TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes. On the last day, we made use of the beautiful three-story double staircase by having participants do a couple of laps up and down the steps.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

So in honor of Freaky Friday, here are 13 real supporter horror stories, none of which involve zombies. Her husband made fun of her. He wrote a sob-story email to the volunteer coordinator. He wrote a sob-story email to the volunteer coordinator. (I I got the sob-story, too, and I agreed it was a good excuse.)

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

And the minute he called me, I was just like, “Oh, this is a chance to work with Ron again and to revisit these characters, this world that I love, and to have some fun.” Those are really important story and design aspects of what we tackle. Hardly any stories start out without any characters who already have a history together.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Manage Your Time Ok, tools are great, but the discipline of using your time wisely is where your nonprofit productivity will skyrocket, lowering your stress and making work more fun. Or maybe you have a great story to write up for your website. It’s not fun. I can do it even when my brain feels fried.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1. Great maps unfold stories in successive layers of visual focus and comprehension. Get more stories about great maps (and even some geo-jokes!)

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 13, 2011

The fun part is that they are all very different from one another. I think when I was young, I learned that dogs say “woof&# and cats say “meow.&# I guess my young brain thought that meant that all cats say “meow&# and only “meow.&# But now I have all these kitties who speak a different language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They're investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. The story is line is being summarized regularly on the blog. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera. Here's Act 2.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Have some fun. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Deployed enough times, the brain encodes this response as a habit, eventually creating an automatic, default response to stress – i.e., a Protective Pattern.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Got any fun plans for the long weekend? Most people aren’t straight-up racist, but it turns out unconscious biases sneak into our brains in all sorts of nasty, sneaky little ways. PST, subscribe here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Apparently, it takes 21 days of repetitive activity for your brain to accept new behavior as a habit. Some of my time has to go to regular 'expenses,' some of my time is an 'investment' that will pay off later, and some of it is just for fun. Like any budget, I'll have to make adjustments as I go along.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Feed your brain with these tasty morsels: Hug it out with linguistically progressive robots : We’re fans of startups with great names, and the now-valued-at-$2-billion Hugging Face may very well be up there as one of the best.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. MJ: Everybody talks about this life work balance story but I’m not a believer in life work balance being eight hours here, eight hours there. SILICON ALLEE (SA): How do you see the startup scene in Berlin at the moment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For example, Ana-Marie Jones from Card Can Help shared how her small agency has implemented an effective social media strategy. I was able to capture some of her story with a FLIP camera. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun! This typically unpacks more insightful information and nuggets of wisdom.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It’s been just the most incredible, fun journey building this business. I created lines of really fun courses. I design each video and infuse it with as much creativity and fun as possible. If you’ve seen my Instagram or my TikTok, you know I have to keep it fun. Since then we have been doing six-figure months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2023

Before I dive into the news, I wanted to say that I hope you all had a restful and fun holiday. Still, I will admit it has taken a bit for my brain to switch back to work mode this week…so bear with me. Ours was super low-key but that’s not a bad thing. On Friday, I published an article on Doorstead ’s $21.5 million Series B raise.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

I want a program director who can write compelling stories about the experiences of our participants. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. These are fun and gradual ways to improve writing skills. Write compelling stories.

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OneCause

AUGUST 22, 2024

As you’re sitting by the fire, you can also host a scary story contest. Apple Bobbing Apple bobbing can be a great addition to any fall-themed event, but it can also be fun on its own, if you’re in a time crunch and low on resources. Costume Run This is another fun idea to do with costumes. After all, it’s Halloween season!

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Tableau

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Their stories offer a behind-the-scenes view of what it looks like to lead with data. Once people see the ability to “connect data and pieces of knowledge that previously the human brain couldn’t integrate,” they understand the power of data, said Ludwig. Replace “data” with “knowledge”. And knowledge is power. Data Culture, on demand.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Their stories offer a behind-the-scenes view of what it looks like to lead with data. . Once people see the ability to “connect data and pieces of knowledge that previously the human brain couldn’t integrate,” they understand the power of data, said Ludwig. Replace “data” with “knowledge”. And knowledge is power.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Whomever you start talking with at this conference is going to be an interesting person; they''ll have great stories to tell about their work and their organization, and they''ll be a possible resource to you. Come join us for fun and games at our second annual Geek Games. Don’t be shy”, says Peter Campbell. Let the games begin!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

First, we need to use social tools as they’re meant to be used: to share fun thoughts, moments and images with friends, followers, fans, family members and random strangers. The goal is to ingrain your hashtag into attendee’s brains. Your attendees are social sharers, so give them fun content to share. Hashtags have taken over.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We are building technology for the future but have forgotten that our users still rely on a brain that hasn’t changed in 40,000 years. Wemimo Abbey, the diverse co-founder behind Esusu, shares the Inspirational story behind his innovative startup and the challenges he and his co-founder faced along the way. Roundtable | 11:00 am.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). The event format is a lot of fun. Don’t believe me? Thursday, August 15.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. Jack McDade , Founder of Statamic. Never stop learning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. I kid, my brain is a colander with extra-large holes; I need all the help I can get. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 20, 2022! Today’s theme is more. Apparently, the answer is yes.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. How do you relate to my story? I see a lot of folks identify with this story as well. So these are some of the stories we tend to tell ourselves, right? Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It’s simply your brain doing its job.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. How do you relate to my story? I see a lot of folks identify with this story as well. So these are some of the stories we tend to tell ourselves, right? Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It’s simply your brain doing its job.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. With this in mind, you could include stories in your auction marketing materials that illustrate how your programs have helped kids learn to read. Understand your audience. Social media.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. More information here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tell a story. And having your own stories, like really great stories about the volunteering that you’re doing, or the experience you’re having with your beneficiaries and being able to tell those stories. So that was really fun to see. These are simple, this kind of warm-up. What are some. I like that.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 2, 2024

The Gift of Enrichment funded activities like toys and puzzles to support animals’ brain development. Donors could purchase whichever package aligned with their giving motivations and get a fun eCard to send to family and friends in return. Explain the contribution’s impact and share beneficiaries’ stories to strengthen your messages.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just finished up on January 10 th so we thought we’d call out some of the products and trends that we hope are fun and interesting to nonprofit techies. NPR did an amusing story on this biometric device. It got a CES 2014 Innovations Award.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I’m back from Thanksgiving break and now have mashed potatoes for brains. Plus, an update to my RadioPublic story from last week and new Apple charts. Today’s main story is one best told in a couple parts. Now, part two of this story is how Hinge got lucky with this viral moment. Stuff(ing)! My bet is on the latter.

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