The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

inspired by this, i made a script that automatically quits @zoom_us when i sigh really loudly [link] pic.twitter.com/jzsh5BCi8p — David Zhou (@dz) December 17, 2020. The possibilities seem endless here, and I hope more people create fun ways to quickly get out of their Zoom calls.

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The Next Web

MARCH 20, 2013

There’s more… The second thing I would love to see is an automated script to keep spammers busy. How much fun would it be? I can see a dashboard there with how many people are going through the scripted responses and who got the farthest. It would be hilarious, and effective.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That comment isn’t meant to cast shade; just to point out that although the bots are fun, there are still some hurdles involved in really putting them to work. Fun fact–the first Chatbot, Eliza, was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor, Joseph Weizenbaum. But, Don Draper and the team at Mad Men probably would not approve.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

As Google+ further influences search results (recent research shows it has the highest correlation with search rankings out of any technique) and as people begin adopting it professionally, knowing how to spark Google+ engagement will be an exciting opportunity for social media gurus, ninjas or whatever fun term they are using these days.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Everything had to be worked out in advance and scripted precisely,” explains Eric Whitman, a Boston Dynamics roboticist. The company also worked again with Monica Thomas, the professional choreographer who the company worked with on its previous dancing robot videos, to plan out Spot’s dance moves.

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Tableau

APRIL 5, 2021

Writing a demo script won’t hurt; ask the team for script feedback and do some slides, if you need visual support. Have fun! . Don’t forget to have fun and add your favorite hack song to our collaborative DataDev Hackathon Playlist. Once ready, submit your project, and include a demo recording with your submission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. 6) Provide a fun and supportive community. These are guides you’re providing – not mandates. 5) Provide the necessary tools.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The ad quicklywent viral for its dry humor and reverse psychology, which flipped the script on the often overproduced, and, frankly, corny approach thats typical for American tourism spots. The agency in 2024 continued to flip the script on how McDonalds shows up in culture by actually celebrating something that it didnt create.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

So I thought it might be fun if I documented a Flow I recently built. I’d love to see some conditional logic in a later version of Visual Workflow so I can script something like “If email address is entered, match that otherwise match first/last name.” Of course, I set them up on Salesforce.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They also offer a fun, relaxed, social setting for you (and your board) to get to know your donors free of intimidation and formalities. . What high value “VIP” volunteer opportunities can you create to allow donors to feel a part of your mission in a fun, engaging way? Why should you do a donor cultivation event?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

All of these fun Easter eggs really underlined a different Build conference this year. We had scripts and storyboards. It’s clear Microsoft and Hanselman had fun putting together Build this year under the difficult circumstances of this pandemic. It really brought Build back to its developer roots. “We

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Tableau

JANUARY 5, 2021

Last summer, we launched the DataDev mini challenges, which were three months of fun challenges for all. Let’s say you create a script to send emails to all users on the site, but you find that it is only sending to one user. You can spend time debugging the script instead of apologizing to all your Tableau users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart. You were born to do this!”

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Make it easy and fun for them, touch their hearts, and give them some love. Don’t feel overwhelmed. Remember that fundraising is not comfortable for most people, including your board members. Use this list to support them through the fundraising process. And don’t forget to shoot us an email and let us know how it’s going.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Carrying a soggy umbrella is no fun and it’s a human habit to leave an umbrella behind when you most need it. There are of course women-only events too, but to encourage a selection of women stepping up to pitch their ideas, it’s good to see a selection of events on offer.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

If anyone’s a bit “phone shy,” consider creating a simple script. Hold a “Who Looks Like Santa” contest, have supporters grow facial hair, challenge donors to run a 5k every weekend in December— it doesn’t matter what you choose, as long as it’s fun, funky, and different. Encourage your staff and volunteers to make the phone calls.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Adding a fun sticker or two is also a nice added touch. Create a short, powerful, well-written script that callers can use as a guide, but allow the callers freedom to go off script and just express their gratitude. Keep the call cordial, upbeat, and 15 seconds or less. Avoid “pitching” the ask.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

And so frustration ensued, all in the name of protecting your favorite blogs, shopping portals, subscription and contact forms and news sites from abusive scripts and dangerous malware. Too often the letters were so distorted, so fuzzy and so unreadable that it was impossible to enter them correctly on the first try.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Make the day fun. They make the day fun. The best facilitators make their retreats fun and lively, and are quick-witted and funny themselves. Look for a facilitator who is enthusiastic, high energy, motivational, a master storyteller, and uses retreat tactics to make the day fun, meaningful, and memorable. Credibility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Shoutout to our producer, Theresa Loconsolo, for putting together a script, and TC’s Andrew Mendez for this feedback: “Y’all slayyyed that recording and honestly can’t wait to you all up on social media when this episode drops.”

