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Speaker: Barbara Nonas, Award-Winning PR Strategist & Communications Leader
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It started several months ago. I was writing a Gmail when grey words mysteriously appeared ahead of my typing. “Hmmm, must be some new functionality,” I thought. Then: “Hey, this just might be interesting and useful!”. The suggested words did fit. But I was stuck, kind of. Was I supposed to keep typing, right over the new text? How could I just accept them?
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