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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags.

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Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story

The Verge

“The result is that AI-generated language will be homogenized, reflecting the practices of the richest countries and communities,” wrote MIT Technology Review. This research could have been problematic for Google, which created a large language model called BERT in 2018, which has changed how it queries search results.

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Google reportedly asked employees to ‘strike a positive tone’ in research paper

The Verge

Advances in technology and the growing complexity of our external environment are increasingly leading to situations where seemingly inoffensive projects raise ethical, reputational, regulatory or legal issues,” the policy read. A senior manager also instructed researchers to “strike a positive tone” in a paper this summer.

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Technology. Technology. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. re not searching alone. Social Change.

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I hope Gavin puts his witty comments on Social Search into a blog post at his digital dinner.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into practice?

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Try out new technologies on your own when you get a chance.