Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. . ” So, when you really need to get something done, get away from your computer and your conference room, and go for a long walk. It’s not a luxury. ” Senior Leaders Get on Their Walking Shoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Instead of introducing the seatbelt the same way as every other airline safety video, Virgin introduces the standard seatbelt instructions with a twist. The beautiful thing about surprise is it helps make things more interesting and sticky in your brain. It’s like a mental post-it note that tells your brain, remember this.”.

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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. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. These participants clearly understood the concepts of making a ROI case – and how to transfer those techniques to social media. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Ellie taught a great trick. Movement can really help.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Detailed below are some techniques and tools that, once armed with, will enable you to thrive in the space in between. Over-explaining or over-instructing your perspective on how it should be done will not only limit your team’s freedom to think abstractly, it will also prevent them from taking any ownership of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Next month will include NTEN's NTC. Andy is a master at storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

By having an AI observe keyboard and mouse commands from people completing “instruction-following” computer tasks, like booking a flight, the scientists were able to show the system how to perform over a hundred tasks with “human-level” accuracy. Transformers made general intelligence tangible for our field.”

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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. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Photo by James Leventhal.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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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 ! Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. Mindfulness and Reflection – How to use these techniques to help keep your focus. This infographic is an insightful profile of the way people learn in the modern workplace. Two important tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. If you were creating some instructional materials about mobile video blogging in a developing country, like say Cambodia, what are the most important points to cover? My travel hassles combined with sleep deprivation made it really difficult to write complete sentences.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Posted by Mohammad Saleh, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team, and Yinan Wang, Software Engineer, Google Workspace Information overload is a significant challenge for many organizations and individuals today. Human annotators are then given detailed instructions to write a 1-3 sentence summary of the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. It’s not a luxury. ” Senior Leaders Get on Their Walking Shoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. He had us walk around the room following different instructions and then try to find two people and create a triangle. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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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. Even though it does claim to have run a calculation, our interpretability techniques reveal no evidence at all of that calculation having occurred. So we look inside.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

like, a structure in the brain?". which techniques could work here?", "what is the main idea of this proof?", "is this a good way to model the situation?", "can I explain that clearly?", "what caused me to be confused about that?" But okay, we can probably indeed also take an interest in stuff that's "more in the brain".

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

if these different AIs decided to team-up in an effort to disempower humans, or if they each decided to go their own way and to stop working on behalf of the humans theyre supposed to be taking instructions from, then the situation looks quite dire. [37] Individual copies of the same weights are highly correlated in their alignment. [51]

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 18, 2025

But that isnt enough; the base token predictor has a lot of extra modifications piled upon it: fine-tuning/RLHF/many other techniques to improve coherence and behaviour. The misalignment feature is just the lost of the control techniques piled upon the sequence predictor as it reverts to default behaviour. Ya lookin' good today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Its first projects are: BioLM , which seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the fields of computational biology and chemistry. On a longer time horizon is OpenBioML’s BioLM project, which has the vaguer mission of “applying language modeling techniques derived from NLP to biochemical sequences.”

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If instructed to, U3 can run experiments, but U3 doesnt have taste as refined as human researchers at OpenEye. They hold out training data before 2024, instructing models to ponder for hours to predict events in 2025. The main bottleneck to robotics was brains not limbs. Forecasting ability is a broad foundation.

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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. I tell Scott that Susan practiced, even pioneered, techniques still widely used by hackers. One night, Lewis says, he and Kevin decided to solve this mystery using an old-fashioned social engineering technique — tailing Susan’s car.

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Futurism

MARCH 22, 2025

Supplementing creatine is also thought to produce other salubrious effects, promoting brain health, bone health, and even reducing all-around mortality, according to the researchers. They were all put on the same resistance training program of three lifting sessions per week, and instructed to keep track of what they ate in a food log.

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