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FEBRUARY 6, 2004

Standford scholar Robert Horn who wrote "Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century," offers some great insights to anyone who needs to communicate with words and images in this Q&A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Making accommodations comes down to respectful language and accommodations that require observing and checking in with participants. Respectful language is important. I also had to take a little bit more care in delivering parts of my presentation that relied on being able to see the visual images in the powerpoint by describing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. It cross-references words with its database of more than one million tagged and scored words, phrases, and images in 25 languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? You would never presume that every person who speaks English is going to respond to a brand in exactly the same way. Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2018

Today, the average chatbot’s language skills have advanced enough that they can do all kinds of things beyond answers to basic questions. I played with the app and at first found it entertaining, but it quickly moved into creepiness, especially when it said that humans were merely computers encased in sacks of flesh.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Observe and Understand Body Language. According to research, 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language. Here’s a terrific cheat sheet for common body language signals and what they mean. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

She created templates that the trainers could used to create cards in Arabic language. Both language and what you’re teaching. Have participants summarize what they heard in their native language. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT. 1.) Simplify, simplify, simplify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In the future, the bot will be able to sift through slack channels and identify in appropriate language. . Companies add the Valued chatbot to their Slack chatrooms, and employees and management can ping the bot with commands to solicit — and provide — feedback. Share your story in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. When on site, make sure you introduce yourself and ask for any clarifications of language or ideas. The thumbs up means the pace and language is good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the future, the bot will be able to sift through slack channels and identify in appropriate language. Companies add the Valued chatbot to their Slack chatrooms, and employees and management can ping the bot with commands to solicit — and provide — feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Twitter said it made the change because some languages require more characters, but the move is more likely growing the user base by making the service easier for newcomers. Caitlin Kelly posted an image of editing down Twitter’s announcement Tweet from 280 characters to 140, arguing that brevity was better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

There were many products demos and discussed, but I really liked the demo of cool things you could do with your smartphone. As I work more and more internationally, translation from different languages has become critical. The demo showed how to turn your smart phone into an interpreter with experimental software that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I delivered one of the keynotes and as you can see from this slide, we had two screens presenting materials in both languages. In addition, there was live translation in both languages. We were assigned specific seats at the VIP table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Once you have it committed to memory, practice being aware of your speed, tone, and body language. I found that long walks away from the computer helped me get out of my head and think more creatively. Memorize the sequence and transitions and practice out loud. Be aware of your facial expressions.

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MARCH 23, 2012

This is twice the rate of Caucasians and even within the tweeting Latino community there is a breadth of diversity in terms of race, socioeconomic background, immigration status and English-language capabilities. Our ACA story headlined Las Blogueras (hashtag #lasblogueras), a largely Spanish-language Twitter newsletter with 15,000 readers.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @ roomtoread , and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read. Good wine has never been better! And, with a donation - you get a bottle of wine too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Before we took a deep dive with Janet on social awareness skills, we had a short session on understanding non-verbal communication such as body language. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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JANUARY 19, 2011

One thing I discovered was Meedan’s “ Transbrowser &# that allows you to plug in a URL in one language and translate it to another. Meedan , an implementation partner, is responsible for designing and implementing the online learning community. I immediately starting playing around with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Evaluation has its own special language and terms and with a cross-disciplinary group, it is important to know each other’s jargon. There’s an APP for that! You can download an “ Evaluation Glossary ” that explains key terms in the evaluation field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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JANUARY 20, 2011

To augment efforts to increase the amount of Arabic-language content online by making it easier to use and read Arabic online. She noted that the sector was not as developed due to lack of training, language, and resources. There is a huge language barrier because a lot of training materials are in English.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

The reach of this is impressive—spanning 200 countries and 20 languages. It’s membership marketing on a whole new level, meeting company needs in a way that is entirely user-friendly for the LinkedIn member. Page Analytics : With this feature, organizations can be more informed than ever about their network following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

Find your tribe, learn the language and have some fun. “- Robin Stephenson. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie. I also posted off hours. They were clever, funny, and great social media advice! Here’s a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As a digital immigrant, my goal for this conference is to practice learning the language of my new country at the GEO Networks conference over the next two days. “Social networks are not about technology, they are enabled by technology”. I’m sitting with this thought as I write and publish my first ever blog.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Words : Language is tricky. Bob Filbin from DoSomething says they test language all the time, especially for the call to action – learn more versus sign up. It isn’t a matter of that “photos do well on Facebook, it is which photo.” ” More about testing images on Facebook, see this useful article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

Lack of shared definitions and shared language. Funder misalignment on movement needs. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing. Need safe and supported spaces for difficult movement conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In NYC, in the back of the auditorium, there was a multi-language rumble going on as translators were translating speaker’s remarks into 7 languages. There were meetups having on the ground throughout the world where people were watching the live stream and participating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In this entertaining video of the keynote, they explained these complicated technologies in simple, easy to understand language. Richard Socher and his team of researchers introduced new AI functionality features (called Einstein ) integrated with the Salesforce platform). You can watch the keynote on YouTube. Hat Tip to Tal Frankfurt). ?.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Participants had digital copies of the powerpoints translated into french and used their laptops to follow along. We used real-time translators and participants used headsets to tune into the language channel of their choice to understand what was being said. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. Fatigue sets in when we are sitting and listening, not interacting or moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

She pointed an example of using natural language processing algorithms to analyze research papers over the past ten years in a particular scientific field to determine what connections might have been missed. The algorithms also use predictive analysis to make recommendations on future investment in research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

A Danish friend sees this and translates the image into three languages (she’s a“Charlie”). She shares it with her friends to show she’s hip, cool, and with her niece. Friends “like” it. A cancer-surviving grandma in Denmark re-posts and says “den bedste!”. So the cycle continues. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2014

Recently, I listened to a Radio Lab episode where they were discussing an experiment where they found a way to take away a human’s understanding of language and making connections by having them shadow or repeat another person’s speech. The experiment subjects could not make good choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

We also had an added challenge of having a group of participants where some spoke fluent Spanish/English, only English, only Spanish, or fluent in one language and only a few words in the other. While we did have simultaneous interpretation, it would not be useful for rapid share pair discussions that this opener requires.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I was lucky enough to be working with the digital strategy coordinator, Maria Rubi , from the Mexico office. She is not only fluent in English (and four other languages in addition to her native Spanish), she is also an excellent trainer and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

When you’re live and in the room, you can observe body language and adjust accordingly. The body language code was as follows: ! I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication.

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