Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. What is your techniques or process visualizing data? Lay it out where you can really look at it. Establish the underlying coordinates.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, 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.

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Tableau

JUNE 30, 2022

Some of you may remember Steve Martin’s 1980s movie “The Man With Two Brains.” It also requires you to put your knowledge out in public. I always have, and will, encourage people to share their knowledge, no matter where they are on their journey. Add to the wider knowledge of your communities. Eric Parker , OneNumber.

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Tableau

JUNE 30, 2022

Some of you may remember Steve Martin’s 1980s movie “The Man With Two Brains.” It also requires you to put your knowledge out in public. I always have, and will, encourage people to share their knowledge, no matter where they are on their journey. Add to the wider knowledge of your communities. Eric Parker , OneNumber.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A Brief History of Foundation Models We are in a time where simple methods like neural networks are giving us an explosion of new capabilities, said Ashish Vaswani, an entrepreneur and former senior staff research scientist at Google Brain who led work on the seminal 2017 paper on transformers. million users.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

We identified the need for a strategy to avoid the “cold start problem.&# When social web sites are designed to support a community – you need to think through the content and engage strategy because people don’t see the value of a social network unless the social network is there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Movement helps wake them up. Even just a simple stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Take for example, Ideablob.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The best templates are developed based on eye-tracking data and knowledge of user habits and expectations. All future customizations are not too challenging because of the intimate knowledge the creator has of the template. To do this, you can use two techniques. They’re well balanced, ergonomic and intuitive.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

Three teams successfully uncovered the models hidden objective using techniques including interpretability with sparse autoencoders (SAEs), behavioral attacks, and training data analysis. Second, we conduct an unblinded follow-up study of eight techniques for auditing the model, analyzing their strengths and limitations.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This year, we designed state-of-the-art serving techniques for large models , improved automatic partitioning of tensor programs and reworked the APIs of our libraries to make sure all of those developments are accessible to a wide audience of users. Bottom: Illustration of the CollectiveEinsum technique. This effort, ?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

You should be armed with the knowledge of what worked and what didn’t work this year, and be forward-thinking in your approach to create an attainable, yet ambitious plan. With this knowledge, you can begin creating a plan for the future. So, let’s touch some more on these fundraising techniques. Fundraising Calendar for 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“The path to get there has been a bit like Deep Mind’s AlphaGo project — a myriad of different techniques, ML, AI, rules based optimisation etc. “From Håvards experience in the industry they decided to pivot to serving [property] developers who then give the software to their in-house and external architects. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For most of artificial intelligences history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep insights into human cognition, or fundamental advances in our understanding of the brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0

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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

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants. 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

APRIL 4, 2010

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. This helped us bring in people with knowledge who are not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. Personal Productivity in Practice. .”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I have some techniques. If you look at my page, I’m just giving away knowledge because my social media presence is what draws people in. I have a very logical brain, so I needed something to explain the woo-woo mystical realm in a way that my conscious mind could understand. I use that knowledge to drive my content and courses.

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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. It can be overwhelming to keep up with incoming chat messages and documents that arrive at our inbox everyday.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2015

QLI [a healthcare company that we profile in the book] provides rehabilitation services to people with brain and spinal cord injuries, so its high-level success drivers revolve around providing high-quality medical care to patients. QLI does not choose to be fluid because it is a cool new management technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service. Sharing your knowledge and expertise will empower your readers and inspire them to take action.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

At the same time, the study of LLM brains, and especially, mechanistic interpretability, seeks to discover how a model executes a given task. This has parallels in studying biological brains and minds. For example, there are cases of LLM encrypting information using steganography techniques (Roger & Greenblatt, 2023).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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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

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. More practically, it suggests Claude can learn something in one language and apply that knowledge when speaking another. So we look inside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science. When you’re constantly jumping between Facebook, email and texts, however, your brain has to divide its limited resources.

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