Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The next time a client proposed an impossible deadline, she said, To meet your goals, wed need more time to maintain quality. Before entering these conversations, get clear on your reasons and rehearse how youll articulate them. A former student of mine, a project manager, learned this the hard way. The result?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It involves thorough research to align your organization’s mission with the right funding opportunities, ensuring that your proposals resonate with potential funders’ goals and criteria. The tune of your proposal should sing out clearly, highlighting how your mission aligns with the funder’s goals. And what’s more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If we stay true to these five simple measurement steps as articulated by colleague KD Paine, then we’re on a good, steady course of continuous improvement. 1) Conversation Rate: Conversation Rate = # of Audience Comments (or Replies) Per Post. It helps you set priorities, allocate resources, and make choices.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here are ten tips on preparation, evaluating proposals , and red flags to watch out for in working with digital vendors: Seek productive conversations as a starting point. Is the proposal easy to understand? Are they able to articulate this in straightforward language? Is the digital vendor known to your organization?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When I proposed the concept of “datamaking,” I was seeking to bring as many aspects of the organization together as possible. We may want to move toward treating reporting as a compliance tool to public reporting as an articulation of shared desires and advocacy. How does trajectory thinking strengthen grantmaking?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

” is a hell of a conversation starter. There’s one lesson you can take away from this: If you’re struggling to come up with a vision that’s as clear as this, ask yourself if you fully understand your market, the problem you are solving and the solutions you are proposing. It was that, now it is this.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

The goal of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to present a project in the context of the organization and its goals so that great vendors can submit the best possible proposals. Once you have written this proposal it is time to find great vendors to send you bids. Quality of proposal (1 low < 5 high). Check this out.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

In your initial conversations about the aesthetic you’re after, does the agency staff communicate in language that you can understand? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Do they speak in web marketing lingo, using terms like ‘conversions’ and ‘calls to action’?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2017

Many grantmakers are eager to engage in conversations on ways your organization can "shake things up" to help identify new approaches to ongoing problems. And, if you can engage the grantmaker in a conversation, then by all means do so. Lovely, articulate, and bold vision. How Did They Create a Plan of Action?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Come prepared with a couple of different proposed partnership ideas, like a social media contest or an event sponsorship. Tip #3: Be Open to Having Conversations Opportunities are everywhere. When determining what you have to offer, remember to include every department in this conversation.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Struggling to articulate the value of your data team? And the result of those conversations has been none other than a brand new data ROI pyramid. Learn how to calculate your data team’s return with the Data ROI Pyramid. Image by author. Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our ongoing work on LaMDA explores how these models can be used for safe, grounded, and high-quality dialog to enable contextual multi-turn conversations. Natural conversations are clearly an important and emergent way for people to interact with computers. I’m excited about the progress we’ve made in making LaMDA useful and factual.

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Guibas Contact : kaichun@cs.stanford.edu Links: Paper Keywords : embodied ai, 3d scene graph, interactive perception VAT-Mart: Learning Visual Action Trajectory Proposals for Manipulating 3D ARTiculated Objects Authors : Ruihai Wu*, Yan Zhao*, Kaichun Mo*, Zizheng Guo, Yian Wang, Tianhao Wu, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Leonidas J.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Clients can feel taken advantage of if proposals are always more than they expected them to be and agencies struggle to work with unrealistic budgets despite their best efforts to accommodate. Conversely, larger agencies need larger project work to keep all their resources deployed efficiently. Their own abilities and resources.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. Sure, we all want on-time, on-budget delivery, that is self-evident. Executive Vision and Involvement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. You can tell they are wondering why you are here but they don’t necessarily want to articulate it, so you just get this weird vibe.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna accepted my proposal. I had this dream that I would write about a topic they cared about, send them an email about it, and maybe the conversation would go somewhere. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. Find a starting point for conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution). She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true. I also have been around this.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

While requiring people to build their virtual designs required more work (and expertise) from them, it also allowed them to clearly articulate their designs and to engage on a more professional, specific level about the exhibits. Some museum professionals asked me, "couldn't the participants have just described their exhibit in text?"

