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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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How to Make Your Nonprofit Recession-Proof: Perfect Your Operating Reserves Policy

Blue Fox

This article is all about shoring up your ability to sustain operations when the unexpected happens (like when your office temp is 88 degrees) internally or externally. First off: do you have an operating reserves policy? If so, when is the last time your leadership team reviewed the policy?

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Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage

TechCrunch

It started in January, when prices jumped to $37,000 per metric ton from $10,000 a month earlier, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is expecting demand to grow to 2.4 To meet demand, Benchmark says that $42 billion will need to be invested in the space by the end of this decade.

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Open Source Vizier: Towards reliable and flexible hyperparameter and blackbox optimization

Google Research AI blog

OSS Vizier is designed for two main purposes: (1) managing and optimizing experiments at scale in a reliable and distributed manner for users, and (2) developing and benchmarking algorithms for automated machine learning (AutoML) researchers. a Pythia policy ) to compute the following suggestions.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

A board diversity policy amplifies what is expected of board members and describes how people who have been historically marginalized can participate effectively as board members, as mentioned by Kathleen Buse, Ruth Sessler Bernstein and Diana Bilimoria in their article " The Influence of Board Diversity."

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How Mature Is Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Practice?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Walkers have internalized listening and are able to use the data they collect to improve engagement and content best practices. The nonprofit’s social media policy formalizes the value and vision for social media use and networked approach and encourages “outsiders&# or free agents to help with implementation.

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Preference learning with automated feedback for cache eviction

Google Research AI blog

An important algorithmic piece of cache management is the decision policy used for dynamically updating the set of items being stored, which has been extensively optimized over several decades, resulting in several efficient and robust heuristics. The eviction decisions rely on a filtering mechanism with two steps.