TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Dishwashing, door-opening robots: Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method to teach robots to perform tasks like opening and walking through doors — and more. Image Credits: Tel Aviv University This “semantic typography” paper is more fun, but also extremely clever. Well, it’s not quite this simple.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. Soul Machines’ end goal is to teach a digital person how to make goal-based (and one day, value-based) decisions, which is still a long way off. “At I wonder if I’m just bad at emoting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Adam Grant said it well, “Having fun isn’t an enemy of efficiency.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Opportunities to Make Your Blog Juicy Bay Area folks • I'm teaching a Jumpstart Your Blog! I'll be one of the Write Brain | Essential Content Development workshop leaders at BlogHer '11 on August 5th. • workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley on July 9th Everyone! My next Juicy Blogging E-Course runs from September 21-October 12.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun! Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

On Day 3, when it was time to focus on more time on teaching the tools, we started with an opening exercise designed to help identify those in the room who had knowledge. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

Volunteering goes beyond just being something fun to do; it decreases stress, too. When you assist others, your body releases dopamine in the brain, which has a positive effect on how you feel. Volunteering as a family is a great way to teach important lessons to your children. Teaches new skills. Combats stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. It starts by teaching you basic vocabulary that you’d imagine kids might learn (“cat,” “dog,” “tree,” etc.) Rosetta Stone.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Being in Moscow in October and participating in a brain storming session for a Russian professional fundraising organization. Teaching a reluctant client how to write grants; helping him with his first grant; and hearing him 6 months later talk like a seasoned grantwriting pro! Riding my horse in my first cattle roundup.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. Another option is to pay your star writers small bonuses for editing copy or teaching staff how to edit and polish writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Support a fun icebreake r. Instead having people sit and interview each other, I had them write down the interview questions on 3×5 card and go for 20 minute walk around the hotel and do a walking interview, ten minutes teach. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When do you have the most fun making your work? That’s probably the most fun part. Jim Henson as well, the Muppets and Sesame Street and that sort of design philosophy, and even how he was as a guy and what he wanted to teach kids. Even if it’s s**t, and you put it online and someone will go, “Oh, that’s f **g cool.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. Successful social marketers tap into people???s

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. I planted in their brains the possibility that this might not be easy, might not be hygienic, that they might lose. However, failure isn’t always fun. There are some games out there with failure modes so “fun” that people try to attain them again and again.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Unlike a fun run or a 5K fundraiser, you don’t need to map out a racecourse or organize volunteers to man your event.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s fun, it’s entertaining, and then you talked to the people on Tinder who are also doing it, and now you have a shared live experience. We take ideas and don’t just leave them on a piece of paper, they become product ideas that are elegant, that are simple, that are fun, that are delightful. “If This is a fun time of life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. It also provided a nice transition between sections, giving people a little brain break to digest the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Philanthropy doesn't have to be an adults only activity, giving can be part of your family fun. Teach Your Kids About Charities: YouthGive. And this year, Harry sent some of his birthday loot to the Sharing Foundation , making me proud that he is following my tradition of giving to celebrate a birthday. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that. In fact, there are two types of goals, which I’m going to teach you next. And you have to always keep your impact growing, scaling activities in balance with your capacity, because, you know, it’s no fun. . Those are not easy to update. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Because it’s 2022, things are crazy. So I really need you to hear this.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. remember I talked about the brain?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I got to try both current iterations, and they were a lot of fun, though I admit my teeth were clenched the whole time. The cute koala graphic was designed by pro skier Lynsey Dyer, and proceeds go to nonprofits aimed at teaching women and girls of all backgrounds outdoor skills. Really looking forward to seeing that one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Joyful: If I were to continue with another “F” word, it would be fun.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What it could do: Teach you what it’s like to build a robot. turned out to be better at making kids want an NES than helping them play it — some commenters have said that playing games designed for it is more fun if you have another human press the controller’s buttons on the controller instead of the bot. Release year: 1982.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Joyful: If I were to continue with another “F” word, it would be fun.

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The Verge

MAY 30, 2020

Which is probably why I’m knitting so much — it’s nice to fidget while my brain is focused on somewhere else. teach me knitting last year so I’d stop playing Dead Cells while I was watching TV. So that leaves me with the basics: garter stitch, stockinette, ribbing, moss stitch. The things you can do on autopilot. Image: Anna Hrachovec.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Tell us how the weather is, what your organization does, anything fun you want to tell us. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Leeann is saying, “Do you have a successful procedure to teach finance and [inaudible 00:46:13] pledges count?”

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Secrets aren’t fun. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. And Rose, you had to go remote overnight.

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