Name: Intro to Google Gems (Coffee & Clouds Series)
Uploaded: 2026-03-27T19:20:56.497Z
Duration: 13 min 28 s
Description: Intro to Google Gems (Coffee & Clouds Series)

Transcript for "Intro to Google Gems (Coffee & Clouds Series)": Hey. Good day, everyone, and welcome to our Coffee and Cloud series event intro to Google Gems. I'm Alan Falcon, CEO of Cumulus Global. And today, I'm joined by Bill Seibel, one of our senior cloud advisers, as we look to provide you a quick intro into Google Gems, part of the Gemini AI ecosystem and part of the Google for Workspace and Gemini for Workspace ecosystem as well. A reminder that during the session, the audio is muted. So please use the q and a window on the right hand side of your screen if you have any questions. I'm more happy to answer them and or we can get back to you one on one if that's appropriate. As always, we record these sessions, and we'll send you a link usually within twenty four hours. We'll also in that email, we'll include a link to the resources. If you look over to the right, there's the docs tab, that lists five or six resources that relate to a topic at hand that you might be interested in if you're interested in leveraging AI for more productive, secure, and affordable IT in your local small business. On that note, let's dive right into the topic, because we try and keep these short and sweet. What what is a Google Gem? Well, Google Gems are a customized Gemini chatbot agent. And what that means is you basically get to create your own personalized interaction with Gemini AI. You can define goals. You can set the persona through which you want Gemini to do the analysis, research, image generation, or prompt responses in the output that you'd like. And what this is great for is repeatable functions. So, for example, if you're using, you know, if you're using Gemini as a marketing tool, you can set the persona and goals to your, you know, to your company persona book or to really, have a persona that'll connect with your ideal client profile and set goals around your marketing goals and a tone of however you want your company to present itself. And then all the feedback you get from Gemini, you know, from Gemini AI when you use this gem will be with that persona and that tone and those goals in mind. The nice thing also about Google Gems is you get to retain the context, instructions, guidelines that you create when you create a gem. And it really gives you use case consistency. My example, if you're using for a marketing tool, it makes sure that every time you use it, the types of results, the tone, the nature, the focus will be consistent. It makes it a lot more efficient and makes things repeatable. Because gems are shareable, someone can create a gem and share it with coworkers so that both individuals or multiple individuals have that same interaction, that same response, the same guidelines around the results. And what I wanted to do is I thought, you know, I'd invite Bill in today to, you know, show you how to set up a JEM, how easy it is, and give you some examples on how you can use it and what the results might look like. And so on that note, Bill, welcome. Thanks for joining us today. Of course. Thanks, Alan. Okay. And I'll let you dive right in. So the way that you're able to get to to, GEMS is the same way you would get to the Gemini application. If you just simply go to gemini.google.com, you're going to see the Gemini app. And if I click up at the very top, left hand corner, I'll be able to see the expand menu. And here, I will see not only starting a new chat, but then underneath that, that is where all of your gems are housed. If if I click on the gems section, initially, you'll actually see a couple of initial ideas that Google will provide for you if you're looking for some initial inspiration around this. And to create a gym, I'm just gonna simply click on the button that says new gym. Now as as Alan was saying, you know, it's a a gem is a much more specialized type of of of prompting when it comes to the Google AI ecosystem. I like to think of it as as a if you're going to Gemini and asking it a question, it's kinda like leaning over the cube and asking, your coworker what's a an for an answer. But when you really wanna get a specific answer, you're gonna go find so that right that person within the organization that knows everything. If I have a question around finance, I'm gonna go talk to our CFO as opposed to talking to my coworker in the cube next to me. So in this case, we're going to to to create a gem. And and one of the things is that that I've learned along the way is is that there are four pillars that kinda come to to a good gem creation. The first of which is is the persona of the gem. And you wanna establish kind of what the what the professional lens looks like, or you you really wanna give it a specific identity. And so in this case, we're going to we're gonna put together a gym, and this one this person is going to be our hiring manager. The the next thing that you wanna do when it comes to the the these four pillars is you wanna establish a task for that for this gem. So think of it as kind of the mission objective, or this could be, like, a specific direction that you want to to have this person take this role of the this gym to take on. The next is you wanna provide some level of context, and this is where you kinda give the specific, the specific scoop, you know, the the the con constraints that the I AI should stay within. It's it's kind of like, who this audience is geared to and and kind of the why behind the request. And then finally is the format. And this could be a you know, simply a a paragraph. You wanna limit it to a paragraph. You wanna limit it to tables. You want it to export out a specific type of code. It's really kind of what you're you're telling the the agent or the the GEM to output for you. So what we could do is we