, DAOs can use Loomio to gather feedback. This collaborative approach ensures that projects are refined and have broad support.
Conflict Resolution: In any organization, conflicts or disagreements can arise. Loomio provides a platform for structured discussions around contentious issues, ensuring that resolutions are reached collaboratively.
Budgeting and Financial Decisions: DAOs can use Loomio to propose and vote on budget allocations, funding for projects, or other financial decisions. The platform ensures that such crucial decisions are made with broad consensus.
Strategic Planning: Loomio can be used for brainstorming and strategizing the future direction of the DAO. Members can propose ideas, discuss potential strategies, and vote on the way forward.
Membership and Onboarding: DAOs can use Loomio to discuss and decide on new member applications, ensuring that the onboarding process is transparent and collective.
Integration with Other Tools: Loomio can be integrated with other communication tools, ensuring that discussions and decisions are accessible to members across various platforms.

Conclusion

Loomio, in essence, is more than just a decision-making tool—it's a testament to the power of collective intelligence and collaboration. For DAOs, which inherently challenge traditional hierarchical structures and champion decentralized operations, Loomio offers a platform that mirrors their ethos. It ensures that every voice is valued, every decision is made collaboratively, and the spirit of decentralization is upheld in every facet of the organization's operations. As DAOs continue to redefine the boundaries of collaboration and governance, tools like Loomio will be at the forefront, empowering communities and driving the vision of a more inclusive and democratic digital future.

Littlefish Tools of Work

Here's a list of the tools we use at littlefish Foundation. As of September 12th 2022, this is not a comprehensive list of all tools but an MVP document to guide littlefish contributors.

If you're in need of guidance on any of these or other tools we use at littlefish, make a request using this form: https://forms.gle/h4WapuLSNg6aZVM88

Discord

[[Improving Discord]] [[Guide - Managing Discord Overwhelm]] [[Guide - littlefish Discord Notifications]]

Dework

We run all our community tasks through Dework. https://app.dework.xyz/littlefish-foundatio

Markdown

Writing Guidance

[[How To - Writing for the Vault]]

Cheat Sheet

https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ Use this to learn and advance your markdown. It's easy once you get a grip, we promise.

Collaborative Markdown with HackMD

https://hackmd.io/ We use this tool to collaborate on Markdown documents before publishing on Obsidian. Think of it as Google Doc for MD files.

Online Calls

[[Zoom Best Practices]]

Obsidian

Once you get a good grip on Markdown and want to jump into Obsidian, these docs will help you out.

[[How To Use Obsidian at the Littlefish Foundation]] [[Obsidian-Github Integration in Windows]]

Scheduling

Bot of these can integrate with your google calendar and make scheduling much easier. Group Meetings: [[How to Use lettucemeet]] One-on-ones: https://calendly.com/

Miro

AI Art

DAll-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

Otter AI: Automated Scribe

Alternative Video Chat

If you're bored of Google Meets and Zoom Calls, use this for more interactive video calls: https://www.spatial.chat/

It's free up to 5 users.

How To Use Obsidian at the Littlefish Foundation

Introduction

Obsidian is a capable note-taking program and markdown file reader. The program's functionality enables you to quickly take notes and manage, edit, and publish them. Instead of keeping your records disorganized, you can use obsidian to build your own wiki. Obsidian is an excellent tool for assisting in the execution of your personal and organizational matters.

Why DAOs Should Use Obsidian

DAOs often need to publish lots of different documentation such as onboarding documents, whitepapers, and proposals. Obsidian is a great tool to publish documents and organize them however they want. Obsidian is a very powerful tool that has a learning curve but has very useful features and integrations. We in Littlefish use Obsidian to publish our whitepaper, projects, and documents and use GitHub to collaboratively work on Obsidian.

1. Markdown basics

Using a plain-text editor, markdown is a simple markup language for styling text. Might be confusing for people who haven't used it before. For this reason, we will share resources that will help beginners in this section.

Obsidian Markdown Cheat Sheet

The link below contains a list of all the markdowns that Obsidian supports.

https://www.markdownguide.org/tools/obsidian/

The page explaining the use of the markdown you need to utilize will open when you click on it.

It shows its usage in obsidian on the left and its html equivalent next to it.

The equivalent you will acquire on obsidian is given in the rendered output section.

For instance, suppose you type " # Heading," heading 1 style is used to format your content.

2. Obsidian Control Basics

Obsidian can be used more efficiently in certain key combinations, just as many other tools. You can access key combinations for Obsidian with the link we shared below.

https://keycombiner.com/collections/obsidian/

From the right section, you can access the combinations according to your intended use.

3. GitHub + Obsidian Setup

In this section we will show you how to configure Obsidian and GitHub for Littlefish foundation.

First, go to the Littlefish foundation GitHub page with the link below.

https://github.com/littlefish-foundation/the-vault

Secondly, you will need to create your own fork. “ A fork is a copy of a repository. Forking a repository allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project."

Give your repository an unique name and click Create fork.

Now your cloned repository is ready to run your work.

You can find more information about GitHub configuration on the GitHub for beginners page. In order for Obsidian and GitHub to work together, you need to complete the settings given on the GitHub for beginners page.

To setup Obsidian

First, we install the Obsidian with the link below.

https://obsidian.md/download

After that, all you have to do is clone the fork repository on your computer and introduce this file to Obsidian.

Select the path of your cloned repository.

Obsidian is ready to use.

4. Pushing and Requesting a Pull

We will show you two different methods for pushing your cloned repository.

Obsidian GUI method ( user friendly )
GitHub terminal method ( advanced user )

Obsidian GUI for Pushing

For example, we created a new file and wrote the necessary notes in it.

You can push it to your GitHub repository with the steps below.

Press ctrl+p to open command tool and search for Open source control view.

Add a suitable title next to the date part, press the stage all button then press commit button.

Now your document is ready to push. Now all you need to do is press the push button

GitHub terminal method

You do not have to push the changes you have made with Obsidian, you can also push the changes you have made on Obsidian with the traditional way of adding a file to a repository using the command line.

Change directory to your cloned repository.
Stage the file with the below command

$ git add .

commit the file you have staged in your local repository

$ git commit -m "TEST PUSH"

Push the changes to GitHub

$ git push

If you have done the previous steps successfully, the last change you made will appear at the top of your fork page.

5. How to Request a Pull ?

To create a pull request, first move to your fork and click the Pull request button from the menu.

Then click create a pull request

Add a title and comment to your request and click Create pull request.

Your pull request and the commits you made on it will look like the following.

Last but not least, you can check other pull requests made on the main repository by other users, in the main repository Pull requests page.

How To - Writing for the Vault

#give-guidance-to-the-reader
#no-unfinished-work-no-drafts
#dont-do-big-blocks-of-writing.-nobody-will-read-them.
#if-your-doc-is-long-add-headers-and-link-to-them-at-the-beginning-of-the-doc
#be-careful-with-writing-between-texts

Give Guidance to the Reader

The readers job is to spend the MINIMUM amount of time reading your doc. They will quit if they don't find what they need in a few seconds.

Your first responsibility as the writer is to signal to them that this doc will get them the knowledge they need, and in the minimum amount of time.

The doc should give the MAXIMUM amount of value to the reader for the MINIMUM time possible..

Some ways to give guidance

The beginning of the document is where you give guidance. Some things you can state are:

The purpose of the doc
What problem does X solve?
Why is this important?
Who has this problem
Outcomes/learnings after reading the doc

KEEP IT SIMPLE, READABLE

Example: Why do we need guidance?

Yes, but what is Multi server chat??

Example: Good Guidance

The explainer here tells you why you need Otter.AI, what problem it solves, and how it solves it.

No Unfinished Work/No Drafts

If you've made a merge/pull request, the doc should be ready to publish. No drafts, no unfinished sentences, no placeholders.

You can update the doc in the future to add more things. Yet it should look and feel complete.

What can we improve?

Don't do big blocks of writing. nobody will read them.

Use BOLD to draw attention, drop spaces between lines to increase readability, use Headers to chunk up paragraphs, and rewrite sentences to become clearer, simpler.

If your doc is long, add Headers and Link to them at the beginning of the doc

Use "#" to add headers. Headers will separate the topics and make the doc more readable

At the top of the page, add links to each of your headers, so users can easily jump to what they need.

You can add header links like this: [[littlefish - Vault Guidance#Don't do big blocks of writing nobody will read them]]

Be careful with writing between texts

Such texts won't be seen, won't be read, won't be known by the user.

Cloning and Forking “The Vault” Repository

Cloning and Forking "The Vault" Repository into your computer

Introduction

Before we dive into the steps you need to follow in order to clone or fork “the-vault” repository allow me to explain very briefly what is the difference between cloning and forking a repository.

If you already know the difference you may safely skip this part!

The short answer is: forking the repository means that you create an independent copy of the repository, on the other hand cloning will create a linked copy.

The long answer: when the git repository is cloned, the original repository remains shared between all the developers who have contributed and will continue to update as other developers push new changes and pull new updates. For example, if you cloned a repository yesterday and today a developer changes or adds something into this repository, by executing the command “git pull” in your terminal, the code in your computer will be updated as well.

In contrast, when the git repository is forked, it will create a completely new copy of the original repository. And after that point the forked repository will completely be under your control. When some other developer updates or changes something in the original repository, your repo will remain unaffected. Same thing if you change something that will be obvious only to you, unless you give access.

In conclusion cloning is used by active developers who constantly contribute to the project and have full access, and forking is used by developers who don’t have access to update the original repository but want to suggest some change or update. Or you fork the repo and develop it yourself as you see fit from that time on, as a hobby maybe or for whatever reason.

Cloning

To clone “The Vault” repository into your computer first visit the following URL:
The next steps are illustrated in the image below. (This illustrates the cloning of the repository using HTTPS which is the most popular and easy way.)
Open the terminal on your mac (or cmd in windows machines). The first thing you need to do in this instance is to change the directory that you want the repository to be saved. In order to achieve this, first check your current directory. In mac you can do this by typing “ls” on the terminal (in windows you can perform the same command by typing “dir”). This command will show all the directories listed under your current directory. Check the image:
That being said, let’s say that I want to save the repository on a folder named “The Vault” that I have previously created on my desktop. For this I type “cd desktop/The Vault ”. Check the image:
On the next step you need to type “git clone + the URL you copied from step 2” (plus should not be typed). And then press Return for mac or Enter for Windows.

Cloning Repo Using SSH Method

To be able to clone the repository using SSH method first you need to generate an SSH key in your computer.

For Mac Open the terninal (command + space, type terminal, press return) and type the following command ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t rsa and press return again.
For Windows Open CMD (Press Windows+R to open “Run” box. Type “cmd” and then click “OK” to open a regular Command Prompt. Type “cmd” and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open an administrator Command Prompt.) and type the following command ssh-keygen. All the remaining steps are the same.
Write After pressing return, you will see a message like this Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/*username*/.ssh/id_rsa): press return again. If it says that it already exist, do you want to overwrite, type y and press return.
It will ask you to give the ssh key a password Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): you can leave it empty or give it a password and verify on the next step.
Now go to the directory where it is saved by typing: cd *username* and after that type cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub, the last command will show the contents of the file .ssh/id_rsa.pub, which is something like: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQDhQhUhRpcze4xroC+zNmbQbl2phqVWhOFxnvxapPOKbWCnPIk/5sHsJLT4ZH7K75Mj7k1aj8ijnSGl6xKOkIPM995ANxuAalUbZkXL... Copy this code.
Give your key a title, and in the key part paste the ssh key that you copied from terminal earlier. Click on Add Key and you are all set.
Same as in the step 2 in the part above, select SSH instead of HTTPS and copy the content. Go back to the terminal and type the following command git clone git@github.com:*username*/the-vault.git

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY CLONED THE REPOSITORY ON YOU COMPUTER.

Forking

The next steps are illustrated in the image below.

Now at this point it means that you have successfully created a copy of the original repository in your github profile. However, to be able to make changes from in this newly forked repository you need to Clone it following the same steps described on the cloning process above.

Creating a Branch only for You

Navigate to the directory where the cloned repository is located by using "cd" command.
Create a new branch by using the command git branch given-name change given-name with whatever name you want to give to your branch.
Check it out by typing git checkout given-name.

Making Changes and Pushing them to Github

Now that you have created the branch, go ahead and open the repository on your favorite source-code editor (vscode for example) and add whatever information that you want to contribute. After you are done, save the changes and go back to the terminal and follow the steps illustrated in the image below:

Note: In case you get an authentication error after command #3.

Don worry nothing has been lost. You can fix it in a few steps. First if you know your git user name and email you may skip the first step.

Set username and email by entering the following commands :
git config --global user.name "Your_username" press enter
git config --global user.email "Your_Primary_Email_in_Github"

Type the following command to set your authentication credential to the git Remote URI:
git remote set-url origin https://username@github.com/username/the-vault.git
Now go ahead and type the third command from the image above again:
git push --set-upstream origin dev-link-forge

Making a Pull Request

Now you are just a few clicks away from proposing your changes to the owner of the original repository.

Go to "the-vault" repository in your Github profile. What you will see should look something like the image below.
Go on and click on the "Compare & Pull request". The next page would be:
Click on the "Create pull request" button. And you are done. Congratulations !

Github Desktop

After downloading and installing, you need to authenticate it with your Github account. Open preferences, click on sign in. This will redirect you to your Github account from your default browser.

Assuming that you have forked the repository in your github account (the first two steps of the forking section), you now need to clone it in your computer.

To achieve this first you need to go to file from the menu bar and from there click on Clone Repository.... This command will open a modal similar to the one below, which will show all the repositories found in your github profile.

From here select the vault (same as the illustration), choose a local path (where do you want this repository to be downloaded), and finally click on clone button.

This indicates that the repository is being downloaded.

When this process is done you are set. Go on and open the repository from vscode, and make some changes. Than return to github desktop which will recognize all changes automatically. Look the image below:

As for the next step, in the bottom left corner write a short summary of your actions and click commit to main.

Now that you have committed your changes, you need to push them online. Look at the image below:

Click on Push Origin and you are done. The next step is to create a pull request from your github profile. Described on the previous section.

A Guide to Using the Multi-Server Chat Bot

Introduction

In the vast ecosystem of Discord, fostering meaningful communication between different servers remains a challenge. Enter the Multi-Server Chat Bot—a tool designed to seamlessly link channels across servers, paving the way for enhanced collaboration.

At its core, the Multi-Server Chat Bot's function is straightforward: it links specific channels from different servers, allowing messages sent in one channel to appear in its counterparts on other servers. But the implications of this simple function are profound. By using the Multi-Server Chat Bot, communities can:

Run Co-Projects: By bridging communication gaps, communities can collaborate on joint initiatives, pooling resources and expertise.
Grow Bonds Between Communities: Regular interactions foster understanding, and strengthen the ties between communities.
Simplicity in Setup: No need for complex configurations. The bot is designed for a hassle-free setup experience.

Setting Up Multi Server Chat

Here's a step-by-step guide:

1- Invite the Bot: You can invite the bot to your server from this link. You can also access the bots support Discord server from this link.

2- Initiate the Setup: Once the bot is part of your server, use the ,,h command. This will bring up the setup screen. Simply click on 'Setup' to proceed.

3- Create the Multi Chat Category: After this bot prompts you to screen shown below. In here you have to press 'Create Multi Chat Category'.

4- Channel Creation: A new category named 'Multichat' will appear on your server. Under this category, you can create specific channels. Remember to choose unique names to avoid overlaps with commonly used names like 'general' or 'gaming'.

5- Connect Other Servers: To link channels across servers, replicate the above steps in any other server you wish to connect. Ensure that the channel names are consistent to establish the connection. When you use the same channel name, those channels will be connected to each other from each server.

