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5 Methods for Avoiding Procrastination for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” The method can be combined with these others and is very simple. What is your method?

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been using this method for almost ten years! Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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Foundation models for reasoning on charts

Google Research AI blog

The prevalence of these methods was because existing end-to-end computer vision models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers pre-trained on natural images could not be easily adapted to visual language. A chart created from a table in the Airbus A380 Wikipedia page using random plotting options.

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5 things nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia’s online fundraising campaign

Connection Cafe

Every year, Wikipedia runs a fundraising campaign to support its operations. The 2014 online giving campaign just wrapped up and there are plenty of lessons that other nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia. Here are five things Wikipedia does that are worth incorporating into your own online giving campaign: 1.

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FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Google Research AI blog

While our work is specific to regional varieties of two languages, we anticipate that methods that perform well will be readily applicable to other languages and regional varieties. In principle, those methods should also work for other language distinctions, such as formality and style. Values are between -1 and 1; higher is better.

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ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

Google Research AI blog

Previous methods prompt language models (LM) to either generate self-conditioned reasoning traces or task-specific actions. Wikipedia) to incorporate additional information into reasoning (act to reason). Best ReAct + CoT Method 35.1 We propose ReAct, a new paradigm that combines reasoning and acting advances in language models.