Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It is a skill that we can train. David Richardson [Photo: David Nevala] This interview has been edited for length and clarity. It turns out that the way that we see the world is no different than the way that the mind processes dreams; Neuroscience teaches us that. Now, pretty much everyone on the planet brushes their teeth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0: 3) Giving 2.0:

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So, I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. He loved even more to teach. Train and Prepare - All those years of hearing, "Have you done your homework?" Really, he was just a great listener. I believe that's what made him so wise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Mark : Yoga is the oldest warrior development program known to man. Any idea why?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Meanwhile, other education companies are using artificial intelligence to train both our youngest learners and working professionals who are looking to upskill and adapt to evolving technologies. In 2024, the company sourced and trained more than 20 immigrant workers for their first jobs.

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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. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. That’s the theory at least. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2014

In honor of Idealware's On Demand Tactical Technology Planning product coming to TechSoup, I interviewed Andrea Berry to learn more about her background, the importance of technology planning, and more. A Background in Technology Training. The Benefits of Online Training. Berry wasn't always a nonprofit tech expert.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. But how do you know if your training programs are effective? That’s where training metrics come in.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. But how do you know if your training programs are effective? That’s where training metrics come in.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. But how do you know if your training programs are effective?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

"These skills, which one sees in action around the country with certain key individuals who seem to be able to bridge gaps between organizations and issue areas, we can teach them. And I think teaching them is probably the most important thing we can do right now." You can read a transcript of the interview below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Yesterday, I was able to interview Greg to learn more about his massive social experiment called EssentialLive to get many people to try Essentialism for a year. The principles of Essentialism teaches us to know the difference and use our resources wisely. Video is here ). Greg describes it as “Living a happy life.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 25, 2012

In the book, Branham teaches readers how to : Avoid employee-job mismatches. Leverage exit and turnover data (often from exit interviews) to increase employee retention. For more on this, see my appendix in The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave on exit interviewing. Build an environment of mutual trust and confidence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

For instance, onboarding volunteers can be incredibly taxing, often involving paperwork, training, and background checks. Ensuring volunteers get the proper training is critical, especially if working with children. The software can also hold training programs and learning modules to get volunteers up to speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. One is a collection of selected articles, slide decks, and interviews with Robin Good. Benefits for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Once year-end fundraising passes and we’re in the new year, your nonprofit is in position to focus on development activities —including training your staff and volunteers to reach greater heights in 2022. . Improved staff and volunteer retention rates, fundraising and donor stewardship outcomes, and training engagement come to mind.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 Katya worked with the Pathstream career services team to refine her resume and LinkedIn profile and prepare for interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. The book is a quick and handy resource for any leader, manager or Human Resource professional.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

As a result of 100x larger training data sets and 100x higher compute power becoming available by reprogramming GPUs (graphics cards), a huge leap in predictive performance had been attained in image classification a year earlier. The last interview was a hackathon, where I met Raz. Having changed that, I applied again.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Learning After working as a communications consultant since May for Rockwood Leadership Institute , I finally had the opportunity to participate in their signature personal leadership development training, The Art of Leadership. As a Rockwood alum I recently interviewed put it, "It could be blueprint for something bigger."

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

I also teach students, residents and fellows and hold joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. I have a PhD in epidemiology and this training blended perfectly with the focus on metrics and research in the lean startup approach. Image credit: Jupiter Images / Thinkstock.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

” Anthropic describes the frontier model as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching,” making reference to an AI training technique it developed called “constitutional AI.” “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ".

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

One customer assumed that poor usage rates at a particular station was due to a lack of EVs in the area, Terry recalled in a recent interview. The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. That wasn’t the problem. Hiring approach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

He plans to use the grant to create a training program to teach homeless people to use social media tools to tell their own story. During SXSW, Mark was doing interviews in the Beacon Nonprofit Lounge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. Male students and those attending smaller colleges rate their institutions better at preparing students for virtual internships and job interviews—revealing gaps in support for students at larger institutions and female students. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011.

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