Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

Note from Beth: Hosting events for your network – where they can meet offline – can be a terrific away to build your network. In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2024

Neural Networks: Algorithms inspired by the human brain that are used in deep learning and other AI applications. Deep Learning: A subset of ML involving neural networks with multiple layers, used for complex pattern recognition. Data Bias: Prejudice or skewed results in AI systems due to biased training data.

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NetWits

JULY 14, 2011

This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s “ 10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter ,&# in which we talked about some of the many ways nonprofit can use social media networks, such as Twitter , as a communications vehicle to support their organization’s larger goals. 1 – Chris Tuttle. 9 – Kerri Karvetski.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

Network for Good. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. Katya Andresen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

How do you make a sensible decision about whether its safe to cross the street when your brain must instantaneously juggle conflicting and related sensory information? One of the last areas of the brain to mature, its responsible for moment-to-moment reactions. Those decisions are made in the prefrontal cortex.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. This works best if you have small network. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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The Next Web

MARCH 4, 2014

I’ve written how creativity works in the brain before, and I found it really useful to understand this process. There’s so much going on in the brain during creativity that science is still trying to pin down exactly how it all works. This network helps us to construct mental images when we’re engaged in these activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. Too much serendipity and I don’t feel like I accomplish anything. What is your system for professional learning? What role does social media play in it?

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A more brainlike artificial neural network is helping make robot hands smarter than ever. Check this one out in action.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

For those backed by major podcast networks, the burden is often shared. Diallo Riddle and Blake LUXXURY Robin, co-hosts of the music podcast One Song , were caught off guard when their network, Hartbeat, insisted on a video format. Video adds a layer of technical complication, says Perry Romanowski, co-host of The Beauty Brains.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Posted by Hussein Hazimeh, Research Scientist, Athena Team, and Riade Benbaki, Graduate Student at MIT Modern neural networks have achieved impressive performance across a variety of applications, such as language, mathematical reasoning , and vision. In standard neural networks, each weight defines a connection between two neurons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

And depending on warm intros or networks also limits the amount of startups an investor considers, which further alienates founders who don’t have the same networks or hail from nontraditional backgrounds. Indeed, it often gets investors tied up in companies destined to collapse for one reason or another.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. Your brain on coffee.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. He is educated about privacy settings on various social networking sites. Creativity is what makes exceptional social media campaigns stand out from the rest. Thinks like a journalist.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

But, one of the things that we did, we announced recently, is a partnership with Lyft, where later this year, we’ll be offering rides on their network in Austin and Miami. And then, when they’re driving folks around on the Lyft network, they’re, I guess wearing two hats, if you will. Okay, so my view [on custom networks] is yes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

But how many of those people do you actually know well, and, more importantly, do you ever connect with them and meet others from their networks? You don’t hang out and spend meaningful time there,” said Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a new professional networking platform that just closed a $2.75

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

A centrally-located Echo device is also a great way to free up space in your brain. They provide a hands-free, screen-free way to set timers (for productivity or pizza) or to stream audio. However, once again the Echo Dot edges out the Echo Pop in terms of extra features.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. 4) Read more books. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. 6) Say “Please” and “Thank You.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

But problems within the brain are more difficult to treat, and for stroke victims rehabilitation is largely left to the body’s own repair mechanisms. But medical science has no method for directly rebuilding those networks — the brain must do so on its own, in its own time. If you lose a leg, prostheses are available.

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Machine Learning Mastery

JULY 9, 2024

At the core of deep learning, it’s a model inspired by the human brain, which we call a neural network. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that has become a cornerstone in many technological breakthroughs.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Connection is fostered through mentorship programs, collaboration and informal networking. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. Pillar 2: Connections Strong social relationships in the workplace can buffer against stress and enhance resilience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

But, being on those networks has taken it’s toll on me. It’s an influx of information in my brain that I really don’t need. I like being connected to the nptech community, and learning what’s happening. I really like reaching out and getting questions answered. It’s time spent I need for other things.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

And when decisions dont work out, the brain updates its modeling of the consequences of actions”I dropped a gallon of milk because it was too heavy for meso that kids eventually learn not to repeat the same behavior. The AI is comprised of three main neural networks. Was that really the right move?

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

And then over the weekend, the dreaded emails and calls came: I had multiple exposures at a networking reception I attended, and both of my boys had exposures at school. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021?

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 16, 2025

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), also known as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), are no longer the stuff of science fiction — they’re here… Continue reading on Medium

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. My brain is trying desperately to stop me, saying things like, What you’re writing right now sucks. My brain fed off this uncertainty to try and stop me from writing because that’s what brains do?—?they

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DonorPerfect

JUNE 1, 2023

The problem may just lie in the anatomy of your brain. Read More » The post Is Your Brain Keeping You from Implementing Change? In fact, there is an entire subgenre of leadership literature specifically aimed at helping people learn to implement change. Do you often have great ideas that you fail to bring to fruition?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Li, Research Scientist, and Sven Dorkenwald, Student Researcher, Connectomics at Google Mapping the wiring and firing activity of the human brain is fundamental to deciphering how we think — how we sense the world, learn, decide, remember, and create — as well as what issues can arise in brain disease or dysfunction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. The main thesis in the book is that in a networked world success depends on how we interact with others. ” In short, nice people can finish first in a networked world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2012

I realized the extent to which my brain was trained to seek out stimulation, and how it wasn't so happy when it didn't get enough. And I know that from now on, I'll be delving much more into why I want to watch something, or play something, or spend time on social networks.

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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. Take two minutes and journal.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The social networking giant’s hardware ambitions are no secret. CTRL-Labs specialized in building wireless input mechanisms, including devices that could transmit electrical signals from the brain to computing devices without the need for traditional touchscreen or physical button inputs.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

They discovered what they’re calling “multimodal neurons” — individual components in the machine learning network that respond not only to images of objects but also sketches, cartoons, and associated text.

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