Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The company's conversational Gemini Live will soon be able to view live video and screen sharing, a feature Google previously demoed as Project Astra. The Astra demo made waves as it demonstrated a more natural way to interact with the AI.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 20, 2023

Join us for this highly interactive, panel conversation webinar to gain valuable insights and advice from faith-based fundraising experts, including Dan Kearns, Executive Director for the Society of St.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Through real-life stories and research-backed strategies, she breaks down 10 key conversations that help you build influence, set boundaries, and operate from a position of power. Your leader might be younger than you, expertise matters more than hierarchy, and face time happens through Zoom. Which, if were honest, might be often.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 27, 2023

Join us for this highly interactive, panel conversation webinar to gain valuable insights and advice from faith-based fundraising experts, including Dan Kearns, Executive Director for the Society of St.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

Posted by Deborah Cohen, Staff Research Scientist, and Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Research As virtual assistants become ubiquitous, users increasingly interact with them to learn about new topics or obtain recommendations and expect them to deliver capabilities beyond narrow dialogues of one or two turns.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

One of the main areas that has seen renewed interest due to enhanced capabilities is chatbots and conversational AI. This in turn enables conversational AI and advanced chatbot applications that produce highly contextual and informed responses for users based on custom data models and sources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

The pandemic has drastically altered the ways nonprofits interact with their supporters. While social media is now a common part of every nonprofit’s communication strategy, a common sentiment is that interacting on social media is a poor substitute to in-person interactions. But not all nonprofits are effective on social media.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

For example, interpreter mode made a splash in 2019 and has been offering real-time translations ever since; Assistant can only translate a single phrase now. Family Bell is much beloved, too, allowing Assistant to make custom announcements and interactive checklists, which can be handy for getting kids going in the morning.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Its reflected in every interaction, process, and decision. Or join us at one of our upcoming events to keep the conversation going. Building Culture: Designing an Environment Where People and Ideas Thrive Culture is what defines how your organization feels, operates, and evolves. Its paced and purposeful. It grows with culture.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Take this engagement a step further by using interactive features like polls or questions based on the report’s findings to spark conversation and encourage reflection. This interactive format allows for real-time questions and discussions, making the information more accessible.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Right timing: When to make an ask depends on a variety of factors like the donor’s interest, engagement, and giving history. Real relationships: Making an ask for a donation immediately after meeting someone is like asking to borrow a car from someone you just met—there isn’t enough trust built to warrant the interaction. Add context.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Conversely, loyal donors give 42% more over their lifetime and are 70% more likely to leave a planned gift. Below are five stewardship tactics that can transform your donor relationships to create more loyal donors who are excited to give at incrementally higher levels over a longer period of time, no matter what their current giving level.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Determine if your interactions are purely transactional or if youve built actual rapport. Think about how productive each interaction is and what follow-up occurs. Thinking about a time when theyre highly engaged. Inviting them into conversations and acknowledging their expertise turned a skeptic into an advocate.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Overall, Google.org funding recipients report that AI helps them achieve their goals in one third of the time at nearly half the cost. We've turned to generative AI to help us do more with our time and to fill knowledge gaps. This spans industries including education, health, workforce readiness, and more," she said.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In the past week, I had “conversations” with two leaders who talked too much. The drivers of excessive talking As I reflected on these two leaders, I realized they reflected a pattern I’ve seen many times. ” Whenever our conversation reached a natural pause, she would quickly fill the gap with another anecdote.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Otter , the AI-powered meeting assistant and transcription service, is introducing a new AI agent capable of answering spoken questions from meeting participants in real time. A third new AI agentcalled the Otter SDR Agent (short for sales development representative)can be embedded into websites to conduct interactive live demos of products.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved. More specifically explain the authors, you will learn how to explicitly prompt someone to respond in a productive and meaningful way, fostering successful and fruitful interactions.

