Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2003

I'm working on a workshop on structured creative problem-solving techniques. I found this great resource from Directed Creativity, a meta analysis of over 250 creative problem solving techniques. To read more: Three Principles Behind All Tools

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

To excavate it, we developed a story framework structured around a hook, the conflict, and its resolution. Remember, different types of data require different visualization techniques bar charts for comparisons or line charts for trends. Not sure what data visualization technique to use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. Better workplace results and structured behavioral changes can only be achieved if the employees have an enhanced thought process. You wonder why?

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. Better workplace results and structured behavioral changes can only be achieved if the employees have an enhanced thought process. You wonder why?

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. One of the reasons for this method being underrated is that it’s quite difficult to structure and control.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. We know that leadership isn’t just about talking about the problems, it is also about discovering solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are lots of companies tackling the mammoth problem of drug discovery at the moment. But when it comes to the body’s building blocks, this is impossible without specific microscope techniques. For example, it’s possible to obtain images of structures as small as two ångströms across — that’s one-tenth of a nanometer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

After poring over its ownership structure, service offerings and its last two years of revenue, he asks and answers the question: “is the business itself any damn good?” Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). On Monday, Alex dove into the IPO filing for enterprise artificial intelligence company C3.ai.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Techniques for calming yourself can also be valuable. Some of these techniques (particularly deep breathing) are also helpful when you cant completely disengage with the situation. To what extent are there organizational structures that are getting in your way? Some physical activity can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Communications flows.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Combinatorial optimization : Popular optimization-based methods use a simple optimization technique that prunes weights in isolation, i.e., when deciding to prune a certain weight they don’t take into account whether other weights have been pruned. Let k be a user-specified parameter that denotes the number of weights to retain.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

This is our major structural advantage: we can feed the internet fresh cat photos. The problem, then, with This Cat Does Not Exist is that it allows the internet to make its own cat photos. Under this theory, Skynet has already happened, but Skynet is benign because one of the first things we taught it was that cats were cute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. Several decades ago software developers faced this same problem.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. They are good for handling straightforward and structured interactions and are easy to build and maintain, making them an appropriate choice for beginners or initiatives with well-defined processes. There are two types of chatbots.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

We want to solve complex mathematical or scientific problems. One of the broad key challenges in artificial intelligence is to build systems that can perform multi-step reasoning, learning to break down complex problems into smaller tasks and combining solutions to those to address the larger problem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Search engine optimization, PR, paid marketing, emails, social — marketing and communications is crowded with techniques, channels, solutions and acronyms. Leveraging this material with best practice techniques enables any startup, no matter how limited its budget, to run an effective marketing campaign. So, how do you get started?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Coral Vita aims to modernize both coral restoration techniques and the economy surrounding them, and has raised a $2 million seed round to kick things off in earnest. I wrote about Coral Vita late in 2019 when I encountered co-founder Gator Halpern on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance’s Accelerator at Sea. Image Credits: Coral Vita.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2022, we focused on new techniques for infusing external knowledge by augmenting models via retrieved context; mixture of experts; and making transformers (which lie at the heart of most large ML models) more efficient. This technique has strong provable guarantees for linear models and scales seamlessly to large embedding models.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? Organizational Structure.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The ability to measure asthma problems is in the product road-map. She says the problem is that people don’t know when they’re symptomatic: “They don’t know when they’re getting sicker. We’re getting really really high accuracies on diagnosing COPD because fundamentally, in COPD, your lung structure changes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Every change, every burst of creativity, begins with the identification of a problem or opportunity that somebody finds meaningful. Even if your team has experience with brainstorming, make sure everyone understands the ground rules for this current session : Brainstorming is about generating ideas, not solving problems or making decisions.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)? What is the problem?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

However, one of the major problems for many “network effect” driven businesses is the “empty chat room” conundrum. In markets where demand outstrips supply – collectibles, antiques, vintage luxury products – the two-sided marketplace problem can usually be solved by focusing on the business’ supply side part first.

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2022

This ability removes the structural barriers between IT-managed data environments and true, businesswide data-driven decision making. . The problem data fabrics are designed to solve. This is the problem that data fabrics are designed to solve. Data processing at the speed of business.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Forum One Tech team helps mission-driven organizations plan ahead to solve technical challenges before they become major digital infrastructure problems. The tech team has several divisions that, working together, contribute the diversity of skills and techniques our clients need. Meet the team. Figure out how you like to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. What are the most important stages of the network catalyzing and building process? How do these networks evolve over time?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. Bookshare managers.

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2022

This ability removes the structural barriers between IT-managed data environments and true, businesswide data-driven decision making. . The problem data fabrics are designed to solve. This is the problem that data fabrics are designed to solve. Data processing at the speed of business.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Detailed below are some techniques and tools that, once armed with, will enable you to thrive in the space in between. Paint them a picture of what you want – the user experience, how the interface should feel, what problem the backend needs to solve, what intuitive behaviors the product should engender. Tell the story, not the task.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Full-stack developers are jacks of all trades as they work with the design aspect of software the client interacts with as well as the coding and structuring of the server end. However, it will be presumed that you know enough to understand and can solve problems on both ends of software development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I also understand Entrepreneur First is a backer and has assigned EF venture partner Benedict Evans to work on the problem. ” In addition, Acapela will utilise what Grenke says is the latest machine learning techniques to help automate repetitive meeting tasks as well as to summarise the contents of a meeting and any decisions taken.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This blog post will guide you through a structured 60-day plan to successfully launch your fund accounting extensibility project, enabling you to optimize your operations and make more data-driven decisions. Their feedback can highlight potential problems and offer innovative solutions that you may not have considered.

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