Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Meet Carbon Maps , a new French startup that raised $4.3 The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the food industry so that they can track the environmental impact of each of their products in their lineup. Carbon Maps focuses on the food industry and evaluates the environmental impact of products — not companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

With a heightened focus on building new partnerships, the importance of stewardship is often overlooked in corporate fundraising. Stellar stewardship can deepen your relationship with your partners and help build trust in your area of expertise that in turn translates to positive funds for your mission. 3) Reporting Is Everything!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. Come to the session with your online campaign ideas, and get ready to have fun mapping out a campaign!

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

AI research lab DeepMind has created the most comprehensive map of human proteins to date using artificial intelligence. Proteins are long, complex molecules that perform numerous tasks in the body, from building tissue to fighting disease. Image: DeepMind. Example protein structures predicted by AlphaFold.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This representative should be dedicated to building lasting relationships with members and helping your organization fine-tune culture, products, and services to meet their changing needs. The ability to accurately develop personas and create their journey maps. Wait, before you stop reading, this question isn’t as silly as it sounds.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 6, 2023

To address these challenges, in “ Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval ”, we propose a task called zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR). To that end, we use a lightweight mapping sub-module in CLIP that is designed to map an input picture (e.g., cat”) in the textual input space.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners.” Hopefully, a crisis is not in your future.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Can AI be a therapist, a tutor, or build a car? She says some companies are going beyond the basics of watching or listening to employees, like using AI tools for things like heat mapping. But many of us also have concerns about how AI is being incorporated into our fields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. What are the most important stages of the network catalyzing and building process?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. Building on that listening, and supporting you in taking action based on what you hear, it’s integral that you have the capacity to change. There may be many things you do and provide that the community loves. What roles are needed?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them. Goals & Objectives. My review of The Pollyanna Principles.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

The AI made a mental map of the world to collect the games most sought-after material. One of the most popular games ever , Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools. The first of these models the Minecraft world, building an internal understanding of its physics and how actions work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Explore how the strategic integration of SWOT analysis, audience mapping, SMART communication targets, channel identification, content strategy, execution and evaluation, and high-level communications planning can shape a successful digital transformation. ChatGPT can help in generating actionable steps for execution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. Build Relationships and Issues Awareness: You’re interacting with key audiences on the social media channel in order to build awareness for your organization's brand. What else might you add or change? Identify Objectives. What do you want to accomplish with social media?

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By building on the momentum of a single giving day, you can extend the excitement through December and maximize your impact before the year comes to a close. Evaluate and Reflect on GivingTuesday’s Success After the flurry of GivingTuesday activity subsides, take a moment to pause and reflect. Here’s how to do it.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Visually map these processes to help you identify inefficiencies and opportunities for automation or improvement. Use this process map to pinpoint where enhancements will be most impactful. And having this process map will make your next extensibility project go even faster.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It’s now at the heart of modern life: everything from Amazon package deliveries to our cars and trucks to our walks through national parks are centered around a pin on a map that monitors us down to a few meters. and another to build power-efficient chips that can scan for these signals and triangulate a coordinate (that’s the hard part!).

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Candid

JANUARY 9, 2025

Yet, we see that many organizations are still quick to limit or cut back technology-related investments of all kinds, including training, evaluation, planning, and community feedback. Organizations need to realize that treating technology as a peripheral expense actually limits mission delivery and effectiveness.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Every early-stage startup must identify and evaluate a strategic advantage. Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. Every early-stage startup must identify and evaluate a strategic advantage. Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Want to build a powerful movement online? Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping. How do you find a developer to build an app?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had experienced a digital land-grab; putting up profiles and setting up accounts in the “if you build it, they will come” spirit. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. We build in evaluation and communication check-points to the way we engage with our community, in the same way we do to our overall strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 13, 2023

Building a maintainable and modular LLM application stack with Hamilton in 13 minutes LLM Applications are dataflows, use a tool specifically designed to express them LLM stacks. Hamilton is great for describing any type of dataflow , which is exactly what you’re doing when building an LLM powered application. Image from pixabay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities. You can go to a map and see what's already been done in the district. Apparently this happens a fair amount.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Whether driving engagement with fans, or helping athletes reach their potential, Team USA is all-in with analytics—building a digital HQ with Tableau and Salesforce Customer 360. Data is foundational to building a digital HQ, and the positive impacts of data-first thinking can be seen across the Team USA organization. Athlete scouting.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

We are, all of us, part of many communities and it is within these spaces that we build our lives and the world. Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it. Libraries can and should be doing the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Whether driving engagement with fans, or helping athletes reach their potential, Team USA is all-in with analytics—building a digital HQ with Tableau and Salesforce Customer 360. Data is foundational to building a digital HQ, and the positive impacts of data-first thinking can be seen across the Team USA organization. Athlete scouting.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

By evaluating factors like donation history, engagement levels, and specific interests, you can pinpoint individuals who are not only passionate about your cause but also likely to bring valuable skills and commitment to your board. Conduct regular planning sessions to map your nonprofit’s future with your board’s input.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

The good news is that you likely already use at least one marketing tool, meaning you are well on your way to building a MarTech stack. Explore the steps below to learn how to build a MarTech stack and how your team can use those tools. The post How to Build Your Nonprofit’s MarTech Stack appeared first on Media Cause.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Agency for International Development developed the “ New Partnerships Initiative ” (NPI) to build a “safer, healthier and more prosperous” world for people everywhere. More than 7,000 citizens participated in three cities, showing Colombian authorities through mapping where the most high-impact areas were located. In 2019, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it The book is well-researched, well-written – and gives you the map for navigating in an increasingly complex world. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Instead, its actively building platforms for everything from drug discovery (Clara for Biopharma) to autonomous vehicles (Drive AGX) to video production (Holoscan) to digital twins (Omniverse). The Gemini model is also notable for being able to control other Google services such as Maps and Search.

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