TechSpot

MARCH 10, 2021

William Rogers has reportedly been teaching people to ice skate all his life, but while skating on Salmon Falls River in Somersworth, New Hampshire, the ice broke, plunging him into the freezing waters below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. Frank’s story exemplifies the life-changing power of access to information and reading. And the best part? I could request books not already in the collection, and sometimes my wish would be granted.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

It will never replace our capacity for thinking, and can, in fact, reinforce bias because it is learning what we teach it. Burnout has been identified as one of the leading causes driving people to leave their jobs. However, AI is only ever as good as the questions we ask it. Increased rates of burnout add up to bad news for business.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

In your Stanford commencement speech , you said: Resist the idea that anything youve done here has already locked you into any one pathor any one kind of life or career. What do they have to teach you? I’ve seen so many people make that mistake when they’re leaving a career to start something new. But, Im human.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Yes, AI can teach you to play piano Have you seen how much piano lessons with a human teacher cost today? For less than the cost of a few hours of private instruction, Skoove provides virtual piano lessons for life. You don't need to know how to play to get started. All you need is a piano and a little time.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

A call from someone pretending to be an IRS agent is, for most of us, just part of the furniture of modern digital life. Long story short, it went viral" when the scammer ended up blocking Bingham's number — and changed his life. With online scams growing fast — the FTC says reported scams cost people in the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Each year at this time, I reflect on the valuable lessons my father taught me that have served me well in business and in life - including lessons I learned when I didn't at the time necessarily realize I was learning from him. He loved even more to teach. He lived to help other people learn. He loved to learn. I miss you.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

I reflected on the people that I planned to see that day and chose one thing that Id like to thank them for. Most people would consider their mind more important than their teeth. There are some people who think: I’m going to meditate and get relaxed. I was inspired to try this practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

In his timely, must-read book, Wetzler shows you a powerful method called The Ask Approach™ , based on a simple premise: that tapping into what other people truly think, know, and feel is a game-changing superpower for leaders. Make it Safe : How you make it easier for people to tell you hard things. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sometimes, it wasn’t apparent that some of them had even held a hammer before, says associate professor Deb Naybor, who teaches the class. “It’s a life skill,” says Derek Grant, a senior majoring in natural resources management. So we started a very basic support safety training, just showing them techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Both of these organizations have both been able to figure out how to bring people together across ages, cultures, etc. I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. Many people love to eat, but many of us aren’t as close to being culinary experts as we would like to be. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. 3) Cooking classes. 5) Online classes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

However, as people have been staying home and social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, other generations have begun using the platform as well. The Caenhill Countryside Centre, a UK charity that teaches young children about farming and caring for animals, took this approach to share videos of the pets in their rescue program.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

As of now, this technology has already shown some degree of promise for all of the following very human psychological skills: diagnosing diseases, writing code, summarizing and teaching information, predicting markets, brainstorming, product design, project management, coaching, and much more.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

An adaptable mindset helps you expand your horizon, teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives, and can even show you a bit of the future. Creating such a mindset for yourself can make it much easier to embrace disruption and adapt to it, both in your personal and professional life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The Pew Research Center has released a research report called “ The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being.” The report, The Future of Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World , was designed to answer the question: Over the next decade, how will changes in digital life impact people’s overall well-being physically and mentally?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 31, 2022

Yet, in this context we are holding space for people to share some truly special or important moments in their lives. Why Supporting People Sharing Individual Stories is Necessary Do we always have the best perspective to support people through their storytelling process? I tell other people’s stories for a living.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. Go to “People” and search individually by name, or import your contacts from your e-mail address books. Make Connections.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You have to get comfortable asking people for money – even if you think asking for money is the last thing you would ever feel comfortable doing. Plus, I had a burning passion to help people. I knew that if I didnt learn how to ask people for money, my efforts to help people would be limited by my fear of fundraising.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Then there's the desire of Meta's Mark Zuckerberg for more "masculine energy" in corporate America, which only added to the feeling that Silicon Valley was growing ever more hostile to women and People of Color. One thing we are really focused on this year is expanding our impact to reach more people and continuing to enhance our curriculum.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As the technology becomes more embedded in daily life, researchers and educators face two distinct hurdles: teaching people to use these tools responsibly rather than over-relying on them while also convincing AI skeptics to learn enough about the technology to be informed citizens, even if they choose not to use it. .

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And I’ve noticed that I have let it carry into my startup life as well. I’ve noticed that most people have difficulty seeking constructive feedback. Most people I find still want to wait until they’re ninety percent done. You have to explicitly ask people to be on board with this concept. It’s not easy though.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On top of all the other things out there that people want in their life, and all the other sources of information and learning and networking – engagement, quite literally – that are increasingly available, associations need to be smarter about what they do, and how they reach out.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a company with many individuals personally invested in nonprofit work, we had tons of people who were excited to act as team captains as well as a community of people who would motivate one another as they competed to help their team raise as much money as possible. People need that reminder and extra nudge to take action!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

SG: Graduate education was transformative in my life, and I enjoy teaching, and we thought there was an opportunity — because of the pandemic and changing behaviors — to start an online ed concept that tried to deliver 50% to 70% of the value of an elite MBA elective at 10% of the cost and 1% of the friction.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Your actual product is videos you’ve already made that people are buying subscriptions to. People buy lifetime access to my courses. The company totally backed me and had me flying around the US hosting these Excel training sessions because I just genuinely loved to teach Excel. That’s amazing. How does that work? million views.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Lim ’s mission is to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organizations, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves. Spread happiness to the people on your team and then to your communities. ·

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Lim ’s mission is to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organizations, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves. Spread happiness to the people on your team and then to your communities. ·

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The inability to pay for essential medical care is not just a significant problem for the uninsured, but also for people who have health insurance. Rising premiums, deductibles, copays, and coinsurance prevent many people from being able to afford the critical treatment they need. They thought he had passed a kidney stone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

If you are a trainer and looking for interactive ways to teach about using data for improvement, be sure to download their free guide “ Dabbling in Data.”). For nearly 20 years, she has studied the psychological experiences and the performance of people doing complex work inside organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Lim ’s mission is to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organizations, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves. Spread happiness to the people on your team and then to your communities. ·

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2024

In his new book , Crossing the Desert: The Power Of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys , Zamani tells his harrowing journey and gives readers an intimate look at how the paths we choose, the values we embrace, and the systems we decide to participate in (or not) can make or break us, not only financially, but spiritually.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Khan Academy cites a real-life example of a teacher with 100 students who typically needed 17 hours to review the first drafts of a two-page essay assignment, assuming the teacher spent 10 minutes on each paper. The app already offered an English tutor that could teach and converse, but the conversations felt slow and unnatural.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

He is also teaches at the Stanford d.school. . The mission is what intrinsically motivates and sustains you through all the ups and downs of startup life. In the case of Airbnb, its mission is to “make people feel at home, anywhere in the world.” New Dropbox Designers (Photo by Tim Van Damme).

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