Best Practices

Unique Channel Naming: To ensure seamless communication, opt for specific channel names that clearly represent the purpose or theme of the channel.
Foster Healthy Communication: Encourage members to engage positively and constructively, ensuring that the linked channels remain conducive for collaboration.

Links Bot's main page on top.gg

Multi-server chat Support community

How to use ComBot

It is with a sense of immense excitement that I’m able to write about this revolutionary Discord Bot known as ComBot. We all know how daunting it can be to manage and moderate a community of hundreds and thousands of people. In recent years, we’ve witnessed a massive surge of interest for Discord Bots. In this article, we’ll get a clearer insight into one of the novel Discord Bots in the world.

As you read the paragraphs below, we will explain what problems this tool solves, why DAOs have that problem, and whether they recommend using it..

What Is ComBot?

ComBot is one of the worlds most advanced community management tools for Discord. Some of the amazing features of this tool include, but not limited to analytics, moderation, spam protection, triggers, levels & XP system, report system, and reputation system.

What problems The Tool Solves?

Here are the reasons why DAOs need this too

Unlike other community management services out there, ComBot is no different! Should in case you don’t know, ComBot is one of the most actively used Discord community management services.

With ComBot, you’d never miss anything noteworthy. More so, the analytics dashboard allows Discord community managers and administrators to easily learn more about how users are interacting with their groups, and insights that revolve around their channel.
People tend to take advantage of everything. That being said, community managers and administrators can sleep safe while Combot protects their group from advertisements, spam, and excessive flooding. This tool can automatically warn violators and also restrict new users according to the Discord channel policies.
The aim of Combot is to ensure that its users enjoy a handful of moderation services whilst enabling them to focus entirely on your business. Discord channel administrators can leverage the administrative commands to execute actions seamlessly; The admittance of ComBot into Discord will bring sanity to your channels, thereby allowing your community members to report bad messages or content to group administrators.

How to Use

1- You can invite the bot to your server from . You can also see the bot's support page from

2- After adding the bot you can use the command /create and give a specific name to the connection. This will create the connection for you. This connection name should be unique and maximum 16 characters with only alpha-numerical ones.

3- After creating the connection you have to select it by /select connection-name

4- Now that you have created and selected the connection you can add a channel to this connection. For this you have to use /connect command. When you write this command it will prompt you to choose a channel from your server. This will connect your channel to the connection.

You can connect to this channel from any other server simply by repeating the steps above except the second one. Any channel you connect to the same connection will send the messages to each other.

Why DAOs Encounter These Problems?

I’ve seen DAO communities where stalkers come to dump pornographic images and also try to advertise or spam other members of the community. A typical example of a DAO that experienced this act is DIA DAO — an open-source, cross-chain oracle platform for Web3 and, also providing customizable and transparent data feeds for smart contracts.

DAOs encounter this problem probably because they still rely on human beings to handle the moderating side of things; truth be told, community managers or administrators can not deliver like these bots — the bots are always online and active to kick against indiscipline while the human moderators can’t be available round the clock to check all the activities in their Discord.

Why Is This Tool Important For DAOs

Since ComBot came into existence, it has piqued the interest of many people, especially community managers and administrators across different channels like Discord. Different organizations, especially decentralized ones use this tool in their Discord; this tool is recommended by DAOs because it allows them to:

DAOs can use comBot to always plan ahead using scheduled and recurring announcements; it also allows for the addition of automatic answers to frequently asked questions in the community, and to also assign reputation points to DAO members and more!
Inactivity in a group is a red flag and it can cause members to leave; I could recall a while back, I left quite a number of discord channels because it almost seems as if nothing is happening there; ComBot can help DAOs to transform their community from being disinterested into a lively community with greater expand opportunities to constantly engage existing participants and draw in new ones.

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Helper.gg - How to

It is a subsidiary of "Parent.gg" project.

Panel FQDN = https://panel.parent.gg/

What is it?

Helper.gg is a multifaceted, highly advanced Discord integration: designed to facilitate communication between support teams and their clients through the use of a ticket system. Of course, there are several bots out on the market that operate on the same premise, but every system has its share of flaws

Ticket Tool is a Discord bot that lets users raise tickets on issues they are facing on your Discord server. Often time, users might face some challenges while trying to interact with your server. Helper.gg was created for a purpose, it helps community members to easily ask questions and queries that they might have in one channel, Instead of discussing them across the server. Significantly, this bot was built to hide ticket away from every other member in the channel, this makes things more structured on the server.

Helper.gg is basically a secretary for your discord server. Nonetheless, this secretary does its job by helper members find the right direction whenever they encounter any problem on Discord. A bot like helper.gg is extremely useful for large community servers where their moderators would often encounter technical difficulties. DAOs need a bot like this to help them create support tickets for the right parties. Helper.gg streamlines communication of a team with other teams and end-users. Developers of the bot boldly stated that they created this to address "flaws and shortcomings" of other bots are in the market.

Administration

Panel

Staff accounts authorized through the panel (https://panel.parent.gg/) can alter Support, Management, Billing, Purchasing, Sales etc.
After authorizing Helper.gg on your discord, it automatically pulls roles from your guild;

You can see created tickets through the panel and close them using the "Actions" menu;

Discord

Free members can have 3 staff roles (interchangeable on the panel) and Premium members can have 20 staff roles. Below are the permission table of Discord Support Roles that you can assign to support team members;

Features

Free of Charge

One advantage of Helper.gg is that it provides "zero-setup" feature on Discord's end. But you still need to configure the panel to suit your needs.
It is compatible with "Discord Roles" when dealing with tickets, providing features like;
- Rename
- Add
- Remove
- Transcript
- Translate etc.
You can politely ask users in the guild to stop spamming. (Miscellaneous Messages > Please Stop Spamming)
You can set a goodbye/farewell message which Helper.gg will post in the ticket indicating that the user created this ticket has left the guild. (Automation Settings > Message on User Leave)
- This is especially good for pinpointing unsatisfied end-users and improve your customer relations/support.
You can use "Ticket Tags" to categorize the tickets you receive for a cleaner environment.

Premium

There's an option to automatically remove tickets if the user, who created the ticket, leaves your guild under "Automation Settings > Close Tickets When User Leaves". This might be handy for you to get rid of piling tickets.
You can set a timeout for a ticket to automatically close unless there's a response in predefined hours. (Automation Settings > Auto Close Tickets After No Reponse* (Hours)) (*Yes, there's a typo in the panel)
There's an auto-delete feature for messages in seconds, requiring auto-close to be enabled.
You can also change color of your messages with HEX codes (e.g. FFFFFF)
You can limit special characters in user messages except '-' if you want to.
You can prevent users from creating spam tickets.
- Mechanism here is not explicitly defined
Bot can tell how much time in seconds until the server is banned due to spamming
You can gather transcripts of the closed support ticket through email, Discord server or DM for benchmarking purposes.

Usage

Commands

-ticket "Reason" > This creates a new channel with "ticket-(numberoftheticket)".
-rename > renames the automated "ticket-#" convention easily.
-add @user or role" > Allows you to add user(s)/role(s) that you wish to the ticket.
-remove @user or role" > Removes user(s)/role(s) from the ticket.
-status {id} or "category" > Moves ticket to predefined ID's and categories.
-reason {reason} > Adds reason to the ticket if it's not already present.
-translate {language} @user > Automatically translates the ticket to your language and reply to user's language. This is a quite useful one
-claim/unclaim > Staffs with "Claim Tickets" permission use this command to claim the ticket, vice versa.
-close (Reason) > Obviously, closes the ticket. You can optionally ask for user confirmation, too.
-sclose > Closes the ticket and removes everyone from the ticket. Good for archiving important knowledgebase.
-help > Displays the help menu as below

For more detailed information regarding commands; https://docs.parent.gg/commands/

Known Issues

Almost every time you connect to the panel, it asks you for authorization, which is quite annoying.

Why DAOs Need Helper.gg

Community Management and Moderation: It is clear that Discord servers usually have rules that users must adhere to. DAOs need a bot like Helper.gg to enable their members raise tickets when other users violates these rules. To make things more organized, the bot can help DAOs to categorize tickets based on the type of issues, For example, inappropriate content, abuse, and more. DAOs need this bot since it helps their team to address these issues in an effective way.
Technical Assistance: Helper.gg is a useful bot that can help DAOs that offer special services to customers (e.g, it could training users to use their learning platform or voting system, whatever the case might be), their users might encounter technical problems along the way. This bot will help DAO team members to handle those technical issues more effectively.

Why is Helper.gg important for DAOs

For instance, you visit a website and it’s taking forever to load, you’d probably hit the back button or go to another website right? Your Discord members are like people who visit different web pages, they might leave your Discord and never come back. Having a bot like Helper.gg on our Discord will help enable our members to easily lay down complaints.
Helper.gg is important for DAOs since it serves as a medium through which community members can reach out to the admin regarding any channel that needs proper attention. Decentralized organizations need a bot like Helper.gg to help their team members receive feedback on how well their Discord is performing and if it’s serving the purpose.

Building Bridges Between Discord Communities

The Problem

In the decentralized world of DAOs, collaboration is not just a buzzword—it's a necessity. As these autonomous organizations strive to reshape industries and redefine community-driven initiatives, the power of inter-DAO collaboration becomes evident. Yet, a significant challenge looms large: how can DAO communities establish healthy communication channels with each other? For the purposes of this article, our focus is on Discord, the main communication hub for DAOs all around.

DAOs, by their very nature, are independent entities, each with its unique goals, culture, and ethos. When two or more DAOs come together, the potential is immense. They can pool resources, share knowledge, embark on joint projects, and collectively address challenges that might be insurmountable for a single entity.

However, the path to such synergy is fraught with communication barriers. Discord, while a popular platform for community engagement, isn't inherently structured to foster deep, meaningful interactions between different communities. The challenge isn't just about navigating a bustling platform; it's about creating spaces where multiple communities can come together, understand each other, and work towards shared objectives.

For us at littlefish Foundation, this wasn't a theoretical challenge—it was a lived experience. As we sought to foster active communication and co-projects with other communities like Social Design Academy, c4c, and others, we grappled with the intricacies of bridging diverse groups. The goal was clear: to move beyond superficial interactions and establish channels that encouraged genuine collaboration between our community and others.

What didn't work

Recognizing the limitations of Discord's in-built features, we embarked on a quest to find tools that could bridge the communication chasm.

We experimented with several tools that didn't quite get the job done.

- While promising, we found its setup process cumbersome and its bot connection unstable.
- Again, the bot connection left much to be desired.
- Zapier is an amazing tool, but a tool that has much more than what we need, and the requirement for full administrator access makes it difficult for other server admins to accept it.

The solutions that worked

These tools we found were the best fit to solve the challenge of inter server communication.

ComBot: A versatile tool designed to enhance inter-server communication.
See our article on Combot here:
Multi Server Chat: Tailored for communities like ours, seeking to foster meaningful interactions across servers. See our article on Multi Server Chat:

Noty.ai

Author: Creed

Date: 15th March 2023

Introduction

The era of note-taking during interviews or meetings is now a thing of the past; thankfully, there is a powerful game-changer that helps you do all that.

In this write-up, we'll elaborate on Noty.ai – an AI tool built to make your online meetings and interviews run smoothly without having to worry about jotting down important sections.

We've all been there! I could recall, early this year I was preparing to start my internship; I did a couple of interviews – sometimes, the hiring managers would tell me to write down some essential things. I'd be honest with you, taking notes with Zoom or Microsoft Team is just not so convenient.

What does Noty.ai do

Noty.ai was designed to help users automatically generate summaries by transcribing Google Meet, and Zoom calls. The most interesting part of this AI tool is that meeting transcription works in real-time – transcription happens without much delay. Equally, if you probably missed any caption or highlights, the meeting transcription feature automatically saves them even whether you're at the meeting or not.

Where Can Noty.ai Be Used

Noty.ai plays a vital role in our daily living, and I'd be sharing that with you. Here are some of the best use cases of this software.

Project Management: Will you agree that poor communication is a major problem faced by project managers – I can't begin to narrate my experience, though! Being in the same project group with an unserious team member just sucks. Noty.ai can be very useful when it comes to assigning tasks, defining roles and responsibilities, and sharing project milestones.
HR and Recruitment If you want to know how well an employee can fit into your organization, North.ai can help you. This software helps you keep track of your employees' needs and values their concerns. It also allows you to communicate with them on a personal level.
Useful For Sales And Discovery Noty.ai has an automatic superpower follow-up feature that allows you to structure your sales. The call transcription tool summaries conversation; this is one way to create a focused sales tactic to acquire more clients.

How To Use The Software

The first step to take is to install the Noty.ai Extension from Chrome Webstore.

After the installation is completed, you can now open Google Meet.
Thereafter, navigate to the Noty.ai Chrome Extension you downloaded earlier – sign up to unleash your superpowers.
To start transcribing a meeting, all you simply need to do as click the play button, you can also choose your meeting workspace. The play button allows you to pause and play with Noty.ai features. Additionally, Noty.ai allows for the integration of Google Calendar, which helps you keep tracks of upcoming meetings directly from your Noty.ai account.

And, if you wish to export your meeting transcriptions to Google Doc, the tool allows you to do just that. Not only that, users can also save any meeting information to their personal Google Drive folder with just one click.

How DAOs Can Use This Tool

When it comes to product management, DAOs can use Noty.ai to ease their workflow. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations can use Noty.ai for managing communication within their organization, team alignment, and juggling several duties is just not so convenient. A DAO can use this tool to develop a project roadmap, and strategic communication model for better managerial success.
Every team can make use of Noty.ai when they typically fall into any problem. At this point, clear communication and note-taking is essential for the team to have a clear sense of what where the issue arose from and where they should pay more attention to. When it comes to designing software products for a DAO, or you're attending meetings, you can use the live meeting transcription and automated notes to stay connected with your team – Noty.ai can help a DAO boost team's synergy for incredible results.
It can also help DAOs in their hiring process – whether a DAO is hiring a Copywriter to join their team, the tool will help you have a smooth conversation during the entire interview stages.

Pros/Advantages Of Noty.ai

The instant transcript of any meeting can be shared across different devices. Noty.ai assures better summary, and minutes of any meetings.
Noty.ai enhances better Team Management, and coordination for post-meeting updates.
Noty.ai has a perfect and easy to use interface that can easily be operated by anyone.

How It Would Be Useful For DAOs

One benefit of amity.ai is that it acts as a personal assistant to DAOs, we all know how challenging taking notes can be, the software can save a lot of time for DAOs.
Noty.ai can help DAOs in prioritizing tasks and managing time effectively to ensure they stay on top of workloads and attend to the most important tasks first, and helping them meet deadlines.
With Noty.ai, DAOs employees can take breaks and get enough rest – regular breaks are paramount for maintaining physical and mental well-being.
Noty.ai can help DAOs stay relevant and competitive in their field, and open up new opportunities for rapid growth and advancement.

Supported Platforms

Additional link

Twitter Profile:

Disclaimer: The content is for informational purposes only, may include the author's personal opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of littlefish Foundation.

Fireflies.ai

Author: Harsha Gullapalli

Date: March 6th, 2023

App Summary
Features
Pricing
Sample Use Cases
Rules for Use
Security
Additional Resources
Notes from the Author

1. App Summary

Fireflies.ai is an AI-powered app that can transcribe meetings from various video-conferencing apps, dialers, and audio files. It works by inviting its Notetaker to your meetings, capturing both video and audio, and generating transcripts in minutes. The app integrates with popular platforms like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams Webex, Ringcentral, Aircall, and more. Additionally, it allows users to analyze the transcripts, extract valuable insights, and create action items from the conversations.

