AI use is creeping into our daily work cycle, whether we like it or not.
even my company is actively measuring my AI usage as part of performance reviews now too.
so here are 6 ways i use AI as someone who works in social media and content:
1. automated reports
no longer do i have to write lengthy reports or pull data directly from sprout social and other tools and type them all up. now i just get claude to do that for me and send it to me to copy and paste into the report.
i sometimes use grok to get further context on what’s happening sentiment wise for competitors directly on twitter.
2. competitor watch
i now have a scheduled task that runs daily and looks at our direct competitors to see what they posted in the last 24hrs, writes a summary of it and then builds a narrative of what they’re doing over time and gives me recommendations on where to exploit those narratives from our side (if relevant).
3. writing
the most obvious use case but i started with trying to reverse engineer our brand voice by feeding it tons of content to understand how we write and sound. i then created a prompt for the voice so multiple writers can come out with similar sounding pieces each time, especially as we sometimes get given tech based content directly from the tech team themselves.
i’ve also created prompts based around different pieces of content and how they should be structured (e.g. product launches, partnership announcements, research articles, thought leadership, etc).
this has now left our team with content drafts that are ~70% done and we can come in to edit and rework parts to make it more “human” and up the quality.
i also use it to summarize twitter spaces or any other kind of livestream much more quickly, as it saves me having to go back and watch/listen to a whole hour of conversation and type up the key points.
using it for general writing (first drafts only) definitely saves the most time currently out of all the use cases i’ve found so far.
4. ideation
aligned with the above but being able to get ideas beyond my own experience and imagination helps speed up the initial process of creating a campaign, writing content, etc.
5. campaign assets
i’ve even vibe coded a whole “mini-app” that was used in a social campaign then given it to the product team to formally build it and make it more secure to use and it was done in less than a week vs the usual turnaround time. also doing a mockup graphic for the design team to understand what i want more easily and save time going through draft after draft.
6. summarize meeting notes
i have a horrendous memory and will forget things instantly so this has been a real life saver for me. having the ability to pull out key things i’ve not noted down and be able to implement them without having to go back and ask is great. it also helps for when you can’t attend a meeting but can still get everything from the transcript/automated notes.
what other ways are you using AI in your daily flow?