Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

When I was 35, a ruptured brain aneurysm nearly killed me. However, the experience taught me about the power of empathy to heal and how clarity and decisive action especially when the stakes are high can be the most compassionate things someone can do to alleviate stress, confusion, and anxiety. Living my best life, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design firm that specializes in creating digital slide decks with editorial clarity and design that enable nonprofits to connect with audiences and move them from interest to action. Calling all presenters, trainers, and fundraisers! 5) Divider slides. 6) Brevity rules.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Calls to action (Buy Now, Contact Us, Learn More). Clarification on actions (Are you sure? This action will open a new window, this action will open our app). Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. Status messages (error, processing, success). Make it specific, and easy to understand.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Enterprises can use Mega to test various robot brains and policies at scale for mobility, navigation, dexterity and spatial reasoning. As robot brains execute their missions in simulation, they perceive the results of their actions through sensor simulation and plan their next action.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Check this one out in action. A more brainlike artificial neural network is helping make robot hands smarter than ever.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

But computer “brains” are useless without the skeletons that give humanoid robots their formand the many components that make up those skeletons need to come from somewhere. But quick action may be required if the humanoid robotics revolution turns out to be even a fraction of the size some experts predict.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

And when decisions dont work out, the brain updates its modeling of the consequences of actions”I dropped a gallon of milk because it was too heavy for meso that kids eventually learn not to repeat the same behavior. We dont immediately get feedback on every step and action. Thats the problem with sparse rewards.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

In a video, it shows off wristbands that use electromyography (EMG) to translate subtle neural signals into actions — like typing, swiping, or playing games like an archery simulator. When that happens, your brain sends signals to your hands and fingers telling them to move in specific ways in order to perform actions like typing and swiping.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 26, 2010

" I should have stopped there and realized what was going on, but no, I clicked on the link and got this: And before my drug-addled brain could stop my fingers, I forgot what I was doing and clicked "Allow." Apologies to any of my Facebook friends for whom my actions weren't fast enough. " I think it did.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

But problems within the brain are more difficult to treat, and for stroke victims rehabilitation is largely left to the body’s own repair mechanisms. But medical science has no method for directly rebuilding those networks — the brain must do so on its own, in its own time. If you lose a leg, prostheses are available.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

There are primitive parts of your brain that control your reaction to threats on your reputation, making these reactions extremely difficult to control. What happens in our brain. When you think about negative consequences, a part of your brain, the hypothalamus, activates and triggers the pituitary gland to secrete the hormone ACTH.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If leadership lacks alignment in the new strategic actions, expectations will rise while clarity drops, creating stress and conflict. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. For example, when economic shifts force leaders to pivot, employees may have to scrap their work.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For example, our brains are hardwired to involuntarily respond to seeing or hearing our own names. Some examples of powerful action verbs include: Help Save Change Beat Donate 6. Continuously pushing back deadlines or issuing daily urgent call-to-actions can get stale fast.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2025

What it does is predict future actions based on historical data and patterns. This helps you understand donor behaviors and preferences, and also respond to actionable recommendations. FINAL THOUGHTS: AI wont replace your human brain, but it can give it a boost. And you dont need to be a tech wizard to use it!

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

Nonprofit organizations often measure fundraising results such as donation volume, engagement on social media , and participants at fundraising events without knowing why people take these actions. Emotionraising is where neuroscience meets actionable advice for nonprofit organizations. Emotionraising, Explained.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2014

Brain Traffic. And—no matter what—how can you execute “mobile first” without compromising your messages and calls to action? Kristina Halvorson. Mobile is simply one more way to connect to your audiences through content. Without powerful, useful, usable content, channels don’t matter. Mobile doesn’t matter. Mobile first!”

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2021

Gebru wrote an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv describing her frustration over the paper, and mentioned her doubts about Google’s commitments to diversity and inclusion. She says Google told her the email was “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The NextMind controller is a sensor that reads electrical signals from your brain’s visual cortex, and translates those into input signals for a connected PC. After the calibration process, I immediately jumped into the demos and was performing a range of actions effectively with my brain.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Thats why C stands for certainty in the NeuroLeadership Institutes SCARF Model of social threat and reward: When we can predict certain outcomes in our environment, we feel a sense of reward, which motivates us to take action. When we feel uncertain, however, we tend to feel threatened, which makes us freeze or retreat from the situation.