2. Features

Meetings calendar: This includes adding meetings and permitting fireflies bot to the meetings.
Notes: Ability to summarize and share meeting notes with team members, collaborators, and stakeholders. Includes the ability to scan video files based on each sentence in the transcript.
Uploads: Summarize and create transcripts for any pre-recorded video/audio file.
Topic Tracker: Ability to create topics and keywords for fireflies to quickly search and highlight relevant parts of a conversation.
Analytics: Includes filtering conversations by speakers and key topics, detects sentiment, analyzes the number of questions asked, time spent on specific topics, filler words used, talk-to-listen ratio, etc.
Extensions: Templates to automate actions for a meeting based on specific use cases.
AskFred: Text-based AI chat similar to Chat-GPT that is specifically optimized for meetings.

3. Pricing

4. Sample Use Case

Personal Eg. Idea generation based on conversations, video journal insights, etc.

Organizational Eg. Meeting minutes, generative emails based on conversations, action items, recruiting interviews, skill/culture fit evaluation, etc.

Research Eg. Sentiment analysis, pain-point analysis, tone analysis, etc.

5. Rules for Use

6. Security

*SOC 2 is an auditing procedure that ensures your service providers securely manage your data to protect the interests of your organization and the privacy of its clients.

7. Additional Resources

Social Media:

8. Notes from the Author

The Fireflies app adds a lot of value to teams, individuals, and organizations by automating insight findings, action items, and self-evaluations from meetings.

Although it does come with a couple of downsides. Most features are behind a paywall subscription. This gives very little room for users to test the app and understand the vast benefits it provides. Security is another concern of mine even if the team behind Flireflies.ai claims to take it very seriously. I do feel uncomfortable when personal/organizational data is handled in a black box and the data creators/owners have very little control over it.

All in all, I highly suggest that readers try out Fireflies.ai while being conscious of sensitive data.

Collaborate with your co-workers: Decentralized organizations need Fireflies since it allows for the adding of comments, pins, and reactions to specific parts of their conversations. Not only that, this tool enables us to create soundbites and easily share the most memorable moments from our meetings. With Fireflies, DAOs can quickly share meeting notes to various collaboration apps like Slack, and Notion.
Analyze meetings using conversation-intelligence:

In addition, DAOs need this tool since it ease the tracking of a speaker talk time, sentiment, and other key metrics to coach teammates. Fireflies conversational-intelligence can help to measure performance and improve your sales (potential customers engage through an open decision-making process leads to business success), recruiting, and internal processes.

Why Is FireFlies Important For DAOs?

Find anything with AI-Powered Search:

Automate recruiting interviews:

Otter.ai

OTTER.AI

Welcome to yet another exciting article that discusses about one of the most novel AI (artificial intelligence) note taking software. Otter.AI isn't just one person's opinion – it's a smart application that works under the control of AI and machine learning.

Come to think of it, the era of taking notes in meetings now seems to be like a far-fetched idea! During the heart of the pandemic, the way we all worked looked different; organizational meetings have looked a bit different.

After a few short years, we’ve seen a drastic change in communication, which basically means that the way we collaborate and interact with people is going to be different - from conference rooms to round tables, Zoom and Google Hangouts really played an important role in that sphere.

Trying to take notes in meetings takes a lot of time and on the other hand, it causes to follow the meeting inefficiently. Otter.ai is a speech-to-text transcription and translation application using artificial intelligence and machine learning. You can use it to take notes at your meetings and interviews, capture your thoughts and ideas, and transcribe your existing recordings.

1. How Do I Start Using ?

Installation process is very simple, after signing up ( ) , It asks for syncing with the calendar.

It doesn't matter what is chosen in these sections, It can be adjusted later

continue with preferred app

2. Home Page ( Calendar and Meetings )

After a simple installation, the calendar appears on the homepage on the right.

Join the meetings on calendar with the Join meeting button, and also follow the live recordings and highlights made for the meetings with the Open conversation button.

3. Transcribe Meetings

It is very easy to transcribe previous meetings with the application. We have transcribed the Littlefish Foundation weekly meeting 17 for the testing purposes.

Select My Conversations from the left pane then click the Import button.

The whole meeting was transcribed in seconds.

4. Editing, Highlighting and More

Certain buttons will appear when hovered over the transcribed text.

Highlight Tool: Tool for highlighting text.

Comment Tool: Tool for commenting.

Action Item: Tool for assigning.

Photo Tool: Tool for adding photos.

Edit Tool: Tool for editing transcribed text.

All highlights, comments and assignments appear in the right pane.

5. Left Pane

Groups

Can create groups by inviting people. Can be used to share transcribed meetings or make live recordings with the members in the groups. Other members can follow live records and edit on it.

Direct Messages

Sharing the same features with the Groups. Can be used to start a quick recording with a specific person.

Live Recording with Direct Messages

When recording is started, it appears live to pair.

Folders

Create folders, save the meetings and live records in these categorized folders. In addition, there are options to share and export these files.

6. Live Transcribe

Live transcribe Zoom meetings with “ otter.ai “

Why is this useful?

What Is Otter.Ai and what does it do?

Otter.AI is one of the prominent technology company that hails from the United States. The company is known for developing “speech to text transcription applications” that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Otter.AI software is very useful when it comes to meeting transcribing; it also shows captions for live speakers, and generates written transcriptions of the speeches.

Otter was designed to pick up the voice in an audio feed, processes it through an AI algorithm, and starts stacking the words on the page, ready to read, highlight, and copy.

Why DAOs need this

Time-Saving: Community call and Town hall meetings are quite common in DAOs, one of the core reasons why DAOs need this tool is the fact that note taking is time consuming and too strenuous for humans to handle since these meetings are recurring - With Otter.AI, the need for hiring a human to take notes in meetings won’t be required anymore. Although, this AI tool might not be 100% accurate, but, it does the transcribing faster than a typical human being would do.
Otter.AI is one of the prominent tools fosters and pioneer the hosting of real-time meetings, events, AMA, webinars and live events. Another reason why DAOs need this tool is because it harnesses real-time transcript with meeting participants, it enables them to seamlessly collaborate by adding comments, highlighting text, and inserting images as well.

Why is it important for DAOs.

Enhanced Accessibility: One of the most important uses of transcription tools like Otter.AI is that the software improves accessibility for individuals are deaf. According to statistics, nearly 20% of the global population live with hearing loss; Otter is very important to DAOs because it’ll enable contributors who are hard of hearing to be able to follow along and keep abreast of what’s happening in the community. Otter will enable contributors that are deaf or hard of hearing to easily engage with content they might not otherwise been able to understand!
Another giving reasons why DAOs needs this too is because Otter.AI can easily be integrated with Zoom! Switching from one app to another will make will make things a bit tough. You might have meeting notes over here, action items over there — you might ens up losing your focus! The integration of Otter.AI with Zoom will bring a revolutionary impact to DAOs. The joining together of Otter.AI and Zoom will bring everything together in one place, helping you recapture your focus.

Integrating Otter with Zoom will instantly start transcribing any Zoom meetings that you're a host of. DAOs will also enjoy real-time transcription, and captions to all community members who are attending their meeting so they can follow along, directly within the their Zoom app.

Additional Links:

Twitter Profile:

Syncing Time Zone on Discord

Introduction

Whenever there is an online meeting with people from all over the world, there is almost someone who is missing the meeting due to the confusion on meeting's time. You can find this problem almost every international community. This is problem for admins as well. Here in Littlefish we are using a Discord bot called that is helping us to minimize this problem.

How Does It Work?

This bot is there whenever a time is mentioned in chat. When the bot sees a message with time it reacts to it with clock emoji. When you click that clock it sends you a message. For this process to work without an error the bot has to know about your time zone as well.

You can set your time zone very easily with simple commands. In Littlefish Discord channel we have created a dedicated channel for people to use the bot for setup. Here are the steps to set your time zone.

Send a message in your dedicated channel saying; /set me
The bot will prompt you a question, asking for your time zone. It will give you a link listing all the time zones. Select your time zone and send there as a message.
Then it will want you to confirm this selection. If it is correct just send message 'Yes' and you are all set.

Now let's say you have set your time zone as UTC+2 and the admin of the server created a meeting with a message 'Let's meet at 5pm UTC'. You will see clock emoji on that message and when you click on it, it will send you a message. There, it will tell you that meeting time is 7pm in your time zone.

Why Does DAO Need It?

One major reason why DAOs need a bot like “Friend Time” is because it will automatically react with a clock emoji to any time mentioned in chat on Discord. When a user reacts to the message, he will be private messaged with the time converted to his own time zone.
For example, let's say you work on a remote basis; you’re in Nigeria and you work with an organization in Turkey - If you're always waiting for someone to tell you what to do next, and eventually that person falls asleep while you're working, you'll never get anything done! Due to different time zones and schedules, It takes more effort to stay in sync.

Yes! DAOs need a bot like Friend time to help them harness the planning of meetings and events across time zones. It sounds so painful that you'd rather just never have meetings, but hey, don't do that either. This meeting and events are crucial; it's a medium where topics are discussed with the intent to bootstrap DAO communities.

Why Is It Important For DAOs?

As decentralized autonomous organization expands across the continents, with constant change in time zones, a large communication gap instills; For some DAO contributors, their waking hour might be someone else nighttime. On the other hand, the difference in time zone might be a stumbling block for companies with speed and customer service as core values. This bot is important for DAOs because it helps them accomplish interdependent tasks without any hurdles.
Lastly, check your workday before you start - it's important and make sure you're on the same page as everyone else. As a DAO, keeping time zone in mind will help your organization and prevent it from suffering from low work productivity.

Recurring Events on Discord with Apollo Bot

Overview of Apollo Bot

The event shows up on the channel you specified and there is a chance that members can miss out if they scroll past it or if they don’t browse that specific channel.

Apollo Bot exists to be one of the best calendar and event bot for Discord. It was designed to offer a powerful all-in-one package for all your event planning with attendance tracking needs too. Not just that, some of the notable features include, recurring events, magic time zones, event reminders, role based sign-ups, and more.

What Apollo Bot Can DO

One-click sign up
Recurring events
Event reminders
Choosing time zone
Can link to Google Calendar

How to Use Apollo Bot

Step 1:

Go to the website:

Step 2:

Click on ‘GET APOLLO’ at the bottom of the landing page.

Step 3:

Choose Server.

Step 4:

Authorize Bot permissions

Step 5:

Confirm proof of human with one click in the next screen and go to your Discord server.

Step 6:

Apollo uses ‘/ commands’.

Type ‘_/event’ _to set up your event.

The bot sends a private message to you with directions for creating the event.

Step 7:

Set up the event by answering the bot questions.

Premium options:

Step 8:

After finishing answering the bot questions, you should be able to see the event in the channel you specified.

Members of the discord can choose the Going, Not going, or Tentative (question mark option) on the post.

The discord manager can delete/edit the event if they choose to.

Note:

If the event is happening on a voice channel, you can post the link to the channel in the description for the event.

There is another bot called Sesh Bot but they only give recurring event options for premium customers.

Why is this useful?

Apollo Bot is essential in the discord channel because it enables community members to easily sign up for events with a single click of a button, right within Discord.
The Apollo Bot allows users to setup greeting messages that welcomes a user that joins your server for the first time. The customizable greeting system is embedded with multiple features to help the user make a greeting message of their own choice. Plus, the bot also provides some variables that enables its users to customize their greeting messages even more.
Apollo bot has a message counter system that will enable DAOs to keep track of message counts for each member in their discord server. The message counter system will enable DAOs to track the activities of their members in their discord and also enabling them to action when they suspect any message that doesn’t comply with the community guideline.

Why is this tool important for DAOs

The Apollo discord bot has a sophisticated has a very sophisticated and advanced giveaway system that DAOs can use to host a massive giveaway or token airdrops to incentivize the community. The most interesting fact about this bot is that the commands can display the amount of wins, hosted on a particular server, in addition to the count, this command also shows what prize has been won by that particular user in the community.

The bot also enables DAOs to set a “claim time.” That is, DAOs can set a specific time for the giveaway winner have to claim the "set prize.”

Apollo bot is very important for DAOs because it enables them to easily translate messages to over 100 languages with just a single click. Many DAO contributors hail from different part of the world where different languages a being spoken, Apollo bot will allow these DAOs and their members to understand each other.

Improving Discord: A Guide for DAOs and DAO members

Discord has emerged as the main hub for DAO communities. It isn't just a communication tool—it's a lifeline that connects members, fosters collaboration, and drives initiatives. However, with the myriad of features and the bustling nature of Discord, DAOs face unique challenges while using this tool. This guide delves into these challenges and offers solutions tailored for DAOs, by DAOs.

As a community member

Discord is a busy place. For those who use it, there are some common problems that can make it feel a bit too much:

Too Many Channels: Discord lets you join many chat rooms, called channels. But with so many chats happening at once, it's easy to get lost.
So Many Alerts: Every time someone sends a message or mentions you, you get a notification. When you're part of many chats, these alerts can pile up and become distracting.
Being Everywhere at Once: Some people join many different groups on Discord. But keeping up with all of them? That's hard. It feels like you're trying to be in many places at once.
Worried About Missing Out: In busy chat rooms, messages come in fast. If you're not always online, you might feel like you're missing out on important chats or news.
Too Much Information: People share a lot on Discord – links, pictures, news, and more. Finding what you need among all that can be like looking for a lost item in a messy room.

Here are our guides to help you through these problems.

Discord Notification Settings: It's essential to tailor your notifications to ensure you're informed without being inundated. This article provides insights into striking that balance.
Guide - Managing Discord Overwhelm: Feeling swamped in a sea of channels and messages? Discover strategies to navigate Discord's bustling environment without feeling overwhelmed.
Guide - littlefish Discord Notifications: For members of the littlefish community, this guide offers tips on customizing notifications to stay abreast of relevant updates without the noise.

In short, while Discord is great for chatting and joining groups, it can also be a bit overwhelming. Finding a way to use it without feeling stressed is key.

As a server admin

Server administrators shoulder the responsibility of ensuring seamless communication, especially when fostering inter-community collaborations. The right tools can make this task significantly more manageable.

Being in charge of a Discord server for DAOs comes with its own set of challenges:

Connecting Communities: With so many separate servers, getting them to talk to each other isn't straightforward. How do you make sure communities can collaborate easily?
Too Many Alerts: Admins get pinged for a lot. From new members joining to important announcements, the notifications can pile up and become overwhelming.
Organizing Events: Planning regular events to keep the community engaged is a big task. Making sure everyone knows when they are and that they run smoothly is another challenge.
Time Zone Troubles: With members from all over the world, figuring out a time that works for everyone can be tricky.
Tokenizing Communities: We are DAOs, we want our tokens to show our reputation, our bonds with our communities. How do we do this?

Here are our guides to help you through:

Building Bridges Between Discord Communities: Inter-community collaboration is the future. Explore the importance of bridging communication gaps and the tools that make it possible.
- A Guide to Using the Multi-Server Chat Bot&How to use ComBot: Dive deep into tools designed to enhance inter-server communication, fostering collaboration and shared initiatives.
Discord Server Analytics: Data-driven insights can revolutionize community engagement. Learn how to leverage server analytics to foster growth and engagement.
Recurring Events on Discord with Apollo Bot: Regular community events are pivotal for engagement. Discover how to streamline event management and ensure consistent member participation.
Syncing Time Zone on Discord: In a global community, time zones can be tricky. Uncover strategies to synchronize community interactions, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
Discord Hazelnet Bot: For Cardano users, The Hazelnet Bot allows the tokenization of your community. With features ranging from cross-server verification to scam-protection and role-based token assignments, it's the tool for community tokenization on Cardano

Other resources

Cardano Project Catalyst

Their Discord server has a dedicated channel to Discord improvement. https://discord.com/channels/756943420660121600/824959034686701588

This board has a lot of info on how they approached making Discord great for their server. They have multiple proposals in Catalyst about this.

