Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. What problems are you trying to solve? In addition to analytics, you will also need to get feedback from actual users of the site. Objectives of the redesign. Target audiences. Secondary and below. Nice-to-haves.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 4, 2014

Twitter, and to a lesser extent Facebook, is often times unpredictable; but you can increase your chances for success by implementing a few best practices, and creating consistency with your posting technique. Before using an outside hashtag, ensure you fully understand the conversation that’s happening around it first.

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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! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions I've been asked to present a session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on "Technical Management Techniques for Managers". Get your team working to understand the problem right away. What's the possibility of the issue getting worse? Assemble the team.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. They can handle more complex and dynamic conversations.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. None of these constitute a conversation. Both have seen major improvements in recent years thanks to the arrival of new machine learning techniques coupled with abundant data and cheap computation. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No matter how much marketing techniques evolve, that equation doesn’t change. Customers can become emotional when you solve a problem that’s causing stress. Generative AI promises to add conversation, depth, and individualized support to those interactions across a variety of areas. There is no neutral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. Breakout rooms are a feature in Zoom that allows you to put people in smaller rooms for more intimate conversations. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Big problem Paul had a BIG problem, though; but not the problem you would think. These are not easy problems to tackle, let alone establish sustained impact. Despite these successes, ShowerUp’s BIG problem was organizing their 1,449 volunteers. In 2021, they had net assets of $770K. Absolutely worth it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The facilitators will lead participants through human design facilitation techniques to gain both individual and group understanding of this question: What are our current organizational practices? We know that leadership isn’t just about talking about the problems, it is also about discovering solutions.

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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. Image Credit: Getty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Techniques for calming yourself can also be valuable. Some of these techniques (particularly deep breathing) are also helpful when you cant completely disengage with the situation. A conversation with your supervisor can be helpful here, as well. If you do know the cause of the problem, they may also be able to clear it away.

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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. Ultimately, only the best algorithms that solve specific problems will survive. Automate Feature Engineering.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation. Just like data has been used to understand why online shoppers often abandon their shopping carts without completing their purchase, perhaps we could use the same techniques to understand why students abandon learning.

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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. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation. Another option is to embrace the Maker culture, connecting the South Bronx with entrepreneurs who are using local, micro-manufacturing techniques (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ieso’s “unfair advantage” is 10 years of real-life text-based conversations between patients and therapists, which Pitchford calls “transcripts of care.” This data set has been used to track how certain therapeutic conversations or techniques are linked (or not linked) to patient improvement.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The program generating these images is an algorithm called PULSE , which uses a technique known as upscaling to process visual data. This problem is extremely common in machine learning, and it’s one of the reasons facial recognition algorithms perform worse on non-white and female faces.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In an office setting, employees have ample opportunities to interact with colleagues, and these conversations organically create a sense of authenticity. In my experience, it also leads to faster problem resolutions. These are probably applicable to earlier-stage startups and less so for larger organizations. Pair programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

With all fundraising and activist campaigns, I think it is important to think of your conversation and messaging strategies in the context of the Ladder of Engagement - whether you are focusing on one campaign or your fundraising campaigns for the whole year. And, that is not a problem, it’s just the way it is.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. An ability to understand and interpret emotions can help employees have better conversations.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

We want to solve complex mathematical or scientific problems. Our ongoing work on LaMDA explores how these models can be used for safe, grounded, and high-quality dialog to enable contextual multi-turn conversations. Natural conversations are clearly an important and emergent way for people to interact with computers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Search engine optimization, PR, paid marketing, emails, social — marketing and communications is crowded with techniques, channels, solutions and acronyms. Leveraging this material with best practice techniques enables any startup, no matter how limited its budget, to run an effective marketing campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Last Friday, Media Impact Funders brought together technologists, journalists, philanthropists and innovators for a day-long conversation on the future of media and tech innovation. ” They will ask is it time to order the flowers? They will give the technique a formal burial and eulogy.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. Gets feedback and start conversations about their work. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient. Learns from experience and data.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

To solve the donor’s problems and achieve their goals, you use your knowledge of the donor’s emotional needs and their requirements, combined with the information you have about your nonprofit and the solutions available. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they Remember people do things for their own reasons.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Either they’re all in from the start—“What if AI solves all our problems?”—or We use it to assess whether predictions and AI may play a role in solving a particular problem. Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. That’s okay, too.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Plot/Desire: In any good story, there’s a problem that becomes part of the plot of the story. And the hero has a desire to overcome that problem. For nonprofit storytelling, conflict really refers to the challenges that need to be overcome or maybe the circumstances that perpetuate the problem. Your donation of $7.32

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Zero Foodprint takes the top slot, for funding regenerative farming through a model so simple, it becomes radical: Restaurants, grocers, and food companies are asked to contribute 1% of consumer purchases to directly fund farm conversions. Seso argues that it solves both problems.

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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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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. It’s a big risk until you go do it.”.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 21, 2023

To help address this problem, we worked with more than 1,000 participants to collect over 1,000 hours of disordered speech samples and used the data to show that ASR personalization is a viable avenue for bridging the performance gap for users with disordered speech. In conversation, people speak faster and enunciate less.

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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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