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Tableau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Use the space to bring teams together for fun viz challenges or contests. Great news for you: all of this can be scripted and deployed with ease, whether you're a Windows shop, a Mac shop, or anything in between. . . Perhaps you even dedicate a few spaces to showcase the first, second, and third-place winners!

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Tableau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Use the space to bring teams together for fun viz challenges or contests. Great news for you: all of this can be scripted and deployed with ease, whether you're a Windows shop, a Mac shop, or anything in between. Perhaps you even dedicate a few spaces to showcase the first, second, and third-place winners!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

One fun way to organize this in this transitional year (with not everyone ready to join others inside) is via a Zoom call with volunteers. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun. Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

For a longer video, consider writing a script. Scripting: Even if you don’t plan to read from a script, you still should write a script. If your audience skews young and your video has a fun vibe, TikTok could be worthwhile. Just speak directly into the camera and from your heart. Go where your audience is.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She asked staff to give 15 minutes of their time to handwrite a card and prepared them with ready-made assets, stationery, stamps, and sample scripts. She made it fun with decorations and a staff photo contest. To spend the day thanking instead of asking. Staff got into the spirit with personalized doodles and videos.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

link] Then we can access the collection in the Spark script, and load the embeddings into it from the final Dataframe. As prerequisites we need: An S3 bucket for job scripts, inputs and outputs, and other artifacts that the job needs An IAM role with Read, List, and Write permissions for S3, as well as Read and Write for Glue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What I liked about this activity is that it is fun, creative, and people aren’t sitting down, but walking around. And, I always bring a set of fun materials, but it is time consuming to put them away. Defining Roles. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The platform is home to all kinds of original content, from Rian Johnsons Poker Face to that surprisingly fun Twisted Metal adaptation. During its early years, Peacock invested heavily in scripted comedy and a lot of that stuff is still on the platform. This includes shows like Rutherford Falls , Bust Down and MacGruber.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Not only do our instructors use interactivity to keep you engaged, but they also throw in fun ways to learn the concepts. Our virtual training instructors don’t follow a script and answer any questions you might have throughout the course. Guess what?! You can ask questions about the content the instructor is demonstrating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.” The Whisky Bot , while not a nonprofit focus, it is a good example of a more elaborate bot.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That means that along with full keyboards in both Tengwar (the Elvish script) and Dwarven runes, there’s also a plethora of novelty keys featuring key iconography from Middle-earth, including Eye of Sauron escape keys, One Ring-branded command keys, and more. One keyboard to rule them all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. I’m trying out some new themes soon. {

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

For fun, have them also prepare a 30 minute presentation for the organization. The way that Vote Forward manages volunteers is by letting people “adopt” a mailing list of potential voters and then gives instructions for them to send letters from a printed script that can be customized. Data hygiene projects.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

And let’s face it, “data” lives on a fundraising fun-to-do spectrum somewhere between boring, scary and “I didn’t take statistics in college for a reason!” And it requires the development of a central database, as well as multiple data exchange scripts to move data between the CDR and your other systems.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

eCards are electronic greeting cards that include fun, attention-grabbing visuals and a personalized message. This is a fun spin on the classic donor thank-you email that will help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd. Thank-you emails are a staple of most nonprofits’ appreciation strategies, and you can elevate yours with eCards.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

We'll discuss the question, and we'll have a little fun, but we'll also give practical answers and advice. He did this by: Scripting a short introduction that kicks off each episode. Urging the guest experts and me, as we recorded each episode, to have fun and to be conversational. Are you interested?”.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 23, 2014

You don’t have to create an overly-produced, polished and rehearsed video with meticulously scripted talking points. You can simply capture something fun happening in your office or out in the field in which you serve. Moments like these happen all the time in and around your organization. Here are some instructions.

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