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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). On our “ samples from the field ” section of our website, we have opted for a low-tech solution to shield against viruses and inappropriate content. What roles are needed? What are some possible tools?

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. You can see screen shots of both of these in the slide show above. How do you create a tag? You can create a new tag every time you save something if you want to.

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On NetSquared, nonprofit tech folks are invited to blog about one question each month in the Net2 Think Tank , and Amy Sample Ward summarizes these at the end of the month. Laura Norvig manages the lending library, website taxonomy, and social media presence for the Resouce Center of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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Guide to Refining Prompts & AI Prompts Terms

Whole Whale

Few-shot learning : When an AI model is given very few real examples to adapt to a new task, often 5-10 samples, before inferring patterns to apply more broadly. Prompt taxonomy : Classifying prompts into a hierarchical structure with categories and tags to capture relationships and usage patterns.

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