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Candid

JANUARY 7, 2025

Building authentic partnerships Forging these partnerships starts with rethinking the transactional nature of most donor relationships and for nonprofits to consider what donors can contribute beyond moneytheir time, trust, and curiosity. From the very first interaction, its important to align on partnership values and expectations.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Develop an interactive onboarding chatbot to help new members navigate the offerings. Check Bing out. Like most things, that depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. Adoption Strategy Devi mentioned that small nonprofits have been more motivated to get in front of generative AI tools because it shifts them out of time scarcity to time abundance. How are you addressing concerns?

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We had open discussions about our personal attitudes toward fundraising and role-played donor interactions. These exercises helped build our confidence, enabling us to approach fundraising conversations with authenticity and enthusiasm. Engage in meaningful conversations and radical listening.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

We recruited seniors from the MIT AgeLabs research cohorteach around 70 years old and in the early stages of retirementand then engaged in wide-ranging conversations about their aspirations and fears about these technologies. This will require forms of this AI that are aesthetically compatible with seniors for such personal interactions.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Participants said they were far more aware of read receipts in conversations with a romantic interest than with family, friends, or workers. Yet in recent years, our expectations around response time have escalated. ” Sometimes, people just don’t have the bandwidth for yet another conversation.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

The tile shapes are based on how water interacts with different surfaces at high tide and low tide. To evaluate biodiversity, we will use underwater cameras to capture time-lapse imagery of the marine life that colonizes the tile surfaces. These observations will aid in documenting species diversity and habitat use over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

2) Gain fun face time opportunities with virtual events. In-person events are on hold this fundraising event season, but fortunately, streaming tools like Zoom implemented new features throughout the year that make virtually interacting with guests a lot easier and way more fun. 4) Find new, creative ways to show impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In 2020, these steps will be a response to certain trends and conversations you’ve likely caught wind of over the last few years. The Rise of Giving Experiences and Conversations About Sustainable Impact. Though the notorious Pineapple Fund was a fleeting effort, blockchain is still very much a part of social good conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

All accounts created after January 2018 must have conversion tracking in place in Google Ads and need to have at least one meaningful conversion per month. You should set up the conversion in Google Analytics and import it into Google Ads. Use Maximize Conversions for at least one Campaign. Use Lots of Keywords.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Even going as far as choosing which organizations they interact with based on employee mental wellness and fair treatment. Build relationships effectively Connecting with younger donors isn’t about finding the right single-time marketing tactic. Wherever possible, bring representatives of these demographics onto your full-time staff.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Events, social media, and marketing are only small links in a much bigger chain of interactions with supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? Giving yourself time to get familiar with your new software. 2) Training. 3) Support.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our colleague Stuart Meyer,* who at the time was CEO of the National Barbeque and Grilling Association, a fully virtual organization, made this comment. “We Over time people have come to value the advantages of working at home. There is no commute, and you have more time for family. Today, the idea is more mainstream.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Davidson was right: It not only transformed our conversation, but the entire nature of my day. If we spend even as short of time as we do brushing our teeth nourishing our mind, our findings and the findings of other scientists show that this world would be a different place, he adds. Its not part of our genome.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

January is a great time to look to the year ahead and commit to new goals. Next time youre tempted to troll jobs on LinkedIn, you might pause to consider these five practices for internal professional growth. There isnt a world where technology will ever be as connective as in-person interactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

As a partner to thousands of nonprofits, Classy spends a lot of time learning about what makes each of them successful. A successful nonprofit dedicates time early on to master the details. They set aside time daily to prepare themselves with actions such as: Learning about new tools to enhance their campaigns.

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

We don’t want to spend time worrying about why we have to migrate these legacy servers into the cloud. Technology has ignored culture for a long time,” Thad advised. I need to ensure that we have open conversations, and that people are comfortable challenging ideas and concepts. That’s what every leader wants, right?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

But if March 7 is the only time leaders express appreciation to their teams, theyre missing the mark. Make recognition a daily habit Think about the last time you thanked a colleague for their contributions. If you cant remember, its time to make recognition a habit. Was it last week? Last month?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Several years later, Paul regrets his unwanted unemployment, but at the time there didnt seem to be an alternative. These companions can provide vital social interaction for people fearing judgement or isolation because of their cognitive decline. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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