Medium Technology Section

JULY 20, 2025

Offers creative tools for educators teaching art, design, engineering, and tech. Performance Metrics and Comparative Benchmarks According to Tencent, Hunyuan3D-PolyGen demonstrates competitive performance when benchmarked against existing models such as GET3D, Point-E, and DreamFusion.

Arts

Wired

JUNE 21, 2025

Performance isn’t super impressive either, as tested in benchmarks like Cinebench R24 and Geekbench 6. For what it’s worth, it also makes for a fabulous geeky teaching tool for kids. The M1 MacBook Air from 2020 even blows it away in both performance and battery life, and you can still buy that for just $649.

Laptop

The AI Alignment Forum

JULY 6, 2025

Daniel Filan (00:47:52): Yeah, this vulnerable world, and you could imagine that maybe we develop AGI and at some point it teaches us of these vulnerabilities. For the sake of making comparable benchmarks, they use low-context tasks. Samuel Albanie (00:47:51): The vulnerable world.

Train

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We engaged, asked questions, held competitions, discovered advertising and had a great time teaching the world about our cause and how to keep kids safe. Large national and international nonprofits have little problem reaching this benchmark, but small and some medium-size nonprofits will. And today we hit 100,000 likes/fans.

Social

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding from Benchmark and others. With tables, the idea is that either an instructor — or in the case of large classes as you might get with university seminars, teaching assistants assigned to tables — can engage with students in a more personalised way.

Teach

NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

We may also need to educate users about fundraising tools like Blackbuads Friends Asking Friends – Teaching them things like how to customize their personal fundraising page, how to import contacts for emailing, and how to enter offline donations. Utilize naming opportunities to recognize above described benchmarks.

Relationship

The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It consists of two major components: an open dataset of egocentric video and a series of benchmarks that Facebook thinks AI systems should be able to tackle in the future. Teach me how to play the drums”)? With this in mind, it’s worrying that benchmarks in this Ego4D project do not include prominent privacy safeguards.

Facebook

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

” The courses are designed to teach folks how to execute and succeed in a particular industry, and enable people to better understand the business aspect of industries while also teaching “you how to deal with the socioeconomic and racial injustices that come with being the only one in the room.

Course

The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Similar to how researchers have achieved breakthrough AI advances in teaching computers to play sophisticated video games and helping software learn how to manipulate robotic hands in lifelike ways , reinforcement learning is a technique that allows software to teach itself skills through trial and error.

Internet

Neon CRM

JULY 19, 2023

1/4th of Annual Nonprofit Revenue is Raised in December Source: M+R Benchmarks According to the 2023 M+R Benchmarks Report , December giving accounts for roughly one fourth (26%) of annual nonprofit revenue. Even as all giving declined in 2022 according to the M+R Benchmarks, the same study found an 11% increase in monthly giving.

Statistics

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000. They decided to use soccer to teach adolescents, primarily girls, about the dangers of HIV, how to protect themselves from STIs and sexual abuse, and how to build confidence beyond their teenage years!

Goal

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.

Journal

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

" Teach Parents Tech – I'm having so much fun playing with this new template from Google – it filters videos and other resources and pulls them together for the person you want to help get tailored tech support. What does that mean for you? We talked to a few experts and condensed their advice into this article.

Web

TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The answer is constantly changing, but recent history teaches us that it’s probably not more than 200% over public-market comps. Where the startup price premium benchmark settles this year could help determine if a host of Series B and C checks are written at valuations that are miserable, palatable or even exciting.

Share

Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The session turned into a brainstorm of useful metrics, and the group together came up with some pretty good benchmarks that could be refined and turned into a reasonable way to assess design. How do you really know if the architecture and graphic design of a web site is good? Here is the list: Desirability: Do people enjoy the site?

Teach

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

Every organization will now have 2020 swings to navigate, so benchmarking important metrics like donor retention or variances by fundraising channel pre-2020 and post-2020 will be critical to understanding long-term donor impact. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down.

Environment

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 17, 2023

The resulting Vid2Seq model pre-trained on millions of narrated videos improves the state of the art on a variety of dense video captioning benchmarks including YouCook2 , ViTT and ActivityNet Captions. We use transcribed speech sentences and their corresponding timestamps as supervision, which are cast as a single sequence of tokens.

