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Heat and Eat: Why Zapping Your Content with AI Is No Recipe for Success

Whole Whale

This slice of wisdom from the kitchen is a perfect metaphor for the current wave of generative AI in content creation. Off-the-shelf AI tools are being touted as the solution to all our content woes, promising to churn out blog posts, social media updates, and newsletters at lightning speed.

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Instead, content curation helps us keep focused.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? I know for myself that I don’t learn, retain, or apply when content is endlessly shared – even from expert – without a break.

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How To Fix The 12 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Presentation Ready is divided into three sections: Building your case – the foundation of your persuasive arguments and content. One of my favorite parts of the book is where Sjodin teaches how best to use visual aids in your presentations. They are not designed to be a crutch to help get a person through their content.

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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Content Creation. Ask folks to think about the people in the group and what content would appeal to them.

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7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. Then there’s the whole other world of organizational content that you need to consume or create to get stuff done!

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Paul Smith Teaches You How To Sell With A Story

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). That wasn’t fair.

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