ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Teach Ratio Charity Student 90

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

MC: Can one teach leadership without having been a leader? Mark Zuckerberg is all over the map, and hes not going to fare well in this environment. Many of the management techniques we have talked about over the last 30 to 50 years are woefully outdated. Theres no such thing as a 10-year strategic plan anymore. A good example is Meta.

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Advice Leadership People Newsletter 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control.

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Mind Social Media Media Wikispaces 101

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Explore how the strategic integration of SWOT analysis, audience mapping, SMART communication targets, channel identification, content strategy, execution and evaluation, and high-level communications planning can shape a successful digital transformation.

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Digital Strategy Create Guide 312

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You may know Prezi as an innovative PowerPoint-esque software that lays information out as an animated map rather than sequential slides. But the company has expanded in the past year, with a new focus on incorporating both live and recorded video into presentations.

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Video Teach Virtual Classroom 93

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Brazil Map Local Impact 60

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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Change Nepal Lesson Children 180

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2020

Microsoft is adding Chromebook support to Minecraft: Education Edition , offering another way for schools to teach virtually this upcoming school year. The lessons have players exploring the game’s map, like one that has students going on a scavenger hunt to learn the elements of the periodic table , that help kids learn by playing the game.

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Education Virtual Classroom Classroom Student 122

The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 16, 2020

On August 26th I’m going to teach a free class to show you how to do this for your organization. The post Your Non-Profit’s Road Map to Standing Out appeared first on The Storytelling Non-Profit. These are your organization's strengths, super powers and unfair advantages. This is how you implement authenticity as a strategy.

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Map Profit Classes Storytelling 55

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

DataRobot

JUNE 10, 2021

To understand how the images are being used, we can explore the explainability features for images of embeddings and activation maps. A second insight DataRobot offers is activation maps, which indicate what part of an image the model is using. The post Teaching AI to Smell by Using DataRobot appeared first on DataRobot.

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Teach Metrics Technique Open Source 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “ Infoattention ” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses. I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.” Even if it is just to get up and walk around my desk.

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Algorithms then map out when words appear next to one another and use this information to generate new sentences — and, apparently, new words. So fire up the webpage, and teach yourself to speak like a machine. In this case, the data consisted of 8 million webpages, scraped from the most upvoted links on Reddit.

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San Francisco Help Language Reddit 129

NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

We may also need to educate users about fundraising tools like Blackbuads Friends Asking Friends – Teaching them things like how to customize their personal fundraising page, how to import contacts for emailing, and how to enter offline donations. 4) Activate.

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Relationship Fundraising Tips Raise 208

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? There are two different lens to think about network mapping. ” I don’t like the term, but it describes when you create a network map of your professional network.

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Professional Network Learning Map 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I’ve been teaching workshops, training other trainers, and developing curriculum on “networked nonprofits,” literally around the world, and one of the first topics we address is understanding your network. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap.

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Social Media Measure Social Media 107

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist?

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Proposal NTEN Louisiana Campaign 134

Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. The Reward Translator maps natural language instruction from users to reward functions represented as python code.

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Language Skills Instructional Instruction 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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India Education Software Learning 105

Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images. —it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications.

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Classroom Tech Student Lecture 100

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

" » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. Submissions close January 22, 2010." " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!

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Web Bookmarking Haiti Lesson 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. What's interesting to me is looking at my map and identifying sub-communities or spokes and hubs. to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search.

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Twitter Network Tools Help 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I

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Data Nonprofit Literacy Boston 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Organization.

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Learning Work Knowledge Professional 99

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Iyer, a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits, spent the majority of last year honing in on his interest in web3 as a visiting partner at Pear VC and an instructor teaching a DeFi masterclass to over 2,000 students. The firm expects to make 40 to 50 investments in its first fund, writing checks between $250,000 to $500,000, it says.

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Fund Tools Develop Headline 126

The Next Web

JANUARY 12, 2013

What if you could invest in any startup on the map right now? They make it easy for everyone to teach what they are good at and also learn something new. It’s an irresistible “what if,” isn’t it? – Sunil Rajaraman , Scripted.com. I would invest my money in Udemy. Codename One.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space. The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems.

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Learning Remix Teach Social Media 112

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? In other words, they can see the entire court.

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Teach Philanthropy Volunteer RSS 81

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. After mapping the community and identifying shared goals you can focus on, you can start identifying the online tools and technologies that the community (especially when you break it down into segments) already uses, for what, why, and how.

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Library Community Model Collaboration 241

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Maven , a startup that helps professionals teach cohort-based classes, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Mapping out one edtech company’s $200M bet on lifelong learning. The investment comes seven months after Maven, then nameless, left stealth alongside a $4.3

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Course Platform Classes Teach 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Next, each person got to introduce themselves and their challenge, while the instructor, Pete Maher, expertly facilitated a network map on the wall. Being able to do concept mapping on the wall with sticky notes is a core technique in a number of the methods that we practiced throughout the two days.

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Facilitation Method Nonprofit Technique 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. " Looking for an alternative gift to help a child?

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Teach Causes Philanthropy Giving 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Strategy Design Digital Technique 130

Tableau

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Nor that it displays myriad approaches to what a map can be. It also has a lot to teach old hands like me, too. This is a sumptuous book to browse or, as I did, devour cover-to-cover. It's not just that its topics are diverse and important. Or even the fascinating essays that introduce each section.

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Data Chart Statistics Picture 111

Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about some of the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Brazil Map Local Impact 36

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But we have always been a grassroots organization with a following based on my teaching in animal communication. I have been the primary fundraiser for our organization for the last 30 years. I have no training in marketing or fundraising. I am a social worker by education.

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Donation Newsletter Donor Fundraising 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room. This exercise is very useful because after participants create their maps, they’re taped on the wall, and participants give feedback using sticky notes. Make It Fun, Celebrate.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113