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. Stay informed and empowered with the knowledge and skills to leverage AI effectively for nonprofit success. Natural Language Processing (NLP): The ability of machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For associations, AI acts like a digital brain that can understand and respond to each member’s unique needs and interests. Understanding AI and Its Capabilities Think of AI as a smart assistant that can learn from data and make helpful suggestions, much like how Netflix recommends shows based on what you’ve watched before.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. It’s a real skill to navigate and guide the online commons and know how and when to react. Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

Your brain treats conflict like a physical threat. When faced with conflict, the brain reacts as if were under physical attack. But in the context of modern day-to-day relationships with family, friends, or colleagues, these brain responses can backfire. Resilience is a skill you can build.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In part two of this series on the skills you need to be a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about how to engage your audience emotionally through creative storytelling. In this post, I’ll focus on the creative skills involved in storytelling. . In this post, I’ll focus on the creative skills involved in storytelling. .

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

Once you’ve signed on for the voyage, know that every AI from ChatGPT to DALL-E has a different personality and skill set. AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. What Can the Bots Do for You? Of course not.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

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. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Nintendo sneakily announced Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain , a new educational puzzle game for the Switch that sees the revival of a franchise that previously appeared on the DS handheld (and later ported to Wii U’s Virtual Console ). BigBrainAcademy : Brain vs. Brain is coming to #NintendoSwitch on 12/03!

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

But computer “brains” are useless without the skeletons that give humanoid robots their formand the many components that make up those skeletons need to come from somewhere. Traditionally linear actuation isnt good for load, rotational is. This gives the best of both.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Founding and running a successful business requires many skills, and propelling one’s self on a board in Miami waters is decidedly not the first one that comes to mind. They help me unwind, disconnect, and get my blood and brain pumping in new ways, making me a better leader when I am on the clock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is a highly skilled device for doing sort of one thing and one thing really, really well. I think that that movie is more about self-awareness, like being completely freely autonomous in the world, and that’s not what we’re talking about with Argo.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. Key Takeaway : People starting to put more thought into the area of data visualization, but in order to pull it off nonprofits need to have folks on staff that have journalistic, data analysis and graphic design skills.

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The Next Web

JUNE 22, 2013

Set up your startup for long-term success by seeking partners and team members whom are on the page as you are, but also balance you out by presenting different traits, skills, and viewpoints. Are you right-brained? It’s time to take on some left-brained hires to encourage balance.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

Although some of todays models can generalize a skill across similar problems, they struggle to transfer those skills across more complex tasks requiring multiple steps. AI scientist have long been after general algorithms that can solve tasks across a wide range of problemsnot just the ones theyre trained on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved. Think Web 1.0

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Organizations also lose valuable institutional knowledge and skills when experienced employees quit, hampering innovation, continuity and long-term strategy. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. When employees feel unappreciated, resentment builds.

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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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The Next Web

MARCH 30, 2013

I asked a panel of nine successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What’s your best tip for honing what seems to be an increasingly important startup “skill” — your design chops? To hone your skills, start reading design blogs and visiting sites that showcase good design, such as D-lists. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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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. Night owls vs. early birds. An un-timed break.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good Since 2005 I’ve volunteered off and on at a local non-profit called C.E.O. Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change.

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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. “ In Silicon Valley,Steve Jobs was famous for it. Henry David Thoreau said famously, “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns her/his rookie smarts and is still able to retain her/his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Your brain doesn't have to work hard to be successful. She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first. Your brain gets absorbed in the story and it drops its guard. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Visualization Techniques.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2025

Of course, its terrific to use them together in much the same way as you may use both your math and verbal skills. FINAL THOUGHTS: AI wont replace your human brain, but it can give it a boost. The two categories of AI with which you should be familiar are predictive and generative. And you dont need to be a tech wizard to use it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier. by Eric Jensen.

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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. Studies have linked entrepreneurs’ chances of success with their social skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout. Was it an acquired skill? How much and what types of support they must work on their burnout immunity skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain. c-some sort of social rating system against whatever critical identified in point a - to do it right would take some programming skills. About those memory lapses.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Jeff Wetzler Today, Wetzler shares these insights with us: Question: Do you believe both introverted and extraverted people can be equally successful at learning and then using the skills you teach in your book? Question: Why is it so important to master only one skill you teach at a time? Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

” I’ve gone back to his workbook based on his first book to practice and improve visualization skills and thinking as well as drawing. I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. It will also equip you with the skills to: Strategically enhance your nonprofit’s online visibility by utilizing templates, case studies, and best practices in communication. Equip yourself with the skills to put the power of storytelling to work for your nonprofit.

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