Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

See chart below.) GPT-3 was trained on a dataset with nearly a trillion words, and it sports a whopping 175 billion parameters, a key measure of the power and complexity of neural networks. This chart highlights the exponential growth in training compute requirements for notable machine learning models since 2012. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Data Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. What insights have you gained from measuring your content strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

I learned about measurement from Katie Delahaye Paine, who is the leading expert in measuring communications strategies. I was honored enough to co-author a book with Katie, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” a book about measuring social media and networks. So, I know first-hand how incredibly brilliant she is!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Measure, Test, Refine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Scaling is about increasing three main things during training, which typically need to grow together: The amount of data used for training the AI; The models size, measured in parameters; Computational resources, often called “compute” in AI. You can find this data point in the chart; it is the first one.

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Tableau

AUGUST 14, 2024

If I was trying to figure out what was causing a problem, I’d use the 5 whys technique developed by Toyota Motors founder Sakichi Toyoda. Chart showcasing a list of English speaking movies with an average IMDB rating higher than 8 in the Sci-Fi genre which is the population for this analysis. What type of terrain does the trail have?

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since Tableau's first release in 2004, all visualizations created inside Worksheets have been rendered using VizQL , a breakthrough technology that allows you to create a chart with a simple drag-and-drop. Shipping sankey chart by Tristan Guillevin. Say hello to complex charts, as easy as drag and drop. What are Viz Extensions?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? You should have a data collection system that helps evaluate which fundraising techniques bring in new donors and which techniques help you retain donors or take them to the next level. Management and Organizational Charts. What are the exact goals you are trying to achieve? Use only text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. 3: Have a measurement strategy on the front-end, not the back-end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other techniques. Please Retweet! Look at the friendly, smart and sexy people at #smdata panel! sxsw pic.twitter.com/VTGXGnD1Ww. The room was packed. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). What do the experts say? I found this video interview of Robert Scoble with Howard Rheingold about Scoble’s curation techniques and tools.

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DataRobot

JUNE 14, 2022

Looking at the bar chart, we see that the classes are “male” and “female.” The chart tells us the ratio of women that receive the positive outcome— having an income over $50K—to that of men. Clearly, this model is biased and we need to apply corrective measures to it if we wish to deploy it in the future. to that of men.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. Leveraging techniques he and his “Whiz Kids” first practiced in the Pacific Theater of WWII, McNamara devised a data-lead strategy for the commitment of American troops and materiel in Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 5, 2024

Make the most out of your BigQuery usage, burn data rather than money to create real value with some practical techniques. · ? When using cluster columns in your query filter, this technique will speed up the execution since BigQuery can determine which blocks to scan. Introduction · ? BigQuery Studio If it says 1.27

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DataRobot

MAY 26, 2022

However, with the widespread adoption of modern ML techniques, including gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) and deep learning algorithms , many traditional validation techniques become difficult or impossible to apply. Conceptual Soundness of the Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

But a technique first tested in the ’20s soon solved the problem. The anamorphic technique means you can capture and project a larger but distorted image, then convert it to the right aspect ratio in the image processor. The process isn’t exactly analogous to the film technique but it uses the same principles.).

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

They help your organization measure impact, follow regulations, and show donors you’re on top of the needs of your community. How to do it Create a separate account for each fund in your segmented chart of accounts and assign each transaction to the appropriate fund. But how do you perfect your nonprofit financial management?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As far as heat’s concerned, it’s a toss-up: both GPU sensors measured 72 degrees Celsius in the middle of a looped benchmark. And while Tom might tell you that Nvidia’s exclusive AI-upscaling DLSS technique can give you enough headroom with the 3070 to turn ray tracing on, I think it also depends on the size of your display.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

These strategic plans chart out campaign dates and strategies, donor-tracking and retention plans , special event details, and a targeted communication schedule. Heres how to get SMART when charting out your goals: Specific: What will the goal accomplish? Measurable: How will you measure success?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). For a more in-depth Analytics review, we might also establish some Goal Tracking to measure conversions on the website via email sign-up and/or donations. Methodology. Deliverables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. One category of apps that is useful to building Emotional Intelligence Skills are Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

This year, focus on a few measurable metrics like “percent of participants who fundraise”. Chart your progress over the event season; you may find you need to change tactics mid-season to achieve your goal. Chart your progress over the event season; you may find you need to change tactics mid-season to achieve your goal.

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Tableau

AUGUST 21, 2023

Get a quick look at tools and techniques of this dynamic data visualization platform, and uncover tips, tricks, and strategies that will propel how you work with data to create impactful visualizations and make informed decisions. It handles complicated operations and behind-the-scenes calculations to make helpful charts, graphs, and maps.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Measuring the Impact of Your Stories Measuring impact in nonprofit storytelling is a crucial step toward understanding the tangible outcomes of your efforts. Compassion Services International used powerful photos and other storytelling techniques to raise a significant amount of money for Ukraine Relief.

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