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Once requirements are collected, grants managers have traditionally been instructed to solicit Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from vendors. We need to clearly articulate our north star, why we are going there, and what support we need to make it happen. And we have arrived at a chasm of disconnect.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

It’s critical that you continually move past your job description and contribute to the industry conversation on a larger scale. Whether you’re speaking with an audience in person at a conference, online through YouTube, Google+ Hangouts or on a TV segment, you’ll be able to articulate your unique perspective on the industry.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. So thank you for bearing with me so far on this conversation.

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TechNode

MAY 22, 2024

Below is the transcript of Chatterjees conversation with Jason Ho, co-founder of BEYOND EXPO. Jason Ho: UNSDG is the sustainable development goals proposed in 2012. He made the remarks while addressing the opening ceremony of the BEYOND EXPO 2024 on Wednesday. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

You just want to know as much as you reasonably and respectfully can about a prospect so that you can comfortably converse with them and develop an appropriate ask. Individual donors are free to fund whatever you propose that they agree will be of most benefit to you. Secondly, a commitment to professional development. ” No.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

And what I’m getting from this conversation is there’s a lot of chips that have just been static, that are just commodities. I went to an event where one of the big foundries was announcing an expansion, and they had guests from the automakers who articulated exactly that: “We have to be a strategic partner with the chip manufacturers.”

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2025

Nonprofits are facing ever-increasing challenges in obtaining financial capital, with reports of declines in individual donors , fundraising challenges , and proposed government spending cuts. Social capital is also often a factor in securing invitations to submit grant proposals or work on initiatives.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2025

We recently held a webinar for Blackbaud Champions featuring a longtime bbcon track leader and three experienced bbcon speakers to share their tips for a strong application, and weve put together a summary of that conversation to help all potential speakers.

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” When proposing new tech, show how it addresses a core customer or operational need rather than focusing on internal departmental issues. Don’t jump to the technology solution without articulating a problem. DO: Align with Organizational Goals and Mission Tie your proposal to the organization’s goals and mission.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 29, 2025

Perhaps this is just a limitation of the concept design, but either way, the Corleo needs this articulation to ensure a safe and smooth ride. Current progress in legged robotics suggests that many features proposed by Kawasaki are feasible. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Media Cause

APRIL 24, 2025

KPIs such as: Donor retention rates Average donation size Conversion rates on fundraising emails & ads Lifetime donor value (LTV) Develop a Comprehensive Donor Journey Map: Tailoring your communications and touchpoints for each stage (from initial contact to long-term stewardship) increases engagement and sustained giving.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

EY itself is involved in the proposal as well: An executive of the firm discussed the idea with HUD officials last month. Robert Judson, the EY executive involved in the conversations, confirmed that they took place. HUD officials held at least two meetings about the blockchain proposal last month.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Thanks to Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, and Ryan Greenblatt and others for conversations that inspired these stories. Caption: Sneaking a conversation with an AI Waifu. In early 2026, few people would guess that an articulate CEO on a Zoom call was an AI, and fewer would guess this CEOs intentions.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Pessimist: Right, but my plan for this morning was to respond to this particular comment by Noosphere89 (which involves a behaviorist reward function), not to propose the best possible brain-like AGI alignment plan. Optimist: But why not propose the best possible brain-like AGI alignment plan? Pessimist: Sorry, my bad. Force of habit.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. Markey sat down for an interview with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss these issues, his proposed solutions, and. But it has to be something that’s articulated at the highest levels of the federal government.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

Soon he was in conversation with an old contact. He seemed articulate, intelligent,” he told me last May. “I In early November, Kaplan and Rob met face to face for the first time, after a year and a half of daily conversations. “I Kaplan asked Milla to move in with him for however long this lockdown lasted. Your choice.

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