PCDiscord Archive

PCDiscord Overview

Bookmark Bot

Bookmarking Discord Messages

Discord is a main littlefish Tools of Work for DAOs and for the LFF. Unfortunately, the ability to bookmark messages within Discord is a missing feature of Discord that many people are missing.

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Bookmarking is important for several reasons. As an individual, we want to collect and curate the important links for projects and for future reference. Likewise for groups and communities, shared resources are a way to establish standards and shared "Bodies of knowledge". This can be useful for onboarding and educational functions of communities.

The steps

I searched for bookmarks in Top.gg, a resource for discord bots. I found two that seemed to address bookmarking of messages: Bookmarker and Bookmark and Botmark

All of these seem to work in a similar fashion - react to the message you want to bookmark and the bot sends you a dm with a copy of the message.

I choose Bookmark by Skeleton Man from the Discord -

Bookmark messages and attachements. Let users or yourself bookmark posts to revisit them later on, or keep them as a back up.

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Bookmark will bookmark any message or attachement when you react with the bookmark emote. The bot will send you an embed with a link to the original message, attachements included in the original message will be added aswell. Bookmark detects NSFW content and spoilers the attachments when sending it to you. No need to worry about showing NSFW items in a SFW enviroment!

Latest additions: Choose your own emote to recieve bookmarks!

Commands:

/help 
/info 
/emote [set,reset] 
/setup

The support servers for the others were not available but I was able to contact the developer of 'Bookmark'. Unfortunately, the bot is not very stable. However, it might be worth an attempt as using. Also, the developer, skeleton man, has offered to share the source with us to host it ourselves. See the Discord support channel for our testing and conversation.

Note on how these bots solve the problem:

There is another way to solve the problem of saving messages or highlighting them for future reference: the search function! A possible method would be to react with an emote and then search for that emote. This is a requested feature and is not currently supported in Discord. Many folks have requested this...

Reactions are a big part of the Discord Bot experience. Here is the Discord.js section on reactions

How to Use 'Bookmark' Discord Bot

Invite the bot to the server -How to invite a bot

review the bot commands - Commands: /help /info /emote [set,reset] /setup
find the message you want to save
check your DMs for a message from the bot

How Bookmarking Help DAOs

Discord is a very popular tool that is used by DAOs for variety of reasons like Permissions, Roles and Channel organization but. One important problem of Discord is catching up. If you are absent even for a couple of days, there can be hundreds if not thousands of messages and discussions in multiple channels. Even missing couple of hours can result missing a lot of information as DAOs have members from different timezones and not everyone can be online at the same time.

Imagine what a newcomer to the organization experiences. As new members join the DAO, they may need to catch up on past decisions, discussions, or key pieces of information. If there's a system in place to highlight or bookmark these, the onboarding process becomes smoother.

DAOs frequently have discussions on various topics, from governance decisions to project proposals. Being able to bookmark or flag significant pieces of information ensures that these insights aren't lost in the constant flow of conversation.

Disclaimer

As of March 2022, this bot is no longer available as a service. You need to self-host it if you want to use it. Link can be found here.

Guide - Managing Discord Overwhelm

When diving into Discord, especially in our community, you will soon find yourself on many different Discord servers and the volume of posts, forums, direct messages, and information can overwhelm and disorient. Already there? Great! This is what this document is intended to help with: to get your Discord back under control and enable you to just see what is most important and restore a feeling of control.

Setting up Discord Notifications: Discord Notification Settings

Setting up littlefish Server's Discord Notifications: Guide - littlefish Discord Notifications

Video Tutorials

Here are a couple of useful YouTube videos to watch to understand the basics of muting notifications, and organizing servers into folders. Check these out first, as the rest of this document will build on top of these concepts.

Now that you know how to use folders and mute notifications and channels, and have some familiarity with the Discord user settings, lets drop into some real helpful tips on how to tame the chaos.

Taming the Chaos

The ideal state of Discord is to open the application and see a few notifications for channels that are important for what you want to contribute or be informed of. All the other conversations and messages are still there, but they are not hopping around demanding attention so you can chose to deal with them on your own terms... or not.

Visual Calm

Here are some tips to achieve more visual calm when looking at a particular Discord server. It will show only the important stuff, and hide the rest until you need it. You'll be in a state of zen-like bliss.

Go into settings and "Hide Muted Channels" if you want. This will reduce the number of channels that you see.
Next to each category section in Discord is a little spinner. Click these all closed to collapse all the different channels. This will hide the long list of channels and bring a sense of peace. 😌 Don't worry though, channels that are not muted will pop out the bottom of the closed categories if there are new messages, like so:

Notification Settings

Next we'll talk about some tipcs for notification settings based on how you want to interact with a server or how important it is that you are notified when people need you to read a message. Notification settings are super important to set in order to tame the chaos of Discord.

Important Servers

These are the servers that you call home and desire to interact with frequently. For these servers, set the "Notification Settings" to "Only @mentions", but leave the suppression options disabled so you can still be notified for role and @everyone mentions. Make sure to spin closed all the categories as mentioned above.

Effect: This will prevent overwhelm of being notified of every single message, but you can still be called out by people, see replies to your messages, and anything important that people tag with roles or @everyone. You can still see the little "new messages" dots on channels that have activity.

Informational Servers

These are servers that you use for informational purposes, or to stay connected with a community, but not on a regular basis. For these servers, it is useful to suppress @role mentions as well as the @everyone and @here mentions.

Mute - "until I turn it back on"
set Server Notification settings to "Nothing"
Suppress @everyone and @here
Suppress all role @mentions

Effect: This will prevent any red notification badges from showing up, and you won't be visually distracted or notified for any activity on the server. Blissful serene Discord, and you can still jump in the server anytime if you need to.

Folders

Now organize your servers into Folders. Use whatever scheme that makes sense to you. You could have one folder for your most important Discord servers, and another for all the informational ones. Or you can create folders for NFT projects, Developer servers, Impact servers, etc. What ever you decide is right, the use of folders can create a sense of calm.

You can even right-click on a folder and mark the whole folder as read. Ahh, calm!

Folder Settings

You can set the folder names and color by right clicking on a folder to get to the settings:

Organizing Folders by Priority

One way to organize your folders is by how important the servers are followed by categorized servers. The folder hierarchy might look something like this:

Daily working servers
Weekly visits
Monthly Scans
Courses
Developer
NFT Projects
Informational

The top three are organized by frequency of visits. This is a helpful tool to reduce overwhelm as you can ignore a folder for a week or a month and go in and poke around on your schedule. And you have your top level # 1 folder as the space where you look daily so that is the only place you need to look on a regular basis.

Here is an example complete picture of calm:

Only the most important servers are showing in the top folder. Everything else is tucked away. The bottom four folders are all muted and won't bug me until I am ready to go looking for stuff. Folders 2 and 3, I can check on a weekly or monthly basis.

More Resources

Discord Friend Nicknames + Other Tips & Tricks for Organization
Better Discord
- An app that gives you a better Discord (Themes, Tabs, and more)
- Note: use of this plug-in may be violating Discords terms of use (needs more research!)
- https://betterdiscord.app/
- ChannelTabs
  - https://betterdiscord.app/plugin/ChannelTabs
- PinDMs
  - https://betterdiscord.app/plugin/PinDMs
- Server Counter
  - https://betterdiscord.app/plugin/ServerCounter

Discord Server Analytics

Tools to Analyze Discord Channels

(Aug 15th, 2022; Draft 1)

Available Options:

Discord ‘Enable Community’ Tool
Analytics Bot
Serverstats Bot (Bonus)
Enable Community Tool:

Advantages:

Free and open to use
Part of discord (not external plugin or bot)
Displays usage & popularity of all discord channels, individual channel & server interaction insights and many more (List of all insights in images)

Disadvantage:

Needs a minimum of 500 members in the server to show insights

Note: If you are the owner of the server, the insights page will display a dropdown menu to choose specific channels and view insights.

The dropdown menu is not displayed in the images below, because I’m not the server owner)

Image-view of all server Insights provided:

How to set up ‘Enable Community’ tool?

Link to a comprehensive set-up tutorial. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLWybjZnJFNsHDQbYvk2Q-xqevfAXKtM0

Analytics Bot:

Advantages:

Gamifies Discord with individual user data and activity (Image: SA_10)
Customizable leader boards based on points assigned for specific actions (Image: SA_11)

Disadvantage:

Users have no control over their data

Website: https://analytics-bot.com/#page-top

Individual User Data:

Bot Capabilities & Action Commands:

Note: Use slash commands

Setting up Analytics Bot: (Follow these steps)

Website (https://analytics-bot.com/) → Invite to Server → Choose Server → Continue → Authorize → Make sure the bot is in the server → Use with ‘/’ commands.

Invite to Server

Choose Server

Continue

Authorize

Check for Analytics Bot in your server

Start using '/' commands and choose from suggestions

Serverstat Bot (Bonus)

How to set up and utility?

Command List & Functions:

Why Does DAOs Need Discord Server Analytics?

DAOs need Discord server Analytics because:

Improves Engagement: It provides insights that can help DAOs measure engagement in their Discord. Come to think of it, engagement is the life blood of any online community. We’ve all been there! It almost feels like a superpower when you see individuals interaction with your Discord announcements, join events, community calls, or scream at funny memes - this literally means that your community members are resonating, engaging and they find your community interesting.
Make Better Decisions: Secondly, it's obvious that community building and team management are difficult tasks to handle. Sometimes, it's difficult to tell when a decision you're making is based on hard evidence. Thank goodness, Discord server Analytics make DAOs decision-making process easier with the peace of mind that they're backed by existing data. For greater benefits, Discord server Analytics display data that allow DAOs to see trends - this trend is insightful, it may lead to drastic improvements to their Discord server.
From a bird’s-eye view, Discord server Analytics help DAOs quickly Identify peak activity times and days to optimize content delivery and event schedules. Clearly, everyone has different schedules and different time zones! DAOs need Discord server Analytics so as to help them optimize content and maximize engagement. Just like social media platforms, there are specific time your target audience would likely be online. Say you’re running a social media campaign, understanding this metric will make your Ads perform better.

Discord server Analytics are no different! It provides data about how your members are interacting with your channel - this will give you a clear sight into how to schedule your next meetings and to tailor content and engage users effectively.

Why Is Discord Server Analytics Important For DAOs?

Discord server Analytics is so power to the extent of analyzing user engagement patterns. How? It provides information such as the most frequently visited channels on your server or topics of interest. Additionally, this tool also plays a pivotal role when it comes sentiment analysis. This data is paramount while also enabling DAOs to understand how their members feel about the community, and identify areas for improvement.
Another revolutionary importance of Discord server Analytics is that the insights gathered can be used to improve DAO onboarding process. With Discord server Analytics, DAOs can know where users dropped off while trying to join their Discord - Truth be told, individuals want something straightforward, onboarding should be simple as possible, user-friendly and engaging. Equally, Discord server Analytics will enable DAOs to monitor user retention rates and implement strategies that will increase long-term engagement in their Discord.

Discord Notification Settings

Short video on setting up your Discord Notifications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKdpU80hDs

Setting up Discord Notifications

This document is created to guide you through the following actions:

Settings for optimal notifications
Never miss anything from a specific channel
Audio Notifications

Setting up for Optimal Notifications

These are the settings used if you are in too many Discord servers and don’t want to be overwhelmed with notifications.

Step 1:

Setting up universal notification settings for all Discord servers you are on.

Click on your profile settings

Click on Notifications

Summary of your actions:

Disabled Desktop Notifications

Enabled Unread Message badge

Disabled all TEXT-TO-SPEECH notifications

Disabled All Notification Sounds

Disabled Message Notification Sound

Adjusting server notification settings
Right-click on the specific server → Notification Settings → Choose the options: Only @mentions; Include Highlights (optional); Mobile Push Notifications

Note: ‘Only @mentions’ option for a specific server makes it the default option for all channels in that server.

Enable notifications for all messages in channels that are of specific interest to you.

Channels that are strongly recommended in the Littlefish Discord:

Announcements
Events
Action
Task-board
New-tasks

Actions: Go to the specific channel → Right-click → Notification Settings → All Message

Repeat this step for all the channels that interest you.

The End.

Never miss anything from a specific channel

These settings must be used if the activity in a specific channel is significant to you.

Note: For convenience, we’ll assume that you have already optimized your notification settings.

Step 1:

Right-click on the specific channel → Notification Settings

Step 2:

Make sure your server notification settings allow for push notifications

Right-click on server → Notification Settings → Mobile Push Notifications

Step 3:

Enable Desktop notifications in your main profile settings.

Now you will get a Desktop or a mobile notification for every activity on your favorite channel.

Note: These settings perform best when you have a select few important channels across Discord servers.

It is best to change the settings for the rest of your servers as follows:

Right-click on each individual server → Notification Settings → Disable Mobile Push Notifications

The End.

Audio Notifications

These settings work best when only a few important channels are chosen among all your servers.

Step 1:

Enable audio notifications in the profile settings.

Profile Settings → Notifications → Choose settings (follow the picture)

Action Summary:

Enabled Message notification sounds. You will hear a sound everytime there is a message in one of your important channels.

The End.

Bonus Function

Check and adjust notification settings for multiple channels in the same server.

Step 1:

Click on the Discord server icon → Click on drop down menu → NotificationSettings → Scroll to bottom of the pop-up → Adjust notification settings for multiple channels (add channel from drop down menu)

The end.

Guide - littlefish Discord Notifications

Notification Settings for Littlefish

Note:

These notification settings are recommended for anyone that wants to get involved with Littlefish Foundation in a meaningful capacity. The suggested settings notify you of the opportunities, activities, and discussions of your choosing at Littlefish Foundation.

Words you need to be familiar with:

General settings: Settings that apply to all servers that you are a part of
Server settings: Settings that apply to all channels in a specific server
Channel settings: Settings that apply to a specific channel
@mention: When someone mentions you in a specific channel
@everyone: When someone mentions everyone in a specific server or channel.

---begin tutorial---

Step 1: Setting up your general notifications. These notifications apply to all the servers that you are a part of.

In this step, we are enabling the following:

Desktop Notifications
Unread Message Badges
All notification sounds
Notification emails

Below are the steps involved:

Open General Notification settings

Enable all or some of these notifications (based on personal preference)

Step 2: This step is divided into three sub-steps. a. Setting up server notifications b. Maximizing notifications for important channels c. Minimizing notifications for less frequented channels & servers

a. Setting up server notifications:

Open server notification through either of the methods and choose @mention (you get notified when someone mentions you or @everyone)

b. Maximizing notifications for important channels:

Following are the suggested channels in the Littlefish discord (additions and deletions can be made based on personal preference)

Announcements
Information
Proposals
Events
Actions
Task-board
Task-discussion
New-tasks
Ask-anything (in case you can help)
Ideas
Dao-talk
Partner-announcement

Following are the steps involved:

Open server notifications (Image 8, & 9)

Add or delete channels and allow notifications for all messages in these channels.

c. Minimizing notifications for less frequented channels & servers:

Right-click on servers that you don’t frequent → Notifications → Only @mentions → Supress @everyone and @here

Set up for iPhone:

General Settings:

2. Maximizing Littlefish server and channel notifications

Minimizing notifications for less frequent servers. Choose the servers and follow these steps.

