Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hoping to hop on the 2022 Benchmarks train? This Friday (December 3) is the last day to sign up to be part of the next Benchmarks journey ! And please reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com with any questions. The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Even many of the standard datasets we use today have been shown to have mislabeled data that can destabilize established ML benchmarks. In this blogpost, we outline dataset development bottlenecks confronting researchers and discuss the role of benchmarks and leaderboards in incentivizing researchers to address these challenges.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In light of this data scarcity, we position FRMT as a benchmark for few-shot translation, measuring an MT model’s ability to translate into regional varieties when given no more than 100 labeled examples of each language variety. While human evaluation is the best way to be sure of model quality, it is often slow and expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

But it isn’t just about the presenting content, it is about applying the ideas in a series of small experiments or action learning experiments and sharing insights with peers. Use promoted posts to accelerate the engagement of good quality content that you know from previous measurement insights performs well. Do a content audit.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. Denial: You can’t measure social media! Confusion: I don’t know what or how to measure social media. Measurement Love: Connecting measurement to decision-making and getting better results.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The rapid growth of AI presents us with a profound challenge as well as an extraordinary opportunity—and an urgent need—to ensure that sustainability is at the forefront of its development and application. Eco-Design : From the ground up, we can help you design AI systems that prioritize efficiency and align with sustainability goals.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

My presentation covered how nonprofits can learn from what the corporate world is doing. A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. You can find more ideas in my presentation below. You can find more ideas in my presentation below.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. Time to build and maintain  — The time it takes to build and maintain your key data assets, including data products and machine learning capabilities, is a key lever that measures your data team’s productivity. Image by author.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

When presenting your case to decision-makers, summarize -- but have additional details at your fingertips if you are asked. Keep an eye out for published studies from credible sources that provide acceptable benchmarks about efficiency or effectiveness of a particular technology. Metrics are a unit of measure. It is Credible.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report. Still, these reports are some of the best measuring sticks we have. donating money).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. Download Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.  Photo by Smitty42.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Social Media Roi Slidesbk. Notes and Resources.

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

Fundraising benchmarks help you elevate where your current strategy shines compared to peers in the sector. Present clear areas of opportunity with data-driven recommendations that lead your organization down a proactive path to success. . Step 2: Know Which Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board.

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Slideshare Benchmark Fundraising Share 56

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. Caity and Gary Carr , co-founder of Third Sector Labs, co-presented. You may also download a copy of the presentation.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

Debbie and Gary Carr , CEO of Third Sector Labs, co-presented. QUESTION: NTEN just held an online fundraising benchmark webinar, where they talked about email open rates being low, and organizations raising something like $17 for every 1000 emails sent. DEBBIE: From our experience, industry benchmarking can be tricky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. .&#

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

Blackbaud’s 2013 Peer to Peer Fundraising Benchmark report provides information that you can use to not only measure your success but to learn about trends and best practices in event fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Earlier this summer I posted on top tips for measuring ROI and getting strategic with data , touching on the idea and importance of actionable data, or rather, data that helps draw meaningful conclusions and future actions to optimize programs. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

Next each of the panelists presented a research study based that combined large sample survey data on our issue area and appended actual social media activity usage. Jeremiah presented an overview of his study about the collaborative economy and you find Jeremiah’s report and infographic here.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the holidays, I used DataRobot to reproduce a few machine learning benchmarks. The SARCOS dataset is a widely used benchmark dataset in machine learning. I tested this dataset because it appears in various benchmarks by Google and fast.ai. Thousands of data scientists have used it to benchmark their machine learning code.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.” I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. The most valuable part of the blog benchmarking process is the reflection process and linking insights to making improvements.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Presented by: Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge Remember, we're not saying you can't have fun using social media at work, just that collecting data proving that fun is valuable will serve you well in the long run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Facebook Network Nonprofit Social Media 102

Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In “ Confident Adaptive Language Modeling ”, presented at NeurIPS 2022 , we introduce a new method for accelerating the text generation of LMs by improving efficiency at inference time. First, we define a local confidence measure for capturing the model’s confidence in its intermediate prediction. decoder layers on average.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

In “Enabling Conversational Interaction with Mobile UI using Large Language Models” , presented at CHI 2023 , we investigate the viability of utilizing large language models (LLMs) to enable diverse language-based interactions with mobile UIs. We focus on factual questions, which require answers based on information presented on the screen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

There have been several startup attempts to measure staff morale, some more halting that others. But now a Bristol-based, UK startup hopes to make waves in the ‘workplace measurement’ space, and it plans to use the rocket fuel of Generative AI. Officevibe appeared around the same kind’ve era. Loopin has now raised a £1.6

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

These tools – all quick hits you can get started with easily – focus on everything from research and writing to benchmarking and analyzing. This tools measures a ton of different readability scores, and does a good job of explaining each one. Must Be Present. Here’s hoping you find the perfect shortcut for your work !

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Collaborative Benchmarking Analysis); * The average online gift was $144.72, according to BlackBaud though M&R’s benchmark study noted that the average one time online gift was $81. How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fact that startups have become more expensive, measured by comparing their valuations to their revenues, is reasonable. If the value of software stocks is on the ascent, startups benchmarking their present and future worth have rich comps to leverage. The result? Rising startup prices. Stocks go up and stocks go down.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

Consequently, academic benchmarks report strong model accuracy, but these same models do poorly when used for complex real-world applications. We list five requirements for a good document understanding benchmark, based on the kinds of real-world documents for which document understanding models are frequently used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Reporting begins with benchmarking.

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