Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And then theres Good Inside , which has become a go-to resource for parents seeking guidance and advice from expert coaches, along with a robust online community. The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Through artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, this free app constantly monitors your financial situation and works to make it better. Signing up for this free option takes only a few seconds. For more advice on low-cost and free tools for nonprofits, check out our tech portion of the blog. .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I don't think I'd be so successful, however, if there wasn't a wealth of free or inexpensive coding resources out there. Elliott Harmon wrote a great round up of free HTML resources a few years ago on the TechSoup blog. offers a library of free courses, including a whole index of computer science courses.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2014

The person I turn to for effective communication advice, David Grossman, has released a new eBook called, Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication. This free eBook helps communication professionals recognize the 10 most common barriers to effective communication that leaders construct.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Maven , a startup that helps professionals teach cohort-based classes, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The co-founder teaches a course to all incoming Maven instructors — meta, I know — from deciding to put in a curriculum to understanding course-market fit and building buzz for the course.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Free versus paid: this is an age-old debate that dictates so much in our daily lives. When is something that’s free good enough? And free themes have another advantage: they’re often much easier to learn to use than paid versions, an important consideration for someone who is a newbie to WordPress design.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on the effectiveness of major donor thank you parties. Even though this is a free donor recognition event, you want to make it sound like something that would be worth paying for. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

I always found the advice ironic because it required me to change the medium of my writing to become a better writer. They see the grade, but they tend to just throw it out… so I figured out how to help them apply very difficult-to-learn skills that we expect kids to know, but don’t explicitly teach them.”.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

This guest post was written by Nicole Robert, a graduate student in the course I’m teaching at the University of Washington on social technology. The University of Washington Museology Graduate Program invited Nina up to Seattle to teach a course on using social technologies in museums. The result is an exhibit about advice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. askbritt online classroom learning education career advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

So you want to teach yourself SEO? Here are the steps of teaching yourself SEO in 6 steps: STEP 1 – Find a resource for beginners. Get ready to thank them now since it’s also completely free. This is one of the best pieces of advice to live by – “If you want to be a gardener, hang around people who are gardeners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to improve decisions and get better results as a networked nonprofit. It’s a must read for data nerds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2014

The person I turn to for effective communication advice, David Grossman, has released a new eBook called, Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication. This free eBook helps communication professionals recognize the 10 most common barriers to effective communication that leaders construct.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The ones that perform the best are those where the picture is self-explanatory: Now although this may sound anecdotal, I see a lot of people following the “post picture” advice too blindly (ourselves included!). The bad news is, that whilst they do teach people something, they don’t spread as far. please retweet. social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

AXIS creates, performs, and teaches “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form that evolves from the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. 6.) Lessons Learned, Advice. ” They’ve put together a strategy for Facebook ads to recruit new fans using testing and targeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. Robin has tested hundreds of tools – from free to enterprise level. He kindly put together two mind maps with links to tools that are free and easy to get started with. You”ll find them linked here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. If you could give one key piece of security advice that every person should know. Tell me how you got here. And before we end.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 2, 2024

We relied on each other for advice early in our careers and now, decades later, I continue to learn from her. If they have the work ethic, the drive, the tenacity, and mostly the adaptability—to me, the top skill for a fundraiser—we can teach them everything fundraising, the giving mechanisms, and how to make the ask,” White said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. One piece of advice that I learned from Cliff Atkinson's book was to think about your presentation key points as tweets so people can retweet them. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2020

You can learn Spike Lee’s methods for making an independent film in 12 quick steps or have Anna Wintour teach you how to be a creative leader in under a dozen, all illustrated with remarkably bad cartoons. The website says the lessons are “stolen from MasterClass,” and that it “makes MasterClass’ content (ordinarily $180) available for free.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One piece of advice that Rachel Clemens gave was to outsource your research when you can. This will ensure that you don’t inject bias into the process, you’re getting the most out of your data, and will free up your marketing team to do what they do best. Your focus now should be on teaching others how to achieve this milestone!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Check Out These Free Tips For Making An Effective Presentation Speechworks has published a free eBook entitled How to Create a Seven Minute Rifle Shot Presentation. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Our events team had a great idea: If you got laid off, we are offering a free Expo Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt , no strings attached. What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Before problems arise and between regularly scheduled meetings, entrepreneurs should get comfortable with asking for help and advice.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The company totally backed me and had me flying around the US hosting these Excel training sessions because I just genuinely loved to teach Excel. He wrote, basically, “Hey, I love your teaching style. The people giving that advice are essentially trying to take these concepts and frame them in a way that they can hand off to anyone.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

Bring a topic that you want to teach others about. In the rest of this newsletter we’re talking about Amazon’s new bed, and bad advice from investors. If you feel like supporting me extra, subscribe to my very free and still in the works Substack. The main principles? Are we surprised?

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . Here’s one some of my clients use (I don’t find it particularly helpful personally, but you can try it for free for 30 days). A task management system may help a little.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Virtual advocacy opportunities — Teach volunteers to be strong advocates for your cause. A virtual advice line for community members — Train volunteers to answer questions and offer guidance on topics relevant to your nonprofit’s mission. Offer them a gift card to a local restaurant — Who doesn’t love free food?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

My primary advice for online language learners like myself is to avoid going all-in on one resource (at least, at the start). and different courses might teach different ones. The first phrases Pimsleur teaches you are common tourist phrases (“Do you speak English?” It also teaches you a lot of words very quickly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Moving forward, one of the most difficult tasks of a leader will be to embrace the personalities of individual team members and to provide the space necessary for free expression and creativity. Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. What is your best advice for sharing bad news in the workplace?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Moving forward, one of the most difficult tasks of a leader will be to embrace the personalities of individual team members and to provide the space necessary for free expression and creativity. Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. What is your best advice for sharing bad news in the workplace?

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Mentoring Leadership Teach Advice 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

The person I turn to for effective communication advice, David Grossman, released last fall an eBook called, Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication. This free eBook helps communication professionals recognize the 10 most common barriers to effective communication that leaders construct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. In a recent interview, John Hadyon reinforced this timeless piece of Facebook engagement advice. And, of course, your alumni network and Facebook fans love free stuff and giveaways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Before problems arise and between regularly scheduled meetings, entrepreneurs should get comfortable with asking for help and advice. What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Reaching out to share an update or ask questions sends a strong signal that you’re not waiting for someone to give you direction.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Rosita Longevity wants to teach seniors how to live long, healthy lives. “Over the last five months we have been working on automatizing those processes while delivering the service to those users (aside the other ones on the free version). . The app is offered as both paid or a lighter, freemium version.

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DataRobot

MAY 18, 2021

From there, there are another three sessions you should watch, especially if you’re more business-oriented: Automation and Guardrails teaches the basics of automated model deployment, management, and monitoring. There’s a free trial to get you started. Finally, I recommend watching Under the Hood: Transforming Products with AI.

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