The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. None of these constitute a conversation. Both have seen major improvements in recent years thanks to the arrival of new machine learning techniques coupled with abundant data and cheap computation. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. Techniques for More Engagement. What about a certain post created that big conversation. I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. Facebook Strategic Objectives. Understand why we had more new fans on a certain day. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Today, we are excited to introduce conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in Spaces. This feature is enabled by our state-of-the-art abstractive summarization model, Pegasus , which generates useful and concise summaries for chat conversations, and is currently available to selected premium Google Workspace business customers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Want to experience art in a populist, energized, industrial/urban setting? Artprize , now in its second year, is a city-wide art festival with a $250,000 top prize to be awarded to the work that receives the most public votes. It was the best experience I've ever had talking and learning about art. Want to talk about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere? Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Answer questions.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Addressing these fundamental motivations is key, and by doing so, you’ll witness an increased conversion of donors. Compassion Services International used powerful photos and other storytelling techniques to raise a significant amount of money for Ukraine Relief. You know, those images and videos that tug at the heartstrings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies. But there is much more potential to be tapped beyond the familiar conversion of industrial spaces and historic offices.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Harold blogged about that here.

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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. Published state-of-the-art 6.9% See paper for details.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Last Friday, Media Impact Funders brought together technologists, journalists, philanthropists and innovators for a day-long conversation on the future of media and tech innovation. ” They will ask is it time to order the flowers? They will give the technique a formal burial and eulogy.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Art of Creating High-Quality e-Learning Content GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Imagine a universe where acquiring novel expertise is merely a tap away, irrespective of your location or the hour. This technique encompasses researching and collecting data about your learners to gain a clearer understanding of their behaviors and preferences.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Art of Creating High-Quality e-Learning Content GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Imagine a universe where acquiring novel expertise is merely a tap away, irrespective of your location or the hour. This technique encompasses researching and collecting data about your learners to gain a clearer understanding of their behaviors and preferences.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Art of Creating High-Quality e-Learning Content Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Imagine a universe where acquiring novel expertise is merely a tap away, irrespective of your location or the hour. Hence, the relevance of engagement techniques such as gamification.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. By then, recorded music was no longer just the document of a performance—it was a composite of style, hooks, and production techniques, an extension of a popular personality’s image within a current sound. They are designed to do different things.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2019

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” While newspapers previously focused on creating stories and moving on to the next one, a priority that has emerged is facilitating deeper conversations with readers and showcasing their feedback. Sherry questioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. Micro conversions or steps. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session?

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Google released Gemini Ultra, a state-of-the-art foundation model that requires 50 billion petaflops. But like transformers, the new technique soon caught fire. This chart highlights the exponential growth in training compute requirements for notable machine learning models since 2012. million users.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. imagine indeed… Join me and my colleague, Hiram Cuevas of St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010. If you see conversions increase along with play-through rates, great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I said yes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This technique is particularly interesting to me because our county already manages a bi-annual community assessment project that asks direct questions about perception of prejudice. These techniques are not rocket science, but none of them even occurred to me prior to my conversation with Tiffany Brannon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

” Anthropic describes the frontier model as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching,” making reference to an AI training technique it developed called “constitutional AI.” “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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