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. Please get training!

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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. Data Bias: Prejudice or skewed results in AI systems due to biased training data. Stay informed and empowered with the knowledge and skills to leverage AI effectively for nonprofit success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The physical space where you deliver your training is just one piece of the instructional design puzzle.

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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. Training is the magic that transforms LLMs from a blank slate into a bot, or a machine with a ‘personality.’ AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. Of course not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sudden departures lead to expenses related to recruiting, hiring, training, as well as lost productivity and project disruptions. Organizations also lose valuable institutional knowledge and skills when experienced employees quit, hampering innovation, continuity and long-term strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. Design for Participants To Apply. Flip It!

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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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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. That means there's no application to fill out, no interview, no training, no long-term commitment. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. Simple, right?

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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. Donor outreach and touchpoints Grab this free Major Gifts GPT ,trained on the latest fundraising best practices, to help you brainstorm the best ways to engage with your major donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. Pictured above).

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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

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces.

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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. They need to have their eyes focused and trained on the road or in their mirrors. 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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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Foundation Models Defined A foundation model is an AI neural network trained on mountains of raw data, generally with unsupervised learning that can be adapted to accomplish a broad range of tasks. This chart highlights the exponential growth in training compute requirements for notable machine learning models since 2012.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

A lack of investment in volunteer infrastructure Theres substantial evidence that volunteering improves individual well-being , reduces loneliness , and builds new skills. Recruiting, training, recognizing, and retaining volunteers requires dedicated resources, yet funding for these efforts is almost nonexistent.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. ” This core competency of organizing is vital to the success of individuals in the training field. As it is difficult to make the most of the training if the concern of the trainees lies elsewhere. Assigning Priority. Avoid Distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. Led by Liz Ngonzi, CFRE, this free training will not only explain how to use a simple storytelling framework to enhance the clarity of your organization’s digital communications. Equip yourself with the skills to put the power of storytelling to work for your nonprofit.

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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. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. 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

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

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. Adopting eccentric viewing is thus best accomplished by working with a trained low vision therapist. And this is where the MagnaFlyer comes in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. They also ensure that thousands of homeless and abandoned animals get the socialization and training they deserve. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The more you train yourself to listen for content, emotion, and action, the less you'll have room to take in external distractions. 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?

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You can practice skills, such as presenting in an online setting, writing professional communications, and asking for feedback. Take advantage of the many virtual training and certification courses available to gain valuable skillsets while you work from home. Ask your manager what resources are available.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This week brings the new book, The Mindfulness Edge , a fascinating manual that teaches you how through mindfulness training you can become a better leader. Mindfulness training also helps leaders to make decisions that have better impacts on gross margins and expenses," explains the book's author Tenney.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Upskilling, or helping employees develop new skills to advance their careers, is increasingly of interest to employers as macroeconomic pressures make recruiting a challenge. VCs have taken note of the opportunity, investing billions into an assortment of companies in the skilling space over the past year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement learning (RL) can enable robots to learn complex behaviors through trial-and-error interaction, getting better and better over time. A diagram of RL at scale. trials from deployment.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today, some people who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disabilities continue to perceive the “storm” element of the word as violent or negative, while the “brain” aspect places too much emphasis on intellectual ability. Some of these names and labels are also culturally appropriative and can be offensive. Illiterate.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I call it the brain. Know that this is a journey, not a race. When people think of a development department, most put emphasis on the fundraisers, which is great but there is a whole other side to it – the operations. This is the team that pays attention to the details. We look at tons of data and make it make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They want their brains to matter. They commit to each other individually as well as recruit from their individual networks to train and support their nonprofit partners in the year to come and beyond. Campus Party organizer Futura Networks also recognizes that a big driver for young techies is…social relevance.

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