Language

Google Research AI blog

JULY 10, 2023

Zhao , Ni Lao , Hongrae Lee , Da-Cheng Juan , Kelvin Guu Benchmarking Large Language Model Capabilities for Conditional Generation Joshua Maynez, Priyanka Agrawal, Sebastian Gehrmann Crosslingual Generalization Through Multitask Fine-Tuning Niklas Muennighoff, Thomas Wang, Lintang Sutawika, Adam Roberts , Stella Biderman, Teven Le Scao, M.

Google

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation. Whew, I thought I was alone, but I'm not" is comforting.

Skills

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

According to M+R Benchmarks Report , December giving, on average, accounts for nearly a quarter of nonprofits annual revenue, with 10% of the giving happening in the last three days of year. The holiday season is the most charitable in the US. Raising money for a cause or organization they believe in can meet all these needs.

Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A follow up question revealed that a big challenge is making goals measurable. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. The one I found most useful was #3 because it could be an easy way to compare or benchmark with other organizations. I tested each one.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Online seminars that teach non-profits how to use social networking tools is also very helpful as is assigning mentors to projects, which Pepsi will be doing in their program. Just as there are best practices and benchmarks for marketing online, via email, direct mail etc. to help participants develop their ideas for submission.

Contest

sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

We are working closely with our members to ensure they have the right data and tools to engage in benchmarking and analytics so they can engage in continuous improvement in advancement. Q: How can higher education institutions use reports like this one to benchmark themselves and set strategies for the future?

Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. My 53rd birthday wish.

Classes

Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. IMLS Building Digital Communities.

Digital

M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Users are naturally more engaged in SMS; according to the 2020 M+R Benchmarks Study , the clickthrough rate on a blast fundraising SMS message is 4.2%, compared to email, where clickthrough rate on fundraising messages is only 0.56%. . What Bill Murray can teach you about email marketing. Related Links.

Fundraising

sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. . Manage your e-learning project from start to finish, ensuring you hit all deadlines and benchmarks. .

Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Step 4: Define your benchmarks. When I use this a teaching tool for peer learning projects, participants select one result area to base a small project that they will measure. How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. Step 3: Define your investments. What is it really costing you to achieve this outcome?

Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The Institute for Development Studies , a nonprofit that does international development research, teaching and communications, created this YouTube video.

Social Media

Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup for Libraries , we've been covering the Edge Initiative , an assessment program that provides libraries with benchmarks, best practices, tools, and resources to support public technology services. project is focused on teaching digital literacy to young people so they can be prepared for 21 st. century jobs.

Library

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

retweet this message and our company will donate $x to charity), there is a better a benchmark. The money was donated to UC Davis research project to further look into Colony Collapse Disorder, as well as help fund the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, which aims to teach people about how to create their own honeybee farms. .

Advice

Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

Aimee Roundtree, Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses in medical and science writing, hypermedia and technology, web publishing and accessibility, visual design, and technical communication. Jen McCabe of Contagion Health. Here are few participant observations that stood out to me: R.O.I.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. Five Lessons Celebrities Can Teach Us About Facebook Fan Pages from Mashable. They do this with compelling imagery, a simple form and the ability to get to their main web site.

Facebook

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

In contrast, many philosophical and religious teachings have asserted that it is giving that leads to prosperity. This article seeks to test the non-economic hypothesis, using data from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey. It identifies strong evidence that money giving does, in fact, influence income."

Giving

Blue Fox

MARCH 5, 2020

Step 2 : TEACH: Educate Your Staff & Board Whether you realize it or not, your entire internal team (staff and board members) are walking, talking promoters and fundraisers for your organization. Use your financial data to frame your story (percentages, numbers, benchmarks). What do we mean by data-driven?

Donor

NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Henry Timms, founder of #GivingTuesday, and Christine Schaefer, VP of Community and Marketing at Salsa Labs , will teach you how to boost your fundraising through this movement in the upcoming webinar, #GivingTuesday in July: Get Ready for December Now! Miss out on #GivingTuesday last year, but considering participating for 2014?

Registration

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life. The kids had no idea who Tony or I were, but I took a rugby ball, Tony took a skateboard, and it made them smile.

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