Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Poll a group of friends and you’ll realize: Most people hate read receipts. Participants said they were far more aware of read receipts in conversations with a romantic interest than with family, friends, or workers. If you’re playing that game, be careful: “We teach people how to treat us. percent).

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit that recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders who make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. Written by Blake Becker.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2021

His efforts to present work that met the needs of Members of Congress drove him to learn more, research more, and teach more around data visualization. . She was a member of her department’s DEI Committee and a member of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) affinity group. linkedin twitter. Alice Feng. linkedin twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The platform lets teachers create “tables” where students sit together in smaller groups, where they can work together. The tables are also opened up before a class starts, and students can go from one to the other to chat with others before the class begins.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life. It also feels that sometimes genx is being forgotten in this conversations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one. How long is the onboarding process?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

So Pace, which launched out of private beta today, wants to address this fallacy by creating small-group training classes for people interested in taking care of their emotional and mental health. Investors include Nellie and Max Levchin , Jeff Weiner , Emilie Choi , Ben Silbermann , Box Group, and SV Angel. It is launching with $1.9

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program. Haven’t We Had This Conversation Before? Those countries may not strike you as very similar at first, but let me explain.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

In our Thought Leadership Spotlight, we’ll be hosting a conversation about organizational resilience and embracing a digital-first future. You’ve probably already read about Dr. Jane Goodall’s appearance for The Power of Hope: A Conversation with Dr. Jane Goodall, and Leslie Odom, Jr.’s And of course, looking forward to networking.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Also, for university administrators, budgeting meetings require a larger conference room while one-on-one conversations are in private offices. For these different activities, energy needs vary. These assumptions may be helpful but are not entirely accurate; otherwise CO2 emissions would be decreasing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. Some of the most interesting conversations I’ve had about the future of libraries doesn’t start with a discussion of how we use the library now, or what the library means to us today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in “ unpresenting &# workshops. We had a small group and each of us had to speak in front of the group while Heather coached us. Happy, sad, angry, etc can help open the conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I Sponsor, Sponsor, Sponsor!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Spectra Gram: This is a full group exercise that you can use to bring out ideas or different views on the topic. I learned this one from “Gunner” from Aspiration. It takes time and good to do with a smaller group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference. We need to normalize those conversations, and then involve our children in acting with us for the climate. Pictured: Devi Thomas’ sons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. First as an adjunct professor, I’m always interested in seeing how others teach their classes, particularly how the content is chunked and the activities.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

They feel their philanthropic investments are de-risked when they evaluate opportunities as a group with unique perspectives and when they can experience community building in the process. But as the head of my family foundation, I believe we have to start conversations around wealth at a younger age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Without intentional efforts to include underrepresented groups, tech risks becoming a field that reinforces existing inequalities. This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!).

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Tableau

JUNE 15, 2021

The group supported a virtual Tableau Conference that shined with character, scrambled to help virtual user groups with training and content, and embraced projects illuminating society’s greatest challenges. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire. Think of someone who has: led and evangelized with kindness and respect.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Participate in targeted groups. Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and other social networks offer groups, known as communities on Google+, as a feature on their channels. As a business, there’s an opportunity to join groups related to the interests of your audience and participate in the discussions happening within each group.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And a new AI-powered tutoring system, dubbed Maia, can converse with doctors about the virtual environment and answer questions, reducing the need for one-size-fits-all written instructions. The system can detect in real time when trainees make a mistake, reducing the risk of them making dangerous errors when working with real-life patients.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics. Are you having conversations within your association about declining trust, credibility and authority? Many execs reinforced the idea that communications should be clear and transparent.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

This work includes everything from acknowledging the role that enslaved people played in building and establishing institutions, to the crucial conversations around renaming buildings and removing statues. The post Charitable Giving in Higher Education: A Conversation with CASE’s Sue Cunningham first appeared on npENGAGE.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Gary Chou, an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, teaches people how to launch a startup by taking an entirely contrary approach. By taking your time to figure out exactly what that is with an expendable venture, you have a higher chance of finding success with wider groups of consumers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. But I’ve also had a lot of conversations with the IT and security folks on the business side to help them understand what are the challenges that the newsroom is facing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . It can serve as an anchor for additional conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. ” 3.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th). What does that mean for you?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! When : 10:30 a.m.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The group rebranded to Graham & Walker at the end of 2021, alongside an announcement that they’d raised a $10 million fund. Graham & Walker’s Demo Day for this group is scheduled to take place on March 2nd, 2022. Haje wrote up the details of the rebrand — and the thinking behind the new name — right here.

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