Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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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

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Adaptability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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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. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. That’s why you need energizers. Movement can really help.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In a February paper, scientists at Alphabet-backed DeepMind describe what they call a “data-driven” approach for teaching AI to control computers. Adept’s ostensible differentiator is a brain trust of AI researchers hailing from DeepMind, Google and OpenAI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. They told me how they worked with area facilities to bring regular yoga practices and writing workshops to the 14 to 18-year-olds, and I saw the feedback that some of the girls had given about the massive difference the instruction had made for them. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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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. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Some Quick Reflections on Instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP) research and are also becoming increasingly impactful in practice. Scaling up LMs has been shown to improve performance across a range of NLP tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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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. They can share samples of their writing to illus­trate key concepts such as simplicity and clarity, and they can teach tips on editing and proofreading. Pretty good, but bland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. 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.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

You’re following the instructions, and it’s all like bang bang bang — that’s a great feeling. 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. It’s almost like Lego how it’d all click together. Kaws and Murakami are inspirations as well.

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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. Designing good failure modes that are funny, instructive, fair, and supportive, can increase visitor interest and engagement with interactives. * you lose ?

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue. For your association, providing CE credits isn’t just a benefit for your members— it’s a business.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 27, 2025

There are limits to what you can learn just by talking to an AI modelafter all, humans (even neuroscientists) don't know all the details of how our own brains work. Claude begins to give bomb-making instructions after being tricked into saying "BOMB". Why does it continue to write the sentence, producing bomb-making instructions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain. Creating a sense of urgency helps your donor’s brain prioritize your email as something that needs to be opened. Then pick your favorite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. Do you have step-by-step instructions for feedburner?).

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Rather, for example: we try to prevent crime both by making it difficult and unlikely to succeed and by teaching our children that its wrong. [20] Though see here for discussion of the philosophical questions that teaching values as a means of control can raise. 20] And both aspects play a role in determining the crime rates.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

When I asked her why, she highlighted one of the books central teachings: When you seek the truth beneath your anxious thoughts, you discover that many of them arent real. Its this very materialist viewpoint that is dominant in the left hemisphere [of the brain]. The left hemisphere of the brain creates the anxiety spiral.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

But when one of her exasperated targets called her a small-brained little twerp, Susan got mad. At the end of the night, as Lewis was leaving, Susan asked if she could access the system on her own in order to teach herself how to navigate RSTS. Well, you better catch it. It was her first time misrepresenting herself.

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