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Artificial Intelligence for Good: A Few Good Articles To Read #AI4Good

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But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” The article includes list of proposed best practices for use of AI in development and other social good fields.

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3 Major Higher Ed Takeaways from bbcon 2020 Virtual

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Blackbaud’s Steph McCluskey broke down all the hype around a lumni participation rates and encouraged us to shift our focus to maximizing our donors instead. This framework consists of 1) Focusing on the right people, 2) Visiting with the intent to fundraise, and 3) Using proposals to plan the work. .

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

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The emergence and application of tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging, social search, web based content and learning management systems, pod and vodcasting intersect with various forms of collaboration such as distributed communities of practice, networks, and online communities. They hype around "Web 2.0" Proposed deadlines.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

It’s got style, a strong brand, and growing content. One of the vendors made a proposal to us with the phrase: “It’s MySpace meets NASA." The content starts with the teen team. Have you gotten any negative feedback about it being too superficial or hyped for a research program? I don’t think it’s a lot of hype.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

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It was the surprise marriage proposal on the stage from Mashable's COO Adam Hirsch to Managing Editor Sharon Feder (she said yes)! (You can read more about that here ). Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. Was it all hype? .