Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

Web 105

Web Lebanon New York City Benchmark 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes. Respond here.

Social Media 94

Social Media Summary Measure Media 94

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

One benefit of focus groups is the ability for participants to feed off each other’s energy and bounce ideas off one another. Internally they can assist in managing performance at the departmental or affiliate-level using dashboards and benchmark progress over time. concerns, suggestions, strengths, etc.).

Measure 143

Measure Impact Issue Survey 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are.

Social Media 102

Social Media Measure Media Social 102

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . How many people are you planning to feed? .

Analytics 126

Analytics Strategy Fundraising Social Media 126

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K.,

Web 114

Web Analytics Bookmarking Norway 114

sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. All Rights Reserved

Online 111

Online Fundraising Nonprofit Blackbaud 111

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?"

Web 117

Web Indiana NTEN Case Study 117

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The o1 model rose quickly to the top of the rankings in common benchmark tests, and soon Google DeepMind , Anthropic , DeepSeek and others were training their models for real-time reasoning. The model generates PhD-level answers to complex questions, landing it on top of performance benchmark rankings.

Companies 110

Companies Model Train Training 110

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What does social media success look like, anyway?"

Web 117

Web Social Media San Francisco Search 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Don’t Use News Feeds. You can add your nonprofit’s news or blog feed to your group, but it’s best to resist the temptation. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

Linkedin 196

Linkedin Group Practice Management 196

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

Web 108

Web Case Study Iraq Bookmarking 108

Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

The consequence of this is not that Americans starve, but that a vastly more productive, heavily automated farming sector feeds us and lets the other 98.6 That meant that Britain could pour more and more resources into that sector of its economy without having returns diminish too much. By 1900, a third did. Last year, only 1.4

Laptop 96

Laptop Classes Job Model 96

sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This data comes from the our donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking group and looks across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. That’s the power and importance of benchmarking. This group is comprised of 14 very large nonprofit organizations with data from 2009. All Rights Reserved

District of Columbia 74

District of Columbia Trend Donor Blackbaud 74

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This data comes from the our donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking group and looks across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. That’s the power and importance of benchmarking. What you do with the information makes all the difference. It makes for good headlines but doesn’t really help nonprofits very much.

Donor 73

Donor District of Columbia Trend Online 73

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

With some basic information an organization can start benchmarking their own performance against their peers in the analysis. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. All Rights Reserved

Trend 100

Trend Online Giving Blackbaud 100

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

80% of participants used in-person asks and 73% used email to raise funds The second study is “Understanding the Value of Team Captains&# based on research from the donorCentrics Events Benchmarking Group by Target Analytics , a Blackbaud company. All Rights Reserved

Trend 77

Trend Fundraising Blackbaud Nonprofit 77

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 6, 2023

for closed captions), can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) not only on widely-spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also on under-resourced languages like Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, and Azerbaijani to name a few. Comparison of USM (with or without in-domain data) and Whisper results on ASR benchmarks.

Language 140

Language Arts Model University 140

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

5 Biggest Trends in Online Fundraising View more presentations from Steve MacLaughlin A Sneak Peek at the Third Annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Survey Friday, March 18, 2011, 3:30 to 5:00 pm Attendees will be the first to hear the results of the latest Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report. All Rights Reserved

NTEN 75

NTEN Conference Technology Nonprofit 75

Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

Continuation grants Continuation grants are a type of grant renewal for your nonprofit that enables you to continue receiving funds if you achieved the required benchmarks using the original grant’s funding. Look for grants using state-centric resources because many are based on location and handed out by state and local governments.

Grant 52

Grant Resource Guide Tips 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The feed is being fed like a holiday goose. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Facebook’s value is mostly derived from what it knows about its users. All Rights Reserved

Facebook 79

Facebook Trend Blackbaud Nonprofit 79

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Resources to Jump-Start Your Thinking. As important as these efforts are, the array of resources and the complexity of the topics can be challenging, whether you’re just getting started or are deep into your ESG efforts. Our diversity and inclusion efforts also feed our mission toward advancing social good.

Social 98

Social Government Blackbaud Global 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I can’t emphasize the importance of doing a content audit which requires looking at your Facebook insights and getting a good understanding of what content performs well or not on Facebook before you begin experimenting with promoted posts. While you do this, it might also be useful to do a little benchmarking. How To Resources.

Measure 105

Measure Facebook Help Spam 105

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This approach provides more useful benchmarking information than repeated cross?sectional Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. and the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics.

Collaboration 76

Collaboration Research Report Nonprofit 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve? Use tools like PostRank to filter your feeds so you can easily pick out the best content.

Awareness 101

Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 101

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more.

Trend 96

Trend Nonprofit Blackbaud Social Media 96

sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. The online giving trend is positive on a year-over-year basis when international relief organizations are removed from the analysis. All Rights Reserved

Blackbaud 68

Blackbaud Trend Nonprofit Fundraising 68

Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

The category text embeddings are obtained by feeding the category names through the text model of pretrained VLM (which has both image and text models)r. Evaluation We apply F-VLM to the popular LVIS open-vocabulary detection benchmark. The VLM image encoder consists of two parts: 1) a feature extractor and 2) a feature pooling layer.

Language 96

Language Model Open Train 96

Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

We present a set of prompting techniques that enable interaction designers and developers to quickly prototype and test novel language interactions with users, which saves time and resources before investing in dedicated datasets and models. During prediction, we feed the model the prompt with a new input screen appended at the end.

Interaction 104

Interaction Conversation Mobile Summary 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

One of our most valued nonprofit resources is our time, especially in these days of tighter budgets and cutbacks in funding. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Are you impulse adopting tools?

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Social Tips 99

sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. We got over-fixated because it was hard to accept that people can talk back now. All Rights Reserved

Trend 72

Trend Question Nonprofit Blackbaud 72

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. The first step in breaking down the mental silos is to remove the physical silos. You will be amazed at what happens. All Rights Reserved

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Chart Trend Blackbaud Nonprofit 64

Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Importantly, 98% of business users that we surveyed say they need analytic resources to perform their job effectively,” shared Courtney Smith, Illumina Senior Manager of Data and Analytics Commercial Team. “We Illumina, the world's leading DNA sequencing company, has accelerated its journey to data maturity. But where should you begin?

Analytics 102

Analytics Government Culture Data 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

There is no data to provide benchmarks for the optimal number of times to post to Threads on a weekly basis, but through experimentation, Nonprofit Tech for Good has settled on posting every other day. A good example is this @UNESCO post and photo with embedded text, their logo, and a link to their disinformation resource.

Practice 208

Practice Nonprofit Social Media Profile 208

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

One benefit of focus groups is the ability for participants to feed off each other’s energy and bounce ideas off one another. Internally they can assist in managing performance at the departmental or affiliate-level using dashboards and benchmark progress over time. concerns, suggestions, strengths, etc.).

Measure 81

Measure Impact Issue Survey 81

Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Importantly, 98% of business users that we surveyed say they need analytic resources to perform their job effectively,” shared Courtney Smith, Illumina Senior Manager of Data and Analytics Commercial Team. “We Illumina, the world's leading DNA sequencing company, has accelerated its journey to data maturity. But where should you begin?

Analytics 98

Analytics Government Culture Data 98

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. What would you stop doing? What would you start doing? All Rights Reserved

Trend 58

Trend Nonprofit Blackbaud RSS 58