Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

We describe how we pre-train a HGNN model without the need for fine-tuning. To train a HGNN model and a classifier to predict labels for a specific node type, we require a good amount of labels for the type. Unfortunately, we cannot directly reuse the pre-trained HGNN and classifier on the target node type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The desire for additional skills training at an affordable rate and at a quick pace has inspired many borrowers to pursue one-year masters programs that begin during undergrad, often referred to as accelerated Masters or four-plus-one programs.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? A lot went away, and some opened up. Step 3: Make a training plan. Today is the day you’re going to shed the “vacation” mentality of training your nonprofit staff and volunteers. But are you ready?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

There are currently strong offerings in both closed and open source software, and with Tableau, you get the best of both options as developers. . Why does open source matter? . Open source software dominates the machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. Why does open source matter for Tableau?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. billion WhatsApp users exchanging more than 60 billion messages every day and that unlike other media, it has an astounding 99% open rate and 40%+ response rate.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

There are currently strong offerings in both closed and open source software, and with Tableau, you get the best of both options as developers. . Why does open source matter? . Open source software dominates the machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. Why does open source matter for Tableau?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. I used it for my master class at Connecting Up in Australia as I have used it for almost every training I’ve done over the past twenty years. Here’s how it works. Connecting Up Master Class.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Originally from Toulouse, France, Perret moved to New York 17 years ago and has been teaching French in the U.S. By watching a short film in French, even with English or French subtitles, you can slowly soak up the language, notice how words are spelled, and train your ear before ever uttering a single word. since then.

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Tableau

JUNE 15, 2021

Drumroll, please: Nominations and applications for the 2021 Tableau Ambassador Program are now open! The group supported a virtual Tableau Conference that shined with character, scrambled to help virtual user groups with training and content, and embraced projects illuminating society’s greatest challenges. Ateken Abla. June 30, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

This is part two of the highly successful event from April where top experts train and teach founders how to build, launch and scale their companies. The Training. Early-stage startups — now is your time to shine at the TechCrunch Early Stage event on July 8 and 9. Nervous to pitch onstage in front of thousands?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. Reflective Practice. Strategic Dialogue.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. So, no more “sink or swim” approach to your volunteer engagement. They’re just too valuable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. We agreed that the only viable solution was to have internal teams with domain expertise be responsible for annotating and curating training data.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Zen Master nomination period begins now, and will be open from Tuesday, December 8, 2020, through Friday, January 8, 2021. Have they worked with other community members to build thought leadership or training resources? What makes someone a Tableau Zen Master? Do they contribute useful, popular ideas on our Ideas Forum ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Davidson meditates, he opens his calendar and sets an intention for each meeting. It is a skill that we can train. 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. Every morning, after Richard J. I was inspired to try this practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. 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. That’s the theory at least. Begin Connections.

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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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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

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. It was eye-opening to discover what you don’t notice when you are aware.

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Gyrus

MAY 17, 2016

The Difference Between Training and Development Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Introduction The words training and development are mostly used together in the corporate world and are seen as activities focused on improving the knowledge, performance and productivity of the employees.

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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. CrossFit, he has started and led six multimillion­ dollar business ventures. Any idea why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. Put e-learning on the agenda.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2025

Specifically, ask about the effectiveness of the instructions, training, and orientation materials. If volunteers indicate that training was insufficient, use open-ended questions to ask for specific examples or areas that could use some work. This open-ended question invites volunteers to give constructive feedback.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Such relationships help foster openness to learning and change. And, thank you to the book's three authors!

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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. The Bolt+ coding robot is more immersive and open-ended than its predecessor and has already elicited positive feedback from teachers.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It consists of two major components: an open dataset of egocentric video and a series of benchmarks that Facebook thinks AI systems should be able to tackle in the future. We’ve open up the eyes of these AI systems to more than just kitchens in the UK and Sicily, but [to footage from] Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Colombia.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

a system that trains LLMs and the RAG ystem together, resulting in Contextual Language Models that are tuned for specific purposes for which they outperform leading commercial and open source models. The app already offered an English tutor that could teach and converse, but the conversations felt slow and unnatural.

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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. LLMs cannot directly generate low-level robotic actions due to lack of data in pre-training dataset.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Get the training you need to ask the right questions, make better decisions, and grow your career. And yet, there’s a gap: Organizations aren’t offering data-training programs: Despite wanting data-savvy candidates, employers aren’t investing in data training and upskilling initiatives. August 4, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

Stephen is an expert in many training methods so this will be an excellent co-learning experience. This training will be the kick off for a peer learning group that Stephen will facilitate over the next few months. Training Design' May 13, 2013: Meeting with NZ Funders.

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Tableau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Britt Staniar Senior Community Program Manager, Recognition Programs Catherine Gosparini Senior Community Program Manager, Developer Program Sarah Molina January 18, 2023 - 8:24pm January 19, 2023 Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community. Registration is now open!

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