TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

As you’ll see through the book, people don’t always give you the whole story right up front. And that deeper story is even more interesting and important than the first one you get,” shares Wetzler. Question: Why is it so important to master only one skill you teach at a time? Wetzler : Absolutely.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. I find the “ Thank You – Story Driven ” model. Success story – Enter key details or plot points of a story that demonstrates the organization’s impact. was the nonprofit.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

I want a program director who can write compelling stories about the experiences of our participants. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Write compelling stories. Tactics and Tips. Hire staff who can write.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

When we launched the annual challenge four years ago, nonprofits and libraries were just picking up on the power of digital stories. If you want to make your story to pop with data, try infographics and maps. and covered every stage of production from finding your story to distribution. Want to move your images into motion?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Old English word made the shortlist for Oxford University Presss’ 2024 Word of the Year (though it ultimately lost to brain rot ). Historically, the term has been tied to teaching and knowledge-sharing, with roots stretching back nearly a thousand years.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. I asked the students what else does that?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What''s The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Or maybe you have a great story to write up for your website. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Teach yourself to be more productive. Secure funding from five new grant partners?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The company totally backed me and had me flying around the US hosting these Excel training sessions because I just genuinely loved to teach Excel. He wrote, basically, “Hey, I love your teaching style. I host these different high-energy Excel parties, essentially, where I come in and I teach a ton of free content.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training. But it still didn't prepare me for the nerves I faced when teaching at juvenile hall for the first time. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie. I asked "how can I help?"

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Deployed enough times, the brain encodes this response as a habit, eventually creating an automatic, default response to stress – i.e., a Protective Pattern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For example, Ana-Marie Jones from Card Can Help shared how her small agency has implemented an effective social media strategy. I was able to capture some of her story with a FLIP camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Haje was mildly surprised and pretty excited after reading Paul ’s story about his favorite podcasting app Pocket Casts going open source. PDT, subscribe here. Good afternoon, and welcome to the final week of October!

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Source stories. Do the story and narrative help donors see how they can be on the “good” side? Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work. This class will teach you the nuts and bolts of copywriting that raises money. Revise drafts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What''s The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What''s The Future Of Business? His advice?

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

The biggest story out of the conference for me at least, came from a 23 year old Perth resident, Michael Sheldrick. I spoke with him afterwards to pick his brain on how he got involved with such an ambitious global project. Checking analytics will allow you to visualize the effectiveness of your content strategy efforts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Despite many distractions in our first full week of the new year, we published a full slate of stories exploring different aspects of entrepreneurship, fundraising and investing. “Gaming is a unique combination of science and art, left and right brain,” said Gigi Levy-Weiss of NFX. Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What''s The Future Of Business? His advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Susan Seggerman, co-founder of Games for Change, introduced Stephen with a great story. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

After hearing a story from a peer. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. You need to begin with sharing some stories about how other nonprofits are getting value from listening. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. This requires stepping back.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

I'm a big fan of Marcus Buckingham 's work, teachings and books, so I was eager to read his book, co-authored by Ashley Goodall. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. He addresses more than 250,000 audiences around the globe each year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I'm a big fan of Marcus Buckingham 's work, teachings and books, so I was eager to read his book, co-authored by Ashley Goodall. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. He addresses more than 250,000 audiences around the globe each year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

I'm a big fan of Marcus Buckingham 's work, teachings and books, so I was eager to read his book, co-authored by Ashley Goodall. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. He addresses more than 250,000 audiences around the globe each year.

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Work Cisco Culture Question 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

I'm a big fan of Marcus Buckingham 's work, teachings and books, so I was eager to read his book, co-authored by Ashley Goodall. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. He addresses more than 250,000 audiences around the globe each year.

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Work Cisco Culture Question 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library's collection. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading.

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