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8 Artificial Intelligence Concepts & Terms for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Supervised Learning: ML technique where algorithms learn from labeled data to make predictions or decisions. Unsupervised Learning: ML technique where algorithms learn patterns and relationships from unlabeled data. Data Bias: Prejudice or skewed results in AI systems due to biased training data.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. She was brilliant!

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants. There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Here’s what I learned.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

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This in turn enables conversational AI and advanced chatbot applications that produce highly contextual and informed responses for users based on custom data models and sources. It’s important to be able to test various pre-trained models to determine which delivers the best results.