Discord Hazelnet Bot

Hazelnet bot allows users to integrate their Cardano wallet into discord. Thanks to this integration, communities can manage voting and staking operations via discord and categorize users with roles according to their transactions.

! Hazelnet bot is in open beta for now, not officially released yet

1. Installation

The installation process is very simple, just call the bot to desired discord server from Hazelnet's website.

https://www.hazelnet.io/invitebot

After the invite run "/start" command for basic installation.

2. Features

- Secure and private verification of addresses for wallets, via “transaction-to-self”

- Scam-protection features

A feature that can be used to directly block or quarantine wallet addresses shared in channels.

https://www.hazelnet.io/documentation/configure-protection-status

- Adding official stakepools for your Discord server ( Black Edition)

Allows admins to add stakepools to their server with Pool ID

https://www.hazelnet.io/documentation/configure-stakepool-add

- Create and manage polls in Discord ( Black Edition )

Allows community managers to set polls in Discord. Time and date range can be set for these polls to be created.

https://www.hazelnet.io/documentation/configure-poll-add

Apart from its traditional use, polls can be also used creatively.

A post on twitter by Hazelnet user

- Automatic role assignments for delegators of designated stakepools , fungible token and NFT holders.

Delegation;

NFT;

Customize roles with metadata when creating roles for NFT owners

https://www.hazelnet.io/documentation/configure-tokenroles-metadatafilter-add

https://www.hazelnet.io/tutorials

Example usage; To create roles based on how many NFT's they hold

/configure-tokenroles add policy-id d5e6bf0500378d4f0da4e8dde6becec7621cd8cbf5cbb9b87013d4cc role @DesertTiger count 1

- Whitelist signup with required roles, start/end dates, and user limits, that can be accessed by your dev team securely via REST API ( Black Edition )

Normally, no one, including administrators, can see the addresses that are integrated using Hazelnet bot. It has been designed in this way for user privacy.

If managers need to reach addresses for some purposes, a whitelist must be created to obtain the address codes of the users. The addresses of the users who join the white list voluntarily will be visible to the dev team with the REST API.

3. Additional Notes

Black Edition:

The version of Hazelnet that includes the premium features it offers to its users. You can have premium features by delegating ADA to HAZEL.

Currently, the bot is managed with commands applied from discord, but a web panel can be added for management in the future.

Last but not least, All commands and explanations about usage are available on their website. https://www.hazelnet.io/documentation

Docusaurus

Author: Emir Olgun

Date: 7 March 2023

Introduction

Docusaurus is a static-site generator. It seems very useful because Markdown files can be posted on it. The tool looks like a promising tool for DAOs because it is almost effortless to create Documents and can be used by non-technical people easily.

How to Use Docusaurus

Docusaurus has a 5 minute gamified tutorial. In order to play it you need on your computer. You can download the lasest version of node.js for your OS. To try the demo you need to interact with the terminal of your computer. For basic terminal commands please check .

If you are on a Mac, Press Command+Space Bar and type terminal and you are in the terminal.
If you are on a windows, you can search for powershell on the Search and run.
If you are on Linux, you know what to do. :upside_down_face:

After node.js is successfully installed, run the command below in your terminal. to create your Docusaurus demo site.

To start the site:

After these commands, go to your favorite browser and type http://localhost:3000 and you can follow the tutorial on the website that opens up.

More detailed documentation can also be found .

What Docusaurus Does

Docusaurus is a platform built with React. You can publish markdown docs and markdown blogs. It is customizable if you are familiar with JS and HTML. The website by default has a sidebar that shows the folders and documents similar to what Obsidian does. Nested Folders are supported. The top bar can provide different pages so you can have a blog page, a document page and more. Creating mor pages and new sidebars requires editing Javascript scripts so there is a need for a technical understanding.

Comparison to Obsidian

Docusaurus and Obsidian are quite similar. Both platforms provide static websites for publishing markdown documents. The advantage of obsidian is it provides the user with a platform to write, edit and organize the documents, the writer can see the effects of their work instantly. On the other hand, docusaurus does not have a platform and writing, editing and organizing the documents. So the user has to deal with other tools to write their documents and manually organize them in their OS' explorer, then use the terminal. Docusaurus interface is much more clear by default and easy to track. Currently in Obsidian, as you read more and more documents, the tabs can be overwhelming. Linking other documents in Docusaurus is more challenging than Obsidian. To put a link to another document in your website, you have to put directory path of it to the link, in Obsidian doing the same thing only requires typing the documents name.

Importance for DAOs

Docusaurus stands as a pivotal tool for DAOs primarily because of its capability to foster organized, accessible, and transparent documentation. DAOs, being decentralized entities, necessitate comprehensive documentation frameworks to elucidate their governance structures, tokenomics, and operational guidelines. Docusaurus seamlessly integrates with platforms like GitHub, promoting decentralized collaboration – a hallmark of DAOs. Its versioning support ensures that as DAOs evolve, their historical documentation remains intact and accessible, emphasizing transparency and showcasing the evolutionary journey of the organization.

Moreover, the global nature of DAOs demands tools that cater to a diverse audience. Docusaurus meets this need through its localization features, allowing for multilingual documentation that engages members from various cultural backgrounds. Additionally, its integrated blog support acts as a conduit for continuous communication, keeping the DAO community informed and engaged. In an era where transparency, collaboration, and community engagement are paramount for decentralized entities, Docusaurus emerges as an indispensable asset for DAOs, providing a structured and interactive platform for knowledge dissemination.

Conclusion

Docusaurus is a very useful tool to create a documentation website. It brings down the technical barrier of making a website significantly and gives a very good customization potential for technical people at the same time.

Additional Links

Obsidian-Github Integration in Windows

Backing up your vault with git and having it set up as a repository on GitHub has two main benefits, first, it allows you to keep all your personal notes, configs and workspace settings in sync with all of your devices. And second, it makes collaboration on shared vaults (multiple contributors) more convenient. With git integration in Obsidian it is easier to contribute and keep track of other members' contributions.

In this document, I will explain step by step how you can make this integration in your Windows computer.

Step#1. Git Installation

First, verify if git is already installed in your computer. To do this, open the command line interface ( windows + r , cmd, enter ) and type git --version and than press enter. If the returned message is 'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. it means that git is not installed and you need to install it.

In this document [[Install Git for Windows]], you may find a detailed step by step guide on how to successfully install git in your Windows computer.

Step#2. Download and Install Obsidian

You can download Obsidian from the following link;

After finishing installing the app, you need to create a new vault. The process is illustrated in the images below:

Next, click on the settings icon in bottom left corner and from there select Community Plugins and then Turn on community plugins.

In the screen that appears, click on Browse and then type Obsidian Git in the search box. After find the Obsidian Git plugin, click on the install button.

Now return one page back and you will see that Obsidian Git has been installed, but there is a message that says that it is not ready yet.

The reason for this warning is that you need to a git history folder, before you can do anything with Obsidian.

Now go to the directory where you chose to place the vault (beginning of step#2.) from there click on new vault > .obsidian > plugins. Inside plugins you will see an "obsidian-git" folder, and ".git" folder is missing. Now in Step#3. we will create this folder and this will make our integration functional.

Step#3. Download and Install Github Desktop and Prepare for Integration with Obsidian

After finishing installing, open the app, go to files on the top left corner and click on New repository....

This new repository is going to be the folder that you can use as your Obsidian Vault.

Now if you go again to the location of "new vault", inside you will see a new folder named repository. And inside of it you will see the ".git" folder created by Github Desktop.

".git" folders are hidden items so if you don't see it as shown in the image above, click on the view tab from the top left corner and click on the box labeled as "Hidden Items".

Now that you can see both ".git" folder and ".gitattributes" Text Document inside the repository folder, select both and cut (CTRL+X). Go back to the new vault folder, and paste (CTRL+V).

Now from new vault folder, you can delete the folder named "repository" since it is not doing anything. Now there is one remaining step and you will be set.

Step#4. Final Adjustments

Return to the Obsidian app and try to create a new folder. Click on the folder icon on the top left corner of the screen.

After you create the empty folder, go back to Github Desktop. Here you will see a message saying "Can't find repository" or whatever you named your repository created from Github Desktop in the beginning of Step#3.

Click on Locate... button and from there select new folder to replace the repository. Follow the same steps as illustrated in the image below.

Return to Github Desktop, and now you will see that new vault is listed as the Current Repository.

Now you are all set. Go on and add some new components on the Obsidian, commit the changes and then Publish repository. When you Publish the repository, everything inside new vault in your computer will be uploaded to Github online.

One last thing, just to verify the process. In Step#2 we mentioned that even though the plugin installed successfully, there was a message "Git is not ready" under Git Backup Settings. If now, you go back to settings in Obsidian and click on "Obsidian Git" from the bottom left, there will be no warning message under Git Backup Settings.

Buttondown Email Newsletters

Buttondown is a simple email newsletter service: https://buttondown.email/ that allows the use of Markdown to create newsletters.

The service is free up to 100 subscribers. From 100 to 1000 subscribers, it will cost $9.00/mo., etc. as shown below:

Features

Markdown

All email are created using standard Markdown for simple formatting. See: https://buttondown.email/features/markdown

Transactional Email

There are four "transactional" email that you can set the body content for on Buttondown. A transactional email is one that is send based on some action by a subscriber. These email are:

Welcome Email
Confirmation Email
Confirmed Email
Reminder Email

API

https://buttondown.email/features/api

There is an API key that can be used for integrations such as the Obsidian Buttondown plugin to automate or run newletter functions outside of the Buttondown website.

Domains

You are able to set the domain from which the email will be sent, as well as the hosting domain for people to go to for subscribing, unsubscribing, etc.

The newsletter subscription can be shared in several ways:

As a link (click on the link to subscribe)
As an iFrame

Paid Subscriptions

Engagement Tracking

Obsidian Integration

Installing the ButtonDown plugin

API Key can be found here: https://buttondown.email/settings#api

Unfortunately, this plugin does not seem to be maintained, and it does not work on my install of Obsidian 1.0, there is an error in the console. Looking on the github page, this code has not been updated in 8 months, so this is not a valid path.

However, copying Obsidian Markdown to Buttondown works great.

After sending an email, you have options offered to promote the newsletter on social email or share the link.

Why DAOs need this

There are many email newsletter solution on the internet today, but, we all want a tool that will give us almost everything we desire. Decentralized organizations need a software like Buttondown since it enables them to save quality time by automating the process of sending out newsletters to their subscribers.

A tool like Buttondown is usedul for disbursing newsletter, it allows users to paste some Markdown or HTML into the tool and send it to their subscribers with just one click.

The tool has a subscriber management functionality that can enable decentralized organizations to keep track of who’s reading their outgoing newsletters. The tag functionality can also be used by smart admins to keep track of who’s volunteered for upcoming events in the DAO community.
DAOs need a tool like Buttondown to maximize their marketing efforts and Increase brand awareness. Social media isn’t the only platform that helps a company’s brand awareness. Collecting email addresses of community members means one thing: they showed a level of interest in your business. With Email marketing, DAOs have the opportunity to increase that interest level, and brand awareness.

Why is it important for DAOs.

As a DAO, you’ll likely write a professional industry newsletter or just sharing links and valuable resources with community members, it’s significant to look through your data very often to see what’s working and what isn’t. Buttondown has a built-in email analytics tool that allows users to examine their subscribers behavior over time so they can send better emails.
Buttondown is an important tool for DAOs because it enhances the disbursement of (roadmap updates, upcoming events, DAOs can easily send out marketing material (testimonials, case studies, coupons and limited offers) to their team or community. According to Hubspot survey, it states that 91% of consumers use email. DAOs that uses email marketing server like Buttondown can tap into streams of opportunities since email is huge in the B2B world and currently, it accounts for the most prominent form of communication for 73% of businesses worldwide.

Fliki

Author: Emir Olgun

Date: 13 March 2023

Introduction

Fliki is a text-to-video generation tool. It can be very useful for social media content generation. The tool has lots of language support, a built-in ai image generator, a library of free images and videos, and it supports user input of images or videos. It is very easy to use the tool. It has a paid plan and a free trial.

How to use it

To use Fliki, you need to choose a plan and sign in. Then you will be greeted by a short tutorial video, which explains almost everything you need to know to start using Fliki. After that, you can create a project, and you will see a screen like this one. Here is a detailed explanation of this page:

Each box is a part of the video. First, the voice actor, then the box for the text, and the last one is the image or video to accompany the voice.
At the bottom of the page, you can play, rewind and stop the video.
The right side of the screen shows the video you generated.

Voice actors

The voice selection is very rich. You can choose the language, dialect, and gender for your voice. Some languages even have child voices like American English.

Image or Video Selection

Here you have three options. Stock library of videos or images, AI-generated images, or your media.

Stock Library

Finding images or videos in the stock library is pretty straightforward. You type the keyword and a relevant image or video shows up.

Uploading Media

You can upload an image or a video for your videos.

AI image generator

You can generate ai images for your video. Here is a very bad example of an ai image so be sure to be specific enough about your prompts: It takes around 10 seconds to generate an ai image.

Format and Export

You can choose the aspect ratio of your video and there are three options:

Square, Suitable for Instagram and Twitter
Portrait, suitable for TikTok, Instagram, Youtube Shorts and Facebook
Landscape, suitable for more traditional video platforms like Youtube

Also, you can activate or deactivate subtitles, fade effect between sections, and zoom effect. You can change the size, colour, and font of your subtitles. Exporting video takes time, It took around 4 minutes for my 50-second video. The exported video is an MP4 video and is directly downloaded from Fliki’s website.

How Good It Is

I only tried the free trial, which has a very limited voice selection and stock video and image selection. The example video can be seen here. It took around ten minutes to create this video.

I believe this tool can be very useful for short and medium-length videos. The best area that comes to my mind is Instagram reels, Youtube Shorts, TikTok, and Twitter. The trial plan voices are mostly robotic but the paid plans have more natural-sounding voices so I strongly suggest choosing a paid plan.

How a DAO Can Benefit Using Fliki

Promoting DAOs on different platforms like social media, requires constant flow of new content. In today's world, video content is often more engaging than text. Making videos and voice overs are very time consuming tasks, require different set of skills and expensive. Fliki also supports a variety of languages, so DAOs can reach even more people all over the world.

Another important usecase is the onboarding processes of DAOs. A newcomer usually is greeted with boring whitepapers, articles and rule books. If DAOs turn these contents into videos, the onboarding process can become much less intimidating.

Conclusion

Fliki seems like a very useful tool and it can save a lot of time and money for organizations. The content generated is not the highest quality but they are more than enough for short video platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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Murf.ai

Author: Uli

Date: 22.02.23

What is Murf.ai ?

Murf.ai is a startup that develops digital products themed around text-to-speech and voice generation with artificial intelligence. They are specialized in creating AI-generated voices that sound realistic and natural.

What products do they offer?

Text to Speech

Within Murf Studio you can convert your texts to a natural sounding voice.

Voice Cloning

Contact customer support to create custom unique voices that mimics real human emotions like anger, happiness, sadness, and more.

Voice over Video

You can create voice overs for videos and presentations in a timeline structure in Murf Studio.

Voiceover Google slides addon

Install the Murf addon for Google slides to create voice over for google slides.

Voice Changer

Use Murf Studio to swap your own recorded voice to a professional voice from Murf.ai.

API

Use cases

Murf.ai can be used for a variety of tasks.

You can create realistic sounding voice-overs for e-learning, advertisements, explainer videos, presentations, product demos, youtube videos, video games, animations and other media. And you can also produce voices for podcasts, audiobooks or prepare natural sounding interactive voice response systems.

Additionally, Murf.ai also offers custom services to meet the specific needs of clients, such as voice cloning, voiceover services, and tools for creating AI-generated conversations.