could just simply put in kind of an initial basic basic role. So for in this case, I could say, you know, hey. You're a member of a senior leadership team for a small professional service firm, and you're responsible for helping managers hire new staff and contractors. Now this is this is kinda basic and or just very general. Excuse me. And and so what I could do is is just go off of that. But I could I can also, like I said, format that in the in the the way of of those four pillars, or I could even come come down below here and use Gemini to rewrite this so that it's a little bit more descriptive so that I can I can get the the some of the results that I'm looking for in this case? I then can go over here and click save, and that gem will be saved. And then I can even, from from this point, click share, and that's where I am able to share it with either individuals or groups within the organization. I'll just click done here, and I'll click start chat. And what I'll do is I'm going to I already have some something in mind here. So what I'll do is is I will throw in a a prompt. And I'm gonna say that I need to hire a specific project manager for this for this digital transformation contract. And what I'll not only what I'll do is have that initial prompt, but I'm gonna even take, the job description from my files, and I'm gonna add it to this prompt. And I'll go ahead and click submit. And then it's going to not only provide some additional information around the things that I should be the analysis around the job itself, but even some things like, hey. What are some of the questions I should be asking these candidates? And then it even gives me a little bit of a little bit of a tail end of is as typically what Gemini does in showing the the the you know, some additional things that I would want might wanna do when I continue on with this prompt. You know, one of the things that you could always do is go back to that gem, and you can always go and and continue to to refine it a little bit. One of the things that I found effective is is that in many cases, you're telling what the gym you want. In some cases, you could even say, here are the things I don't want. I want to eliminate corporate jargon, for example. Or if I'm a hiring manager, ignore any gaps in the in the candidate's resume that are less than six months. Those are some of the things that you can do, and you can say what I want and what I don't want. To kind of piggyback on one of the things that we did before in our last session last month with our Krispy Kreme example, and if you haven't seen that, plea please take a look at NotebookLM because it's a it's a fantastic example of of of leveraging NotebookLM. But you can within the gems themselves is you can also add specific knowledge around the around the the gem itself as well. And in this case, I have taken the Notebook LM of our Krispy Kreme, brand information and thrown this in here. And to kind of throw against it what Alan had said around that consistent brand message, if I have all this kind of put in place with this gem and I share a gem out to the folks in my organization, now I can create a a standardized brand voice when it comes to putting together information that I want to generate from a gem. So in this case, I'm going to say that what I'd like the this gem to write a press release about a new store opening in Westborough, Massachusetts for Krispy Kreme. And Alan is the is the store owner, and we have a new manager in West. And I'll go ahead and click submit, and this will then be able to pull together a not just a press release around a store opening in Westborough, Massachusetts, but it's also going to it's going to tap into Krispy Kreme's brand voice and be able to generate a lot of that information based on not only the gem itself, but also that information that we populated within the Notebook. Lm. Here you can see that it's it's very much got that same kind of brand voice that you might expect from Krispy Kreme. It gives you a couple of options of being able to to enter in the specific information around when the store is opening and what the address is. And it also even pulls together some of the things that you might expect with a new store from Krispy Kreme opening up with community engagement as well as as accommodating as fans that are lining up, for the hot and ready line. So, Alan? I think you're muted there, Alan. Okay. I'm on mute. The beauty of doing things live. So, Bill, thank you very much for that intro to gems, how to get started, and some real quick use cases, meaningful use cases, and examples of how it can work and the type of results you get. I assume, you know, this is a quick, you know, quick hit intro here. So if folks have more information, feel free to contact us. My email Bill's email address is right on the screen here. Additionally, in our library, we've got a number number of additional resources. We will share this recording. It ends up in the AI landing zone as well as a whole collection of blog posts, ebooks, white papers, and other videos. Some of our content, other content we've collated and and brought in from other resources as well that we think are valuable. And if you wanna dive in more and understand how to use Google Gemini, we've got that the the ability to help you. So give us a call, use the Bitly code or the QR code, and book a time with us. We'd love to chat. And so I wanna think take this moment to thank everyone for, joining us here today. Whether you're watching live or you're watching this on recording, we appreciate you being part of the event. And hopefully this hopefully this was useful to you, and we can if you need to, we can certainly help with more information. And, the docs tab, those resources that relate to this topic, we'll be sending those links out in the follow-up email as well. Have a great day. Have a great week. And, again, thanks for joining us.