Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

” This is a common theme for those interested in incorporating visualization techniques. But I followed the advice of colleague Rachel Smith, who teaches visual thinking and facilitation : “Send your inner critic who says you can’t draw on a vacation to Hawaii.” It has stopped me in the past.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

With that in mind, use storytelling techniques to draw them in, show them how they can be part of the solution, and ask them to donate. . The post What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising appeared first on Bloomerang. Use prospect research to identify potential major donors. . Woah, check out the cross trainers!”

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their multiplication tables or medical students delving into the maze of human anatomy. .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

FundamentalVR is using the technology to help train surgeons on new procedures and medical equipment, letting users practice techniques before they need to use them on human patients. FundamentalVR For using virtual reality to train the next generation of surgeons FundamentalVR uses VR to train surgeons on new techniques and equipment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

So, that is why Mackenzie wrote her book to teach you how to take actions that ultimately will improve your impact on the job and increase your happiness and fulfillment in your career. Part 2: Lead Your Boss describes proven techniques to transform your relationship with your boss.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Over a 13-week course called Logic School (delivered free, with support from the Omidyar Network), the school aims to teach tech workers to organize to help identify and rectify structural inequities. The Logic School wants to teach tech workers activism by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sometimes, it wasn’t apparent that some of them had even held a hammer before, says associate professor Deb Naybor, who teaches the class. So we started a very basic support safety training, just showing them techniques. “It’s a life skill,” says Derek Grant, a senior majoring in natural resources management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

In “ Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-Context Learning ”, we describe an approach that leverages in-context learning to enable algorithmic reasoning capabilities in LLMs. By providing algorithmic prompts, we can teach a model the rules of arithmetic via in-context learning. scratchpad and chain-of-thought ).

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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. Visualization Techniques. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Transfer learning on heterogeneous graphs Zero-shot transfer learning is a technique used to improve the performance of a model on a target domain with no labels by using the knowledge learned by the model from another related source domain with adequately labeled data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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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. Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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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. Well, most of the time the techniques and methods that organizations use for the training of employees are either traditional or inadequate. 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. Well, most of the time the techniques and methods that organizations use for the training of employees are either traditional or inadequate. You wonder why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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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. Mentoring Mentoring as a training technique for employees has its benefits. You wonder why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Abramson and the team of graduate students and faculty he led were responsible for creating ALOHAnet, an early wireless network whose innovative techniques are still being used today in modern satellite, phone, and computer networks. Norman Abramson, one of the pioneers behind wireless networks, has died at 88, The New York Times reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The first series of eight episodes launches January 1st and will teach the benefits of the practice and provide guided meditations. The Headspace show will feature 20-minute sessions, with Puddicombe’s voice guiding listeners through different mindfulness techniques to focus on things like sleep and stress with animations and music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. These techniques will save blood, sweat, and tears down the road.

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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:

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DataRobot

JUNE 10, 2021

To make the SMILE information useful for machine learning, we started by using the Morgan fingerprint technique. You can now analyze the new verbose extracted features using text-mining techniques such as bag-of-words. The post Teaching AI to Smell by Using DataRobot appeared first on DataRobot. See DataRobot in Action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 million copies around the world.

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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. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

Like Geoff,s I often get tired of reading the same people and ideas over and over again – and like to discover new topics and thinking. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. Not only does this give learners a chance to think about questions they have, but also helps me figure out how how well agenda matches expectations and manage them throughout the day. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. Connecting Up Master Class.

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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. One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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