How to

Lets try and create a short video about littlefish. To do that open the Murf Studio and create a new project.

Add some text, import a few pictures and arrange everything in the timeline.

Features

Voices

there are more than 120 voices for over 20 languages available (Turkish too :)). So if you have created one project in English, just copy the project and add new text in another language.

Templates

In Murf Studio there are also sets of customizable templates for promos, presentations or podcasts.

Pricing

There are different subscription models like free, basic, pro, enterprise for various needs ranging around 0/19/26/59$/user on a yearly basis (monthly subscriptions are also possible).

Additionally, Murf.ai also offers custom services to meet the specific needs of clients.

Glossary

text to speech

Text to speech (TTS) is a technology that converts written text into spoken words. It is a computer-based process that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to produce a synthesized voice that can read out the text aloud. The TTS system works by analyzing the text and identifying its structure and context to produce a spoken output that mimics human speech. This technology is often used to provide voice prompts for automated customer service systems, create audiobooks, assist people with visual impairments, and even to read out text messages and emails for hands-free convenience.

voice cloning

Voice cloning is a technology that uses artificial intelligence to create a synthetic copy of a person's voice. It involves training a computer system to analyze and learn the unique voice patterns, intonations, and speech characteristics of a target speaker. The system then uses this data to generate a computer-generated voice that sounds similar to the target speaker. Voice cloning has a wide range of applications, such as in text-to-speech systems, chatbots, personal assistants, and voice-over work. It can be used to create a digital voice replica of a person, which can be useful for generating voice content, voice commands, and other voice-based applications. Voice cloning technology is still in its early stages, and there are ongoing debates about its ethical implications and potential misuse.

voice over video

Voice-over video refers to a technique in which a recorded voice is played over a video, explaining or commenting on what is being shown on the screen. It is a popular method of storytelling and is often used in documentaries, instructional videos, and presentations. In voice-over videos, the audio is usually recorded separately from the video and then synchronized with the visual content during the editing process. The voice-over artist can provide additional information, insights, or explanations about the video content, making it more engaging and informative for the viewers. Voice-over video can be an effective way to convey complex information, communicate with audiences who may be hearing-impaired, and add an emotional or persuasive element to the visuals.

voice changer

A voice changer is a software or hardware device that can alter the sound of a person's voice in real-time or during post-processing. The software can manipulate the pitch, tone, and tempo of a person's voice to make them sound like a different gender, age, or species. The hardware device is usually a small gadget that can be attached to a microphone, and the software can be used with a computer, mobile phone, or gaming console. Voice changers are commonly used for entertainment purposes, such as creating humorous or scary voice effects, playing pranks on friends, and enhancing the gaming experience. Voice changers are also used in professional settings, such as in the movie and animation industry, to create unique and authentic voice effects for characters.

Steve AI

Author: Donald

Date: 16 Mar 2023

Introduction

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, video content is king. With an increasing number of businesses and individuals relying on video for marketing, education, and entertainment, the demand for efficient and effective video creation tools is higher than ever. Steve.ai is a groundbreaking web app that has taken the video production world by storm. This innovative app revolutionizes the video creation process by converting scripts to live videos in a matter of minutes. With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Steve.ai is your one-stop solution for generating high-quality video content that captivates your audience.

Artificial Intelligence

At the core of Steve.ai's success is its cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The app uses advanced machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to understand the nuances of your script and transform it into visually stunning and engaging live videos. With Steve.ai, creators no longer have to spend hours editing and piecing together clips to tell a story. The app takes care of everything, from analyzing your script and selecting the most appropriate visuals, to animating characters and synchronizing voiceovers.

Some Features of Steve.ai Platform

Upon logging into steve.ai, the initial page you will encounter is the "Create" page, which is identical to the one displayed below:

Upon clicking the Start button in Script to Live video, you will be prompted to provide specific characteristics for your desired video. The form displayed below is precisely where you should input these specifications.

In the subsequent step, the user is required to input the script which outlines the content of the video. It is crucial to note that a prompt must be provided for each individual scene that the user envisions for the video. In the end of the screen the user may find some options such as to add Music, Voice Over or even Auto Highlight.

After clicking on Next button the user needs to choose a design style. On mouseover the app will show a short preview of each of these styles. Checkout the image below

Finally, the next step is called the Workspace. In here the user can edit the generated video as they wish. After reaching a satisfying version, user should click on Publish button to finalize the process.

In this part the user has a lot of options, they may change the voice over or even the characters that appear on the video.

Why DAOs Need This Tool?

For greater benefits, DAOs need Steve.ai video creation platform to enable them create engaging videos for social media platforms, advertising, storytelling, and more. Steve.ai technology helps brands and businesses to seamlessly convert scripts into captivating videos in a matter of minutes.

Creating videos with video editing softwares like Adobe Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro is fun, but, very challenging and time consuming - I’ve been there before; DAOs need Steve.ai because it removes the need for hiring professionals to do the work. Again, it enables them to create high-quality videos with minimal effort, time, and cost

Steve AI assistant gets your work done in minutes! Can I be real with you? DAOs needs Steve.ai because it harnesses the making of animated videos without breaking the bank, and spending weeks shooting multiple scenes to tell a story! – Simply enter Steve and let the AI customize your videos in one click.

Why Is This Tool Important For DAOs

Steve.ai can be used by DAOs to create videos to promote their products, or ecosystem or to simplify their onboarding process to individuals that wants to become part of their community. A few number of individuals likes private lifestyle or hate the sight of cameras. This tool is also good for creating presentations and animated videos for DAO events without having to be seen by anyone.
One of the cornerstone benefits of this tool is that you don’t need any design skills to tell a captivating story, yes! Steve.ai has tons of customized templates that are ready to use. Go ahead and select that template that suit your need! Additionally, the videos created by Steve.ai can truly become assets to your brand communications.
Steve.ai is important to DAOs because they can use the tool to repurpose their blogs into videos. One of the most insane things this tool can do is that users can convert blog posts into bite-sized videos. If you've ever sat down to read those lengthy DAOs white paper documents, then kudos to you! Reading long form articles and blogs can be very tiring but, transforming these articles into a lively animated scene will truly change the game.

People enjoy watching video content than to sit down for several minutes and hours reading content that bores them out. With Steve, DAOs can convert their blogs in seconds across channels; simply paste the URL, and let the AI do its thing.

Additional information

Relevant Links:

-D.

Disclaimer: The content is for informational purposes only, may include the author's personal opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of littlefish Foundation.

Bubble

Author: Creed

Date: 14 March 2023

Introduction

Bubble.io is no longer a new phenomenon.If you don't already know what Bubble is, you're in the right page - In this blueprint, you'll get to know more about the tool, how it works, limitations of the tool, pros and cons, as well as how to build.

To begin with, bubble exists to be one of the most powerful no-code development platforms that allows users to program, design, host, and scale web applications.

Bubble is very simple to use; once you understand the working environment, you can begin to fix and create things within a matter of minutes. This tool is suitable for individuals with no prior experience in writing codes - that being said; Bubble allows you to create stunning web applications without writing a single line of code. Bubble has eliminated the need for coding background by providing a flexible editor for developers to create their web apps without any hurdles.

How does it work?

With Bubble, one can easily create web apps even if they do not have any experience. The applications developed by Bubble can be easily accessed via a computer web browser, tablet, or phone.

In Bubble, all your applications have a separate database, with this, all Bubble developers can create their accounts to save data, and retrieve data when the need arises. Bubble has one of the most efficient editors amongst other no-code builders, the possibility of what Bubble can do is almost endless as they're are so many features embedded within the program which allows Bubblers to build exactly what they desire.

It might interest you to know that Bubble supports the following features:

Developers can create user accounts easily.
Bubble allows for the saving, modification, deleting, and retrieval of data without any hassle.
Bubble has real-time updates; I built some applications a while back with several no-code platforms but some of them lack the real-time update feature which I wasn't really happy about.
Bubble makes it possible to not only enable developers from all walks of life to connect any kind of external services to their application; anything from API (Application Programming Interface,) to payment system integration to authentication providers - just to mention a few, all is possible within Bubble.
Bubble allows developers to create responsive applications - which means your apps can fit well in different screen sizes.

How it is used:

So firstly, if you do not already have a bubble.io account, you'll need to create one. You can sign up with your Google Account.
Once you're inside Bubble, hover over your mouse to "Create an App."

Select a unique name for your app; then hit the Create App Button - in the meantime; you can also go to Bubble marketplace to choose from a variety of ready-made templates to ease your workflow. With a Bubble template, you don't necessarily need to build your apps from scratch.

The next page should display the name of your application; you can change it anytime you want though. Followed by the font style of the app, your app color, and app plugins which adds more functionality to your app. Once you're done, click "Get Started."

Now, it's time to start customizing your app to your own needs and preferences.The design tab allows you to add any kind of element in your app; you can see my own example. I added a button (CREED WRITERS - BEST AI WRITING TOOL.) In Bubble, "Workflow" will help add functionalities to your app. For example, if someone clicks the button, what should happen next? If this happens, what happens next? You can use this as a template to create your dream applications.

Limitations of Bubble

One major downside of Bubble is that developers cannot create native apps for both IOS and Android operating systems.
Bubble does not allow developers to run Python programs or other scripts.
There are UI templates and inspiration available on ui8.com for fresh Bubble developers who may not like the interface and cannot create games using Bubble.
The Bubble frontend performance has a poor loading speed; users would've to wait a long time before the index page/home page loads - it can be so annoying!
According to my research, I discovered that thousands of people complain about Bubble servers. A few developers have specific instructions from their clients about where their data is stored; Truth be told, only if you can break the bank by purchasing the most prestigious Bubble pricing tier - your app databases are stored in the United States.

Pros/Advantages of Bubble

Bubble is quite economical to be frank with you. Hiring a developer to get the job done seems very expensive. Say you have an idea you want to share with the world but, you don't have money to fund the idea or you have no prior experience in coding, you can simply use Bubble to achieve your goal before your idea becomes outdated.
Bubble is very agile in the sense that developers can easily create applications within a short period of time without having to code anything from scratch. Bubble has done all the groundwork for you; all you simply need to do is drag and drop elements where you want them to be, and it's that simple.
Bubble allows for the creation of versatile products. Users can easily make changes to their apps as well as updating the apps with new features without having to break the bank by hiring a developer or spending hours writing codes. On top of that, Bubble has an enhanced productivity level which ensures smooth workflows while your apps are being built.

Cons/Disadvantages of Bubble

Bubblehas has limitations

Although there are thousands of things we could actually do with Bubble, this idea totally depends on our mindset - firstly, we need to convey the idea then would know whether Bubble is the right tool to use. For instance, if you're planning on making a project that involves creating a gaming app, I'm so sorry - Bubble can't do that for you. And, in some cases you might want to combine other third-party services to get the most of Bubble.

Limited Customisation Options

For a no-code tool like Bubble, there are a limited number of things you could actually do. Although Bubble's comes with a handful of templates, and design tools, sometimes you might just want to be unique, but the option is available for all Bubble developers.

Anyone looking to use Bubble to its full potential must dedicate time to learn the Bubble interface, else you might just get overwhelmed with the entire interface because it contains so many different panels. To help level up your Bubble skill, you can simply visit blogs or follow video classes that other Bubble developers have published anywhere online.

Why DAOs Need The Tool

Interestingly, No-Code platforms like Bubble doesn’t require extensive programming time and effort and it has easy to use building blocks that enables users to build fully functional apps even without writing a single in of code or prior experience in programming. DAOs need a tool like bubble because it’ll help them reduce the cost to build applications.

On Bubble, updates and tweaks are also made quickly and cheaply, it only requires a few number of clicks. Building in No-Code ranges in cost from free if you choose to do it yourself! Equally, customizing an app from scratch will cost around $16,000-$32,000 with traditional agencies.

With Bubble, DAOs can build their apps without code, not only that, Bubble’s flexibility to use templates is exceptional, plug-ins are welcome on Bubble. Again, DAOs need Bubble because it allows for the integration of third party APIs. The API integration may include, authentication providers, and other data sources, payment methods, etc.

For instance, a DAO could develop a content publishing app where their articles will be uploaded for the masses to consume. With Bubble, DAOs can integrate payment systems in their piece so that individuals would pay a token before they can access it! This is a smart strategy that can be leveraged by DAOs to generate revenue for their community.

Lastly, DAOs needs Bubble because it can exponentially help them to grow an audience base, improve products within their ecosystem, and add unique features to their apps through the use of overlay coding and APIs. Bubble is also very easy to start with!

Why Is It Important For Them

DAOs Will Have Full Control:

Speed: Another reason why this tool is important to DAOs is that deployment of Bubble apps is very fast. Bubble allows for quick development and with the use of add-ons and customized templates, a fully functional app can be developed in just a couple of weeks. Writing codes from scratch takes a long time, decentralized autonomous organizations can shorten their product feedback loop considerably. Thankfully, Bubble can be used by DAOs or startups looking for their first can build a testable product, capture feedback and tweak their product much more quickly. With Bubble, you can test business ideas in weeks rather than months, learn from the tests and iterate at greater speed.

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Disclaimer: The content is for informational purposes only, may include the author's personal opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of littlefish Foundation.

Copy.ai - AI content generator

Author: Frank Chukwurah

Date: 12/03/2023

I am thrilled to write about one of the most prominent and groundbreaking AI tools known as Copy.ai - if this AI tool is completely foreign to you, it's fine! I will give you a lens into what the tool is, and why many people from all walks of life are leveraging it already.

First off, Copy.ai made its debut some time ago in 2020, and the AI tool has revolutionized the world significantly. Copy.ai exists to help businesses, and individuals to generate digital copies for their brands. It is also worth mentioning that Copy.ai has a built-in plagiarism checker - fascinating!

What The Tool Does

We all know how much time it takes to develop content for websites, advertisements, social media posts, or blogs - sometimes, it can be very overwhelming. Copy.ai helps businesses and individuals to create stunning website copies, blogs, emails, sales descriptions, social media captions, and sales copy - just to name a few. Unlike other AI content generator out there, Copy.ai is very fast, and efficient; it carries operations within minutes.

Where It Can Be Used

Thankfully, Copy.ai can be used in almost every sphere of our today's life; the areas in which this tool can be used effectively include the following:

Copy.ai can be used for marketing purposes: For example,say you just launched your newly written ebook titled "how to be relevant in the advent of Web3." This powerful tool can help you establish better connections with customers, and it can also help in market analysis - this way, you'll have a peek of who your product will resonate with.
Search Engine Optimization: Copy.ai can help webmasters working to generate meta descriptions for a blockchain or Web3 websites. Just so you know, the tool can generate blog posts with rich keywords; Copy.ai will not only, but significantly improve your SEO strategy, and your overall keyword research performance. The tool can help organizations carry out informed keyword research to help them reach the peak of search engines like Google - so doing, individuals can easily find brands online by using specific keyword phrases.
Product Description: Without breaking the bank, you can use this AI tool to generate an awesome description for your products to grab the attention of potential buyers.

How To Use It

To begin with, you'll need to create a Copy.ai account; they have a free 7-day trial, while the paid plan goes for $30/month. You can sign up with your Google Account if you wish. So, once you've successfully created your account, you'll be redirected to the workspace.
The Toolbar is located at the left side corner, here, you can access a handful of functionalities - browse through the AI toolbar, you can generate blog posts ideas, Instagram hooks, emails, sales copy, and what have you.
You can also select a pre-made template if you wish. To generate content with this tool, simply enter any topic "Why is web3 the future?" then, choose a tone, now hit the "Create Content Button." If you're not satisfied with the output, you can still create more copy, then save them.

