Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

CodeSignal For helping new tech workers brush up on their technical and soft skills CodeSignal is a popular skills assessment platform to evaluate candidates used by recruiters and hiring teams at major companies like Meta and Uber. Through AI simulations, users can practice real-world communication and work on their leadership skills.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

They feel their philanthropic investments are de-risked when they evaluate opportunities as a group with unique perspectives and when they can experience community building in the process. But as the head of my family foundation, I believe we have to start conversations around wealth at a younger age.

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Many are subscribed to the notion that AI cannot possibly understand the nuance and subtlety required to make the best evaluations and decision recommendations. However, the conversation must start somewhere and there is promise that empathy can coexist within AI systems. Dimensions of Trust. Empathetic AI Requires Empathetic Teams.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” The conversation must be reset, moving away from how do we do this to why are we going to do this and finally to how do we build from there ? AD = After Disruption. AC = After COVID.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn’t and make adjustments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. How do you evaluate your programs and services? What is a movement? Or engagement?

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Tableau

JUNE 12, 2023

You can find them answering questions in our forums, publishing content on social platforms, leading or speaking at user groups, teaching others how to use Tableau APIs, and sharing data visualization best practices. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire. Ambassadors try out new things, and they push us to get better.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

That struggle was particularly challenging for trade schools, many of which were not designed to teach online and were mostly paper-driven. . It was a space that, for some odd reason, was largely being left out of the education conversation.”. CourseKey , a San Diego-based trade school management SaaS startup, was in a unique position.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

They’re really good at a lot of other things, but how do we get this person to understand the in-person conversation is key? . Teach your staff to fish: People aren’t born knowing how to build a major donor pipeline and expertly move folks through this pipeline. — Fear of Being Held Back. Provide training and/or coaching.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 23, 2021

Post-Course Evaluation: Once a course completes, this journey will trigger an email to all students who have completed the course with a link to complete an evaluation on the course and its instructor, so that improvements can continue to be made! Blog: How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot. At-Risk Student Journey.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2022

You can find them answering questions in our forums, publishing content on social platforms, leading or speaking at user groups, contributing code on Github, and teaching people about data visualization. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire. Ambassadors try out new things, and they push us to get better. Pacific Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection. I would add another way to add or get value and that is join the conversation in the comments of follow curators and ask them your questions. Illustrating / Visualizing: Add an illustration to the resource or collection.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Discover how Duolingo started with CEO Luis von Ahn at Disrupt 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. The day before our session, I was lucky enough to participate in the 10th Penguin Day where we had an amazing conversation about nonprofit technology capacity building. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. ” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those of us who have planned, executed and evaluated these types of contests for good on behalf of major brands have done so with the best intentions and not to “cause wash” — i.e., buy good brand karma under the guise of philanthropy. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. What : Online events aren’t only about having a conversation on your own website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

Invest in evaluation tools. We’ll look more comprehensively at evaluation as a core strategy in part five of this series because taking an analytic approach to digital, or any other strategy, is the only way to know what’s working/what’s not working. . Tip: Don’t get freaked out by technology. It’s simply a tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You want someone who is open to learning and a good listener and can teach others network weaving skills. They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Maybe this conversations could take place on an existing community of practice ( Iscale ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context. There was a very productive conversation. Whenever I teach workshops, I try to identify people in the community who have knowledge. Evaluation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Evaluate cross-functional process flow. It is critical to stop and take the time to evaluate the cross-functionality of all school areas. In a connected school, processes must be continuously evaluated and modified for the best outcome for the greater good. and discuss those department processes.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 18, 2021

I’ve had several conversations with him, and he says I can stay in touch. What do you want to teach your children and grandchildren? . This keys you into information about what type of impact your donor is hoping to have and how they evaluate opportunities. . I just don’t know how to proceed. .

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Sometimes, through our conversations, it’s decided that a nonprofit may not be the best fit for an idea, or that the organization has some more work to do before it’s ready to apply for a grant. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them. These discussions are a