Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 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. Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control? " The internet: is it changing the way we think?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 6, 2013

The big takeaway on this technique – do not give up after one email. You may feel like you are being overly aggressive, but some perspective – our open rate on first emails is 7%, and on second emails it’s more than double that (correcting for unsubscribes). Good luck hunting for more customers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I’m going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics — so I could stop talking at people and begin talking with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! A quick focus on the solutions without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Today, we are excited to introduce conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in Spaces. This feature is enabled by our state-of-the-art abstractive summarization model, Pegasus , which generates useful and concise summaries for chat conversations, and is currently available to selected premium Google Workspace business customers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Moreover, it turns out that negative information can actually make a pitch more appealing, and the anti-pitch is a technique that some salespeople recommend. Amazon became known as a company whose engineers were intense and elite. What’s more —with an anti-pitch, you’ll stick out from the hiring crowd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The video chat provided a nice opportunity to have conversation in real-time about the relationship between self-care and workplace productivity. This techniques can work, but if there are no workplace norms about respecting each other’s need for quiet time, these techniques can be derailed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I had the pleasure of meeting her earlier this year for an exciting conversation. Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. Majora’s life journey is an inspiring story.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I think weve uncovered a very small fraction of the capabilities of existing foundation models, let alone future ones, said Percy Liang, the centers director, in the opening talk of the first workshop on foundation models. But like transformers, the new technique soon caught fire. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. If you want engagement on social media channels, identify good conversation starters that are relevant to your audience, will ignite their passion or nostalgia about the subject matter. Or just keep your ears open. Engagement'

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

The goal of the first meeting is to open the relationship. Learning about and relating to their interests will open the door to discovery. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they A best practice is to record the details of your conversation in your donor database or nonprofit CRM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Note From Beth: Having good openers (and closers) are essential to the success of your training workshop. Even at the most standard of board meetings, a little connection at the beginning can go a long way, and going outside the comfort zone can lead to some good laughs and even better conversation. Icebreakers Can Be Fun!

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 1, 2022

By leveraging AI to target the right prospects with personalized promotions based on each customer’s unique attributes and purchase history, businesses can streamline customer segmentation and maximize conversions. Increase your workers count to build models in parallel with a large repository of open source and proprietary packages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

The startup operates a conversational messaging platform, which is used by over 100,000 businesses and developers today to build their own messaging and conversational experiences to serve their users and customers. Tens of millions of users in India, including yours truly, remember Gupshup for a different reason, however.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. &# The top answer was “Understand grantee’s unique needs and culture and provide customized approach.&# This data is rich for conversation that can lead to learning for both consultants and nonprofits. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Astroforge’s two co-founders, Gialich and Jose Acain, say they have developed an innovative technique to refine materials in-space — but for now, they’re staying mostly mum on what it involves, and how it solves the myriad technical challenges for which asteroid mining is so notorious. Image Credits: Astroforge (opens in a new window).

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Measuring the effectiveness of your marketing efforts: Set yourself up to track your marketing efforts success by measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) like return on investment, click-through rate, conversion rate, and more. Creating a better user experience (UX) on your website could increase conversion rates by 400%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow. It helps us come to terms with mistakes and clear us for learning.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 24, 2025

From innovative fundraising approaches to data-driven donor engagement, the conversations happening at this years top nonprofit events will shape the future of our sector. This event is open to non-AFP members. The event is a unique opportunity for thought leadership in the nonprofit sector and is only open to Giving Institute members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

What struck me most about the conversation is that consultants, early adopter nonprofits, and free agents all agree that the platform is evolving fast and there is still too much uncertainty for nonprofits to invest a lot of time and resources in Google +. A few activists for privacy rights have had active conversations.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Retrieval-augmented generation is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources. What’s more, the technique can help models clear up ambiguity in a user query. So, What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation? In other words, it fills a gap in how LLMs work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I like to have fun experimenting and that’s just what I’m doing on my Facebook Page , a place for learning, and sharing insights about best practices in social media for networked nonprofits. I learn so much from the conversation threads and people sharing what they do. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). The retreat would be out in the open and get input and ideas for strategic grassroots philanthropy. Big Idea Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

I call this type of fundraising campaign the sponsored Tweet approach where potential donors do not have to open their own check books, but instead re-tweet or use a hashtag to leverage a donation from a corporate sponsor to a charity. What is your repertoire of engagement techniques to inspire people to move up the ladder?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. We opened with a plenary session providing an opportunity for participants to introduce themselves and do a couple of icebreakers. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Conversational AI adoption has been hampered by deployment complexity, challenges to scaling efficiently and lack of consumer trust. “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to labor shortages at call centers, opening up opportunities for the adoption of conversational AI technology. store hours).

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

link] Their scientifically proven spaced repetition technique means you'll pick up words more effectively as you hear them at intervals that lead to long-term retention. Qlango helps you master 6,679 essential words that you'll actually use in real conversations — so you don't need to worry about wasting time on impractical topics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

UK-based breast cancer awareness charities, have consistently used innovative marketing techniques to educate and empower people about the importance of early breast cancer detection. It was daring and controversial and aimed to destigmatize mental health issues and encourage open conversations.

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