Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What is the way out of this problem? Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size. I have not done this yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Machine learning algorithms can now diagnose diseases, predict climate patterns, and solve complex problems that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. AI isn’t just a problem—it can also be a powerful tool used for environmental protection.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

While startup CEOs measure key metrics to keep tabs on how well their business is doing, it can be hard for them to know exactly what counts as a good figure or a bad figure. The idea is that CEOs have a simple reference point from which to identify problems, validate strategies, prioritize and set objectives.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Start with benchmark data. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. You know what they say about measurement, right? That which gets measured gets done!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But first, let’s talk about how you shouldn’t measure your capital efficiency. The biggest mistake in measuring your capital efficiency Understanding where you stand as a business boils down to the metrics you use and how well you can interpret them. Unfortunately, we see startups falling outside of these benchmarks all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Carie Lewis mentioned the Humane Society’s KPIs – which is why they do and how they measure this sustained engagement. I asked her how do you measure relationships? The problem is that most people are already doing something before they decide to measure. Do you measure along the ladder of engagement?

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DataRobot

APRIL 21, 2022

Leaderboards for popular benchmarks are full of examples of Red AI where improvements are often the result of scaling processing power. Here, model size is measured by the amount of floating-point operations. Measure efficiency, not only accuracy. To better quantify this, we have developed methods to measure efficiency.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this post, I point to several problems with the way we currently evaluate ANN indexes and suggest a new type of evaluation. Static workload benchmark is insufficient. The standard way to evaluate ANN indexes is to use a static workload benchmark , which consists of a fixed dataset and a fixed query set. Image by the author.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised a $46 million Series B. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Starting with OpenAIs pivotal o1 model, researchers began to apply more computing power to the real-time reasoning a model does just after a user prompts it with a problem or question. The model generates PhD-level answers to complex questions, landing it on top of performance benchmark rankings. The Gemini 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But these programs also have serious problems, including regurgitating sexist and racist language and failing tests of logical reasoning. DeepMind’s research confirms this trend and suggests that scaling up LLMs does offer improved performance on the most common benchmarks testing things like sentiment analysis and summarization.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

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. One important point that may be overlooked when looked at big data surveys is the purpose behind the online outreach that is being measured.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the holidays, I used DataRobot to reproduce a few machine learning benchmarks. In the section about tabular datasets, the authors use the Blue Book for Bulldozers problem, the goal of which is to predict the sale price for heavy equipment at auction. The SARCOS dataset is a widely used benchmark dataset in machine learning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Mitigating the effects of climate change and pollution is a global problem, but it’s one that requires local solutions. Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth.

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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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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. Set benchmarks for performance and accomplishments and highlight progress at each meeting. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 That assessment should include taking stock of the board’s performance on an ongoing basis.

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Tableau

JUNE 3, 2021

By dedicating time, attention, and resources to data projects that drive the most value, companies can solve the most complex challenges—the kinds of problems that keep executives up at night. Agree on metrics to measure progress. Communicate the benchmarks. Does the committee measure results and report findings?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

This is something we didn’t think would happen at the beginning, but then we realized that some of the problems we’re solving are also significant problems for high-net-worth individuals as well,” said Ferrario. “If The company says it has outperformed benchmarks since launching in 2017.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. We find that academic GNN benchmark datasets exist in regions where model rankings do not change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. I’ve been fascinated to see how these leaders saw the world and approached problem-solving. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

That’s made it difficult to measure exact gaming performance on the Book 3, but I’ve been impressed even without optimized drivers. This Surface Book detachable design has also caused issues in the past, with the Surface Book 2 experiencing a problem where the GPU would disappear and stop working.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. What problem spots do you already know about? Regularly collecting employee feedback can: Help you identify weak spots or perceived problems with different aspects of your talent strategy. What are you currently doing or not doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2011

Tracking what content is utilized, and the services rendered provide a means of measuring our success in achieving that mission. We started with Flickr since we wanted to resolve that data loss problem quickly as possible. Institutional objectives lead to Goals, which need Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

With the digital communications landscape evolving at light speed we wanted to track challenges, leadership attitudes, measurement strategies and 2014 investment plans. It appears to be an even greater hurdle to adoption than expertise (only 50% reported lack of expertise as a problem) or budget (reported at 52%). Greatest Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Building on last year’s session, we were pleased that this year we had the opportunity to introduce the “crowdsourcing” experiment to collectively solve our nonprofit technology problems." What does social media success look like, anyway?"

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “What we do at Nexthink is to take the [monitoring] problem from a completely different perspective. He says that they do this by looking at the problem from the employees’ perspective. That’s something we measure as a company,” he said.

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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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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More specifically, we study emergence by analyzing the performance of language models as a function of language model scale, as measured by total floating point operations (FLOPs), or how much compute was used to train the language model. Chain of thought prompting enables sufficiently large models to solve multi-step reasoning problems.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Note that in the paper we also explore several other problem domains, like video classification , depth estimation , and semantic segmentation. This toolbox measures three key metrics: How well do models cope with distortions (accuracy)? Out-of-distribution performance Measuring performance on OOD datasets helps assess generalization.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. The problem is that if you ask, ask, and ask some more, you’ll wear people out. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Then Google and Benchmark pumped $258 million more into it this past August. There’s also the enormous looming cost of distribution — one that’s hard to measure and even harder to predict. Fifteen years ago, starting a business was primarily a technology problem.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

That moves from media theory all the way through to measurement and sustainability. How do you avoid the “echo chamber&# problem of seeing the same people talking about the same things? Geoff’s new book is Welcome to the Fifth Estate: How to Create and Sustain a Winning Social Media Strategy. That means find new food.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

"I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?" The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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