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Achieve

MAY 4, 2016

But when it comes to needing them to actually take action for your cause, they pretty much disappear. Because humans are inherently empathetic, when we see suffering, injustice, or an opportunity to make a difference, our brain tells us to do something. Such an approach rarely succeeds in converting interest into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

If you’re having trouble focusing, you may be suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting at work. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour. What we eat and drink can impact how our bodies and brains work. There’s a reason why healthy food is called “brain food.”

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Byte Technology

APRIL 9, 2015

Mann is quick to point out that his approach isn’t directed so much towards the number of messages that plague our inboxes, bur rather the amount of time our brains spend dwelling there. It’s not how many messages are in your inbox, it’s how much of your own brain is in that inbox. That ‘zero?’ Especially when you don’t want it to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Depending on your cause and audience, you can plan your next fundraiser on a holiday and incorporate the theme into your call-to-action. June = African-American Music Appreciation Month, Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Awareness Month, LGBT Pride Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, PTSD Awareness Month.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2023

Phrases Let’s begin with some effective calls to action inspired by Words that Sell by Richard Bayan. The human brain is simply wired to react when it hears this word. Please consider a gift of $XXX (or in the range of $xx to $xxx). This is respectful. Don’t ask folks to give ‘ something.’

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 27, 2016

And nothing is more discouraging than seeing all that hard work not translate into trackable actions. That said, what are the best ways to use some psychological tidbits to tap into emotional and subconscious urges of the human brain? Thank them for the action they took and you’ll invest them with the “social capital” we all crave.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2020

Fortunately, there is a unique approach that nonprofits can use to better understand their prospects, while also encouraging your prospects to take action and actually contribute to your organization. Thanks to neuromarketing, organizations can promote their brands based on the way their target audiences’ brains work.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Once you’ve racked your brain and come up with a couple of potentially perfect ideas, you then have to figure out if the domain name is actually available. “In be” is still a very popular choice , and there are many companies who include a call-to-action in their domain name like “ [link] ”. “.io” It has a natural call-to-action!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Posted by Shunyu Yao, Student Researcher, and Yuan Cao, Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Recent advances have expanded the applicability of language models (LM) to downstream tasks. Model Overview ReAct enables language models to generate both verbal reasoning traces and text actions in an interleaved manner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2023

I truly believe that you can transform your future by reading this book and putting The Flexible Method into action,” says Burstall. James Burstall The book includes what Burstall describes as heartening stories from a wide range of people who put elements of the Flexible Method into action. “It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Well, that’s the exact number of Facebook fans we have at the very moment I am typing this call to action. In my brain I thought, wow, wouldn’t it be awesome if everyone on Facebook actually saw this request and donated just, like, a dollar?! Why $1,937, you ask? Rock on, social media!). If I win, this is what we get: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action. People are only as good as their actions. And actions are only as good as the thinking behind them. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Once you wrap your brain around these truths about what funders want to accomplish with their giving, you can begin to shape the message in your Letter of Inquiry that’ll give them exactly what they want. People need to care about the problem you’re defining if they’re going to want to take action to fix it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s usually third-world countries that frequently say they’re experiencing a “brain drain” — the bleeding of talent to other countries or parts of the world. Right now, a lot of information being communicated to the crypto industry is through enforcement action. The number of blockchain developers in the U.S.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2016

. • One tried-and-true design element that has stood the test of time on the Internet is pairing a striking_or even shocking, depending on your organization’s mission—visual image with a direct call to action. This is a fantastic way to convey important information in a way that doesn’t require a user to wade through text.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 26, 2010

I should have stopped there and realized what was going on, but no, I clicked on the link and got this: And before my drug-addled brain could stop my fingers, I forgot what I was doing and clicked "Allow." Apologies to any of my Facebook friends for whom my actions weren't fast enough. I think it did. Maybe she got wise to it as well.

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