To get the most out of the tool, it's ideal to use long descriptions for the product; keep hitting the "Create Content Button" to generate more output, then save them to your library.

How DAOs Can Use It

For the greatest benefits, DAOs can use Copy.ai to get insights into individual preferences, whilst offering a better, and more personalized experience.
DAOs can use Copy.ai to make informed and faster business decisions to skyrocket their organization. DAOs can use the tool to reduce operational costs, whilst increasing organizational efficiency.
DAOs can use Copy.ai to generate an enormous amount of data for generating leads, and a customer base.

How It Can Be Useful For DAOs

Copy.ai can help a DAO grow to an expert level by offering intelligent support, and new opportunities for individuals to earn.
Copy.ai, when leveraged properly, could increase revenue as well as maximize sales opportunities. The emergence of this AI tool has helped a lot of businesses, and individuals reap major rewards.
Another useful driving force of Copy.ai is the fact that DAOs can use the keyword generator to find relevant keywords that'll help them reach the level of their competitors.

My Opinion About Copy.ai

The tool has a user-friendly interface; the content it generates is of high quality, although the AI-generated content can't be trusted always.

When working with AI content generator tools like Copy.ai, there are a few things we should keep in mind. The tool is generally awesome, perhaps we still need to verify the generated content against other sources. Oftentimes, AI-generated content contains an outdated piece of information, or misleading message - in some instances, one can't use them for commercial purposes.

To be on the safe side, be sure to check whether the content Copy.ai generated for you is valid before you share it for people to consume so there won't be any form of distrust in the media. On the other hand, misinformation can also pose cyber security concerns.

So, there are a few places to compare your generated Copy.ai content - Google search engine is undoubtedly one of the world's safest sources of information gathering. Secondly, conducting personal research on the topic is another way to get the best results possible.

They have tons of tutorials and workflows to help new users get started as quickly, so they can follow along. With this powerful tool, you can easily generate Instagram hooks, emails, blogs, and Twitter threads that'll resonate with your followers. I'd recommend Copy.ai to anyone looking to get his jobs done quickly.

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Jasper AI

Author: Emir Olgun

Date: 16 March 2023

Introduction

Jasper AI is an ai copywriter and it writes content surprisingly well. It can be used to write social media content, articles, e-commerce description, and product features, e-mails, and even simplified text that aims to explain something to a child. Jasper can also improve already written content, get the key points from a provided text, and detect your tone from the text you have written. As can be seen, Jasper AI is an extremely versatile tool.

How to Use

Jasper AI is a paid service but you can try it for free for five days and cancel the subscription with no fees. If you want to continue using it, the Boss Mode, which is like an individual version, starting price is 59 American dollars for 50,000 words per month and it can go up to 600 American dollars for 700,000 words. If you want even higher words per month, they offer custom pricing. The business version has a custom plan and pricing policy which requires the custormer to contact the Jasper team. There is also a chrome extension for Jasper.

The main page has a tutorial for using the tool. You can try to generate a blog post, a paragraph, a caption for social media, etc. Also, there is an ai chat. You can directly ask for what you want to do and how you want to do it and it works very well.

This is the Templates page. Here you can find different services Jasper offers and generate what you want easily. For example, when you ask for a tweet, you write what it is about and the tone of voice. The tone of voice is not a list of choices, you can write whatever you want there and you can combine different tones like “Excited but serious”.

When I tried to generate a tweet about Gimbalabs announcing their PPBL course in 2023, Jasper generated the following tweets.

The Prompt: Updates about Gimbalabs' 43rd weekly report which includes announcement of the first PPBL course in 2023. Gimbalabs is a DAO whose purpose is to educate people about Cardano Blockchain and train technical people for smart contract development and web3 development. Mainly people learn how to run a Cardano Node on their computers, programming languages of Haskell and Plutus.

Results:

We just released our 43rd Weekly Report, and it's full of exciting news! Ready to hear the best one? We will be launching our first PPBL (Participatory Project-Based Learning) course in 2023! #Gimbalabs #Cardano #Blockchain #PPBL
A big milestone for Gimbalabs: we are now offering a PPBL course next year! You won't want to miss out on this amazing opportunity to learn Cardano Blockchain and its programming languages. #Gimbalabs #Cardano #Blockchain
Get ready to launch yourself into the world of smart contracts & web3 development with our upcoming PPBL course @ Gimbalabs. Sign up now and become an expert on Cardano Blockchain in no time! #Gimbalabs #Cardano #Blockchain
We can't believe it's true - but we are officially announcing that our first ever PPBL course is coming next year! So prepare your laptops and get ready to level up your blockchain game with us @ Gimbalabs. 🤩#Gimbalabs #Cardano #Blockchain
Ready for the biggest announcement yet? Our 43rd weekly report is out and it brings good news - yes, you read that right! Our first ever PPBL course starts in 2023 - join us at Gimbalabs & start learning about Cardano blockchain immediately! 🤓#Gimbalabs #Cardano #Blockchain
Our weekly report includes an important announcement: our first ever PPBL course starting in 2023 at Gimbalabls. Get ready for an immersive journey into smart contract & web3 development! 🤗#Gimbalabs #Cardano#Blockchain
Are you interested in learning more about Cardano Blockchain? Then look no further - join us @gimmarbls for our upcoming PPBL course starting next year and become a certified blockchain expert. 🤩#Gimmalabs#Cardano#Blockchain
It's time to take your curiosity beyond limits with our upcoming PPBL Course starting in 2023. Let's dive deep into the world of Haskell & Plutus programming languages and understand Smart Contract Development like never before. 💻#Gimmalabs#Cardano#Blockchain
Did someone say CardanO Blockchain?? Well, here we come - introducing our first ever PPBL Course which will help you understand this distributed ledger technology like a pro! Learn from experts today at Gimmalbs 👩‍💻👨‍💻#Gimmalbs#CardanO#Blockchain
It's official: Our weekly report has been released, containing news about the upcoming PPBL Course next year at Gimmarbls. Become an expert on CardanO Blockchain technology with us – sign up now!! 🎉#Gimmablbs#CardanOblockchain

As you can see, it is not perfect, you need to adjust some mistakes like “CardanO” but it has the potential to seriously save time.

Another example is trying the Tone Detector mode.

Prompt: Agora aims to solve an important blocker for most people which is setting up the infrastructure of the on-chain organizations. The Agora Library can be very useful for new and existing DAOs and can be used by other projects for more detailed and tailored governing infrastructures.

Result:

The tone of this content is helpful and informative.
Informative and helpful.

How DAOs Can Use Jasper

Jasper copywriter aims to shorten the process of writing and unblock writer’s block. DAOs generate internal documents, write proposals and most importantly, DAOs need to use social media effectively. Jasper is designed to be of use for these tasks. I believe this tool is one of the best there is and it should be used by the DAOs even though the pricing is a little bit high.

Conclusion

Jasper is a very useful tool. The team behind Jasper seems very active and they offer a lot of documents and sessions about how to effectively use Jasper. This tool is very versatile and very effective. I believe the price of 49 USD is worth it.

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Penelope AI

Author: Oncu Erge Morkoc

Date: 13 March 2023

Introduction

This is a markdown editor that uses machine learning to make writing simply easy. With its clever AI technology, writing your thesis, blog posts, tweets or stories becomes fairly efficient and quick. In principle, seeks to improve writing efficiency and intuitiveness by utilizing the capabilities of machine learning to understand and support the user in real-time.

How Does It Work?

heavily relies on a machine learning structure that is trained to analyze large sets of text input and provide the best answer that it could.

In this sense, it looks like any other type of markdown editor because it shares some of the common features with them. The biggest similarity with other AI-powered markdown editors is the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms. These algorithms allow AI to analyze labeled data and predict patterns and complete the incomplete input in writing.

Scope

Impressively, may be in use for several of your needs. It can be utilized for academic, professional, and personal purposes. It helps to reduce your writing time very effectively and it allows you to shape or reshape users' writing styles. One may choose to write in an academic, literature, friendly, persuasive, or informative tone. All you have to do is write down what is on your mind. Penelope assist you on the way greatly.

As a trial, we tested Its capabilities by asking it to write an article about itself. The results were quite impressive and unexpected because its AI works rather fast.

After following the Article Generator link on the website, you can simply create an article with Penelope's AI.

The following paragraph is taken from Penelope's article generator.

"How Penelope analyzes and categorizes data Penelope uses machine learning algorithms to analyze and categorize data. The algorithms are trained on a large dataset of labeled data, which enables the system to recognize patterns and make accurate predictions.The system can categorize data based on various parameters, such as sentiment, topic, tone, and intent. This allows businesses to gain insights into customer behavior, identify trends, and improve their products or services. Penelope's algorithms are constantly learning and improving based on new data inputs. This ensures that the system stays up-to-date with the latest trends and patterns in the industry. Overall, Penelope's ability to analyze and categorize data provides businesses with a powerful tool for making informed decisions and improving their operations."

Apart from automated content generation, it can be used to boost your productivity as well.

Its auto-complete feature is very robust and works within the context of the text. Not only that, it is available to the use with a stroke of mouse/touch.

The same thing applies to its words and phrases suggestions. Instead of throwing some obscure words from the dusty corners of dictionaries, it analyzes the context of users' content and puts forward recommendations that would both suit users' needs and reduce the time spent on this particular task.

Finally, we should mention its other core feature which is its integration with popular platforms. Penelope also eliminates the need for carrying your content from platform to platform because it is integrated with widely popular platforms such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.

Conclusion

Its Place in DAOs

It can easily be said that Penelope may be tailored for DAOs' needs. The world of blockchain and DAOs sometimes can overwhelm the people of the internet if they do not have expertise in the field or they do not have an interest in it yet. However, with such a tool, DAOs can increase their reach because the content they create can be more easily readable. DAOs may produce easy-to-read, creative, and exciting material while enjoying Penelope's assistance. More importantly, they can achieve this without stretching their resources thin because of Penelope's user-friendly interface and its efficiency-boosting AI.

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WriteSonic

Author: Emir Olgun

Date: 13 March 2023

Introduction

is an AI platform for writing content. It has more than 65 features for different platforms and aims for users to crate high quality content in a short time. It is built on generative AI models. This AI is trained to generate content like ads and blog posts. With this tool, a writer can generate content that follows a specific brand's writing style, industry-specific content, SEO-optimized content and long articles.

Features

WriteSonic can be used for a wide variety of tasks. Some of these tasks are Facebook ads, Quora answers, tweets and Instagram captions.

How to Use

After signing-in you can try the free version which gives 10,000 words.

The highlighted area shows the categories. Choose the category you want and then you will enter the content generation page.

You can put the topic prompt, tone of voice, some keywords, language and the length of the content you want. For the example I tried, AI generated three outputs:

AI writing tools have rapidly become a popular and often necessary tool for content creators. These tools such as Jasper, WriteSonic, and ChatGPT can increase productivity, save time, and improve the quality of content. One of the significant advantages of AI writing tools is that they can create content that is both SEO and conversation optimized, making it easier for businesses to reach their target audience. These tools can help writers generate ideas, develop outlines, and even write entire articles with a click of a button. However, there are also some disadvantages to using AI writing tools. One of the most significant drawbacks is that the content created by these tools may lack a human touch. AI writing tools can only analyze data and create content based on that data. They cannot understand emotions, sarcasm, or irony, which can lead to poorly written content that lacks personality. Moreover, these tools may also struggle with complex topics and may not be able to write in a way that is suitable for the target audience. Another disadvantage of using AI writing tools is that they can be expensive. Some tools require a monthly subscription fee, which can add up over time, especially for small businesses or individuals. Additionally, there is always the risk of plagiarism when using AI writing tools. These tools may unintentionally copy content from other sources, leading to legal issues and damage to the reputation of the creator. In conclusion, AI writing tools can be a valuable asset for writers, but they also come with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. It is important to carefully consider the pros and cons before deciding to use these tools. Ultimately, it is up to the writer to determine whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and whether the content produced by AI writing tools aligns with their goals and values.
AI writing tools have revolutionized the world of content creation, making it faster, easier, and more efficient than ever before. These tools offer a wealth of advantages, such as increased productivity, enhanced creativity, and greater accuracy. For instance, Jasper is an AI-powered writing tool that can generate high-quality content within minutes. Its advanced algorithms can analyze data and produce custom-tailored content that meets specific requirements. Similarly, WriteSonic is another AI writing tool that can create compelling content for blogs, social media posts, and marketing copy. Its intuitive interface and user-friendly features make it easy to use for both novices and experts. ChatGPT is another AI-powered writing tool that can generate natural language text based on user input. By analyzing patterns and trends in data, it can generate content that is both informative and engaging. However, AI writing tools also have their fair share of disadvantages. One of the most significant drawbacks is the lack of human touch and creativity. While these tools can generate content quickly, they often lack the nuances and subtleties of human writing. Additionally, they may not be able to capture the tone or voice of a brand or individual as effectively as a human writer can. Another disadvantage is the potential for errors and inaccuracies. AI writing tools rely on algorithms and data analysis, which can sometimes lead to mistakes or inaccuracies in the final output. Lastly, AI writing tools can be expensive, and their cost may not be feasible for small businesses or individuals with limited budgets. In conclusion, AI writing tools offer a range of advantages and disadvantages that must be carefully considered before adopting them. While they can enhance creativity, productivity, and accuracy, they may also lack the human touch and creativity that is essential for effective content creation. Ultimately, it is up to individual users to decide whether the benefits of these tools outweigh the potential drawbacks.
Artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools have revolutionized the way content is created and marketed in the digital age. With programs like Jasper, WriteSonic, and ChatGPT, users can generate high-quality content for their websites, blogs, and social media platforms in a matter of minutes. The biggest advantage of using these AI writing tools is the significant time and effort savings they offer. With the help of AI writing tools, writers can focus on other important tasks while the tool generates content for them. These tools are also highly accurate and can produce content that is both SEO and conversation optimized, which can help drive traffic to your website and increase conversions. However, there are also some disadvantages to using AI writing tools. While they are highly effective, they lack the creativity and personal touch that come with human-written content. Additionally, AI writing tools may not always understand the nuances of language and context, which can lead to errors or misunderstandings. Another concern is the potential for these tools to be used to create fake or misleading content, which can have serious consequences for both individuals and society as a whole. Overall, AI writing tools like Jasper, WriteSonic, and ChatGPT are incredibly useful for creating high-quality content quickly and efficiently. However, it is important to be aware of their limitations and potential pitfalls to ensure that they are used ethically and responsibly. As with any technology, it is up to users to determine how best to leverage the benefits of AI writing tools while minimizing their drawbacks.

As you can see from the examples, WriteSonic can generate content with structure.

Conclusion

WriteSonic seems like a very useful tool that can be used for very different contents from social media to article generation. DAOs can use WriteSonic for generating tweets, instagram posts and internal articles and reports. The verification of generated content's informations should be done.

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AI-Lawyer

Author: Oncu Erge Morkoc

Date: 05 March 2023

Introduction

AI-Lawyer is a tool to provide legal services to ease up legal processing by document comparison, summarization, and legal document generation. It is developed to almost completely surpass the need for an attorney.

How does it work?

At first sight, it is a fairly sophisticated artificial intelligence tool, which may be a very inexpensive and user-friendly way to reduce the need for legal counseling. Several legal procedures can be simplified for users who are not experts in the area.

AI-Lawyer is enabled to analyze various topics within large sets of legal documents and report potential legal problems for the users, simplify legal terminology for non-experts, and ease monitoring the legal terms of other websites. Also, AI-Lawyer promises automation in low-value legal duties.

