TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The tech world has not offered much succor to those affected by things like locked-in syndrome, ALS, and severe strokes, but startup Cognixion aims to with a novel form of brain monitoring that, combined with a modern interface, could make speaking and interaction far simpler and faster. Overhauling decades-old brain tech.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 18, 2025

Muse by Interaxon, a neurotechnology startup, unveiled Muse S Athena, a consumer wearable that can deliver advanced cognitive fitness insights. Read More

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Andrew’s challenge wasn’t an empty one: his team could measure the effectiveness of interventions we might try and see how well they work. We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Simple, right? Not even hundreds.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Music and exercise: Amplifies performance Music isnt just about setting the vibe for your workoutit has measurable physiological and psychological benefits that can push you to perform at your best. It boosts your mood and reduces anxiety, enhances brain function, while building self-esteem and body image.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

One way you can measure this competition — I don’t know if I love it, but you’re just going to tell me it’s my job to figure it out, but we’re gonna try anyway — one way to measure this competition is miles driven. Is that the right measure? Is that a measure you use? It’s really an apples to oranges measurement.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). The participants spent two nights in a sleep lab where the researchers measured their brain activity, looking at alertness and ability to concentrate. Find a true metric to measure your tasks. Night owls vs. early birds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

many orgs need to either rely on metrics which are indirect measures of long term impact—like the number of repeat clients, client satisfaction, or percent of client issues resolved—or invest in expensive, long-term longitudinal research. Nonprofits need to “ loose their gut and get serious about measurement.”

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I've been having a very enjoyable time, importuning all sorts of people I admire to address some of the topics that are close to CTK's heart: nonprofit technology , nonprofit management, best practices, outcomes measurement, impact assessment, nonprofit advocacy, social media, and mission focus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Using a cheap hosting might seem like a great way to save money, but discount web hosting providers cut corners in their security measures to provide a low cost to you. They have full security measures , documentation, and native support for WordPress websites. Recap of the six security measures.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. But do they measure the real impact we’re making in the lives of our beneficiaries? Meet Kevin and “Sophia” (who anonymously shared her story with my team). Data is now a core resource.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

While not as rewarding as certainty, this sense of clarity sets peoples expectations, which creates a calming sense of predictability in the brain. She might also share that the list of names is supposed to be shared with her in the next couple weeks, giving team members a window into the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Using machine learning to unlock mysteries in biology Many of our researchers are fascinated by the extraordinary complexity of biology, from the mysteries of the brain, to the potential of proteins, and to the genome, which encodes the very language of life. We are inspired by the great potential of this work.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. We use technology really well in a measured and strategic way. We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. Website: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions. With this in mind, tailor these behavioral science approaches to your NPO, and don’t forget to measure and adjust your efforts down the road! However, this is not necessarily true.

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

It combines methods and theories of psychology and linguistics to derive a fuller understanding of how the brain processes language. The advent of neuroimaging has made it possible to examine brain activity—what areas of the brain and neurons are firing—when a person is processing language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. I still feel like I haven't totally wrapped my brain around all this. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. And, it will make your brain hurt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I try to walk between 15K steps a day using my fitbit to measure it. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me “How the heck do you make the time to do this? What have you cut from your schedule.?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Storify here ). I kicked off the morning session with a discussion on measuring impact with colleagues from VolunteerMatch – Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

If you start a positive habit and see that it has a positive effect upon your business or health outcomes, your brain is more willing to utilize resources to continue that behavior and scan for new ones,” said Shawn Achor , author of The Happiness Advantage. How to hit the positivity tipping point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

He talked about how empathy is felt in the limbic part of brain. Dogs have an under developed limbic brain and thus feel empathetic all the time, while iguanas don't feel empathy because they bump into each other.). He explained the difference between dogs and iguanas and their ability to feel empathy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. I hope that participants took away from our session, if nothing else, that content curation requires the human brain, as Robin Good points out.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Thats when youll be asked to provide detailed financial reports, budgets, and plans for executing your program and measuring your success. If a funder likes your Letter of Inquiry, they’ll invite you to submit more details about what you would like them to fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I overheard comments like: “my brain is in overdrive,” “I can’t wait to try this in my work,” and “I wish the conference were longer.” Measuring relationships? Today’s tech tools just make it easier for more of us to appreciate, track, and measure the qualities social scientists have been investigating for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, eventually falling to just 0.004 percent. Garan quoted a colleague: If the dinosaurs had a space program, theyd still be here. Crisis, such as it was, averted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. Tell me about charity:water’s approach/philosophy to measurement? charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels. Data Measurement' If you are going to put the number labels on your data lines, delete the gridlines altogether. Just a few tweaks there cleans up the data visualization. Step 4: Directly Label. Just click on the legend and hit your delete key.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

Nonprofit organizations often measure fundraising results such as donation volume, engagement on social media , and participants at fundraising events without knowing why people take these actions. The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. Understand Donor Values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. The researchers have come up with a Zoom Fatigue scale so you can measure how exhausted you are after meetings. It has been dubbed “Zoom Fatigue,” or feeling drained after a day in front of the camera, is becoming a part of our daily work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Grit is a long-term metric, and though difficult to measure, it is a truer indicator than IQ or SAT scores and other static quantitative measures on the potential to achieve ultimate success. His opening plenary helped elucidate the absolute value of persistence in achieving our goals. Does our staff?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Ng previously led one of Google’s AI research divisions, Google Brain, and briefly served as VP and chief scientist at Baidu.) “When I began teaching AI at Stanford, I was motivated to research how we can measure people’s skills accurately using modern technologies.”

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