Scope

AI-Lawyer shines where the tedious processes are being streamlined. Although it has grand claims about its capabilities, it does not claim that it will replace real-time lawyers. Most interestingly, it offers an AI-powered chatbot that gives the feeling of a legal conversation on small legal issues such as contract clauses or taxes with a counselor. It provides legal advice, answers legal questions in real-time and drafts legal documents.

Conclusion

AI Lawyer seems to be a great leap in the field of artificial intelligence and it is definitely worth checking up on its progress through time. Legal counseling may be quite costly and sometimes quite a daunting task to attend by regular individuals. Its cost-effective structure and easy-to-use interface are promising features to admire. However, it might be better suited for legal professionals rather than non-expert individuals. The website is already up and running which allowed me to try out some of the feauters. Users may already use the chat-bot feature without upgrading their account to premium. Within this free feauture, given questions were answered in a concise and easy to read format by the artificial intelligence. For instance, I asked a question about wrongful termination in a workplace and AI was able to procure an answer in a matter of seconds with a quite useful roadmap. Depending on users' legal predicament, legal chatbot and other features can be used easily. Finally, with such a tool, lawyers can increase their productivity and efficiency in a blink of an eye while focusing on the matters that require the expert touch.

Its place in DAOs

One should be mindful of how recently this tool was developed. The amount of info regarding its mechanics and scope is not sufficient to utter a definitive view about it. Nevertheless, from the preliminary research, it can be said that it has a potential for the DAOs. It is beneficial for DAOs to keep an eye out for the AI-Lawyer. As it claims, it offers fast, easy, and accessible legal services for the digital world. Which may be utilized in a way that may benefit DAO projects before their execution. Inherently it does not adhere to business hours and it can be reached from all around the globe. Which makes it a perfect tool for DOAs to utilize its legal insight.

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GENERATIVE PRE-TRAINED TRANSFORMER (ChatGPT)

Author: Frank Chukwurah

Date: 09/03/2023

Can I be real with you? Artificial Intelligence is one of the best projects that mankind has ever witnessed. Since the inception of AI, human beings have literally put less efforts into some parts of their lives - from AI marketplaces to AI writing tools to AI content generators, all have played a significant role in almost every sphere of life.

Just so you know; not all AI projects were successful, as a matter of fact, nearly 85% AI models have failed over the past few years. Interestingly, AI has helped individuals from all walks of life as well as businesses thriving to go from rock bottom to the top to reach their full potential.

This article is centered on ChatGPT, everybody is talking about this powerful AI tool. If you don't already know what ChatGPT is, you're in the right place. Millions of creators across the continent are already leveraging this viral AI tool.

Before I further my writing, I'd like to digress a little bit.

For the sake of clarity, GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer." ChatGPT is a blockbuster bot developed by OpenAI. GPT debuted in November 2022, and it has been making waves ever since; the list of what ChatGPT does is almost endless.

In my opinion, ChatGPT is undoubtedly the most prominent AI tool I've seen so far, from writing eye-catching emails to blogs to codes - just to mention a few. ChatGPT seems to be the only AI tool that challenges Google's search engine - that's insane!

It might interest you to know that the entire world is obsessed with ChatGPT right now! Just a few months after its debut, it amass over 100 million users, and it has become a dominant example of an AI content generating tool.

Detailed Guide for Using ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI tool, but we the users can command it to do exactly what we want. Below, you'll see some examples of good prompt strategies that'll help you get the best possible responses.

From Linux terminal to tour guide or relationship coach - ChatGPT can play all those roles.

ChatGPT prompts always have the same structure:

ChatGPT receives a prompt - what role the AI should play.
Secondly, the prompt state what information the user provided, then what ChatGPT should do with the prompt.
A rough suggestion that'll guide the AI.
Lastly, the user/developer inserts his first instruction in a quotation marks.

Like this:

Act as a Blockchain Marketer

Your job is to create strategies for running a successful social media campaign focused on introducing Web3 to women in the society. You will engage with the audience by introducing the opportunities Web3 can bring to people, especially women with no prior experience. My first request is "How can women be relevant in the Web3 revolution?"

Act as a Web Design Consultant

I will give some insights into a brand looking to design a responsive website for their AI products. Now, your own role is to suggest the must-have features of the website, what design principles could enhance user experience, and what coding languages, and website development tools could be needed to setup the website. My first request is "I need help creating an online marketplace for AI products"

We have another example called chained prompting.

The Chained Prompting mechanism is one of the best ways to command ChatGPT to do exactly what you desire; chained prompting is the process of breaking down complex tasks into different intermediate steps - this way, the AI will generate a concise, customized, and perhaps better results.

Modify Output Say you want to prepare a piece of content for all your social media pages such as Reddit, Twitter, or LinkedIn. You can seamlessly tell ChatGPT to adapt to the tone, and description of formatting for the target channel.

For example, formatting a tweet for Twitter

"I want you to generate a couple of Twitter threads related to Web3. Let the maximum length of each thread not exceed 280 characters. Each thread should be concise as possible as it'll be tailored to individuals with no prior experience in Web3."

You can use this as a template for other social media networks.

Format Output Just so you know; GPT needs a good formatting hints to produce better responses. You can tell the AI to format the responses in a special order. Such as adding lists, headings, bold, or italic tags as well as tables.

For example, "I want you to make a list of the top 10 best AI tools that will change the world in 2023, write a heading, and a few paragraphs. I want the document in Markdown format."

Having done all this; proceed to create your account so you can access ChatGPT - you can use your Google Account if you wish; once your account has been set up, you'll be redirected to the GPT workspace. The image below is the ChatGPT environment.

The basic version of ChatGPT is totally free to use at this point; according to my research, OpenAI spends close to $3 million every month to keep ChatGPT running on the internet. Progressively, OpenAI recently announced ChatGPT Plus - a paid version of the software. The company plans to charge $20 per month when it enters the market. Truth be told; the paid version would guarantee access to new sophisticated features, and faster responses.

Detailed Guide on How Reliable ChatGPT Information Is

OpenAI has acknowledged as much, in some cases, ChatGPT would write applauding piece of contents for you, and also , nonsensical answers could be included in the results it generates. Sometimes ChatGPT's results can be misleading, and inaccurate. Although, it gives correct answers to non-complex questions you may throw at it.

Since the launch of the tool, many people including myself have tried to experiment, and play around with the software to see what good it can bring. To be honest with you, the chatbot is exceptional.

Just like the famous law of gravity; whatever goes up must come down. That being said; your input determines your output. The accuracy of information generated by this AI tool cannot always be trusted.

Some creator describe GPT as a source of inspiration - the software was trained on a vast amount of information, so it basically has knowledge of almost any question you may throw at it.

How to Verify ChatGPT Responses

When using this tool, it is not a good idea to work with the results without checking the response against other sources. ChatGPT taking over Google search engine has been a controversial topic for months now.

Google search engine is still one of the most reliable sources of information, and its one of the best tools to use when comparing ChatGPT responses.

Sometime ago in late 2022, Wikipedia was my main source of information for my CCTV project.

On the other hand, podcasts, and original research articles can help significantly to compare ChatGPT responses on specific questions.

Some Possible Problems One Encounter While Using This Tool

As there are many advantages of the AI game-changer - there are also many hurdles users face while using this Chatbot.

A few days ago, I was reading some messages on my Discord app; boom I stumbled upon a message "ChatGPT is down," This AI tool has become a global sensation, and many people from all walks of life want to use it.

Many people attempting to use the software at the same time usually cause the server to run slowly; and sometimes it will be down for several hours - if you're patient enough, you'd have to wait for a long time before you can access it.
The demand for ChatGPT is so high, OpenAI often takes the software offline for maintenance, and this has been happening repeatedly since its launch.
Just so you know; the chatbot is not always 100% correct, so users need to be on the look out for these possible errors. Momentarily, the chatbot could provide obsolete results when a user inputs an incorrect prompt - ChatGPT is a programmed piece of software; keep in mind, if you do not input correct prompts, be sure to get incorrect responses that could even get you frustrated anyway.

Why DAOs Need This Tool?

Crafting Onboarding Materials: Many decentralized autonomous organizations take their onboarding process very seriously; for example, DIA DAO - anyone looking to become a DIA copywriter must ace the DIA copywriting test. DAOs can use ChatGPT to generate onboarding materials for new members or employees that are keen to share their knowledge with the community; the onboarding materials may include handbooks, training video, documentation, and more!
Keyword Research:

This practice will enable DAOs to reach a wider range of audience, like-minded individuals, and unrelenting talents that will bootstrap the growth of the community thereby enhancing their connection potential.

Writing, Debugging, and Explain Codes: We know how challenging writing codes can be! Human beings make mistake in coding and in relationships; even a professional programmer is bound to run into a few debugs in his codes. DAOs need this tool because it also saves the cost of hiring a programmer if the job isn't too complex for the AI to handle.

Another captivating reason why DAOs need this tool is because it can help them to easily narrow down problem and loopholes within their code; ChatGPT will help DAOs to save time while coding and it can also be promoted to figure out a bug in a write code.

Why Is This Tool Important For DAOs?

Meta Descriptions:

ChatGPT is an important tool for DAOs, it plays a significant role when it comes to the generation of meta description for DAOs websites, blogs, or landing page - by using the correct prompt, GPT will describe your web page to suit your needs!

Meta descriptions usually act as a form of advertisement for a webpage; having a well-written meta description will entice users to click on the link - ChatGPT is important for DAOs because it assists them to easily generate effective meta descriptions that concisely depict what the DAO offers.

Generate Content In Multiple Languages:

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are governed by a community of different individuals residing in different parts of the worlds; these individuals participate in DAO governance and decision-making process - But hey, these people speak different languages and I've seen DAOs that have multiple language channels on their Discord. Of course, we have other amazing tools like Google Translate - but writing in one language and translating for the other is just not so convenient plus, contexts and language-specific tones could be lost in the long run.

ChatGPT is an important tool for DAOs because it enables them to create content in multiple languages for their community members who doesn't speak or understand certain languages. French? Check. Portuguese? Check. Spanish, and much more! ChatGPT can be promoted to write a message about the upcoming events or announcements in multiple languages. GPT is an incredibly useful tool for DAOs.

In addition to my writeup, ChatGPT seems to be struggling with more complex topics or ideas. Since the project is still in it's early stage, the responses might not really suit commercial needs. And, the risk of plagiarism is very high. In some cases, two persons could use the same prompts unknowningly - the chatbot will automatically produce the same responses.

In addition to my writeup, ChatGPT seems to be struggling with more complex topics or ideas. Since the project is still in it's early stage, the responses might not really suit commercial needs. And, the risk of plagiarism is very high. In some cases, two persons could use the same prompts unknowningly - the chatbot will automatically produce the same responses.

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References/Websites

Iris.AI

Author: Harsha Gullapalli

Date: March 13th, 2023

App Summary
Features
Use Cases
Pricing
Social Links
Notes from the Author

1. App Summary

Iris.Ai is an ai app that utilizes neural network technology to help researchers process and extract insights from a large number of scientific papers and patents. It helps find and organize information, summarize key points, and even automate some tasks.

2. Features

To understand the features of Iris.Ai, a basic understanding of the scientific research process is necessary. The below process diagram shows the steps involved:

Iris.ai helps with the second step, which is background research. With the ever-increasing scientific research repositories, searching, filtering, analyzing, extracting, and summarizing information becomes quite a task. AI can play a crucial role in significantly cutting down the amount of time needed for this step.

With that being said, the following features are offered by iris.ai.

Content-Based Search: Ability to automatically search and categorize research papers based on one or more papers/patents of your choosing.
Context Filtering: Creating custom context descriptions of approximately 50 to 100 words each allows for efficient filtering of research papers. Each description is matched against every article in the content list and can be used for inclusion or exclusion purposes. This feature allows for a Venn diagram-like approach to filtering information and simplifying the research process.
Data Filtering: Data filtering is a way to find specific information from a large group of documents. The official website gives the following examples, "You might want to find out which of the 500 documents in front of you talks about steel with a tensile strength between 600-650 MPa. Or, you might want to know if any of the papers in PubMed talk about Ibuprofen causing nausea in more than 5% of people. With advanced filtering, you can find the exact information you need and filter out the rest."
Data Extraction: Fetching and linking all the key data from research documents into a tabular, machine-readable, systematic format. Iris.ai claims to cut the time for this by 99% or more and with a 90% accuracy.
Machine-generated Summaries: Summarizing one or more scientific documents with a customizable word count.
Document-set Analysis: The Workspace's document set analysis is a tool that provides an overview of the content of a set of documents (up to 20,000 docs). Users can see the literature list's topic groups and the most important and unusual words and their synonyms. This aids in selecting groups for inclusion and exclusion, without the risk of overlooking relevant documents.
Monitoring: By setting up automated searches at regular intervals, users can receive notifications when new articles fitting their specific inclusion/exclusion criteria, such as clinical data, become available. This tool is particularly useful for fields requiring ongoing reviews of relevant literature.

Use Cases

For this section, I’ll be focusing particularly on how DAOs can use the tool. The central use case for DAOs is ‘Informed Decision Making’.

Example 1: A DAO focused on climate activism has to allocate a significant amount of funds from its treasury to particular causes. How will they decide on these causes? The fund distribution team can use Iris.ai to quickly go through numerous research papers and their summaries, helping them identify the most important factors related to climate impact. With this knowledge, the community can then determine how to distribute the funds effectively.

Example 2: A DAO founding team aims to make crucial decisions regarding tokenomics. How should they proceed? The founding team can utilize Iris.ai to obtain a comprehensive overview of the available research from various fields, such as psychology, tokenomics, DAO-related ethics, and more. Next, they can refine their research by excluding irrelevant studies and incorporating pertinent ones. Finally, they can distill and summarize the essential factors involved in making informed decisions on tokenomics.

Pricing

Notes from the Author

Iris is an extremely useful tool that can save long hours of manual work in the field of research. Considering the subscription price, it makes the most sense for academic researchers and legal professionals as opposed to casual science enthusiasts.

Miro Tips and Tricks

This post will talk about some tips and tricks you may need while using Miro. If you are new to Miro or trying to expand your knowledge, you might want to check here. If there is anything we are missing from this post please let us know from Discord so we can edit this page. Alternatively, you can always edit yourself as an action.

Let's get started.

Zooming in

When you select an object and press Ctrl+2 it will fully zoom into the selected object. This can save time instead of zooming frantically. In the picture below, the upper part of it, you may see the object in a very small scale. When you select it press Ctrl+2, the lower part of the picture will be the result.

Connect Objects

When you click to the dots on the side of an object it will create an empty duplicate and connect these two objects. Whichever side you select, it will create a duplicate on that side. This is valid for almost all object types.

Change Line Type

One of Miro’s best features is that you can connect any multiple objects with a line. You can change this line type by simply right clicking on it. Also Miro will remember your selection and next time you are drawing a line it will use your last setting.

Bridging Objects

You can add a bridge from one object to another. This will create a connection between two objects and it will put an arrow on the first selected object. When you press this arrow it will take you to your desired object. Shortcut for this feature is Ctrl+K

Grouping Objects

You can add multiple objects to a group. With this you can move these objects as a single body. You can always reverse this.

Opening Mini Map

There is a toggle for a mini map on Miro (yes, like in the games). Pressing M will open the map so that you can see on which part of the board you are. You can even navigate from this map.

Using Shortcuts

There are some more shortcuts that might help you be more efficient while using Miro.

Setting Start View

Normally, Miro board opens from an area where you last closed. You can change this behavior by setting start view. When you select it, the board will open from the place you will have selected.

Training

We believe this will be a good way to learn more about Miro and Littlefish. Simply go to the board and create your Ikigai by following guidelines outlined under ‘Get Started with Littlefish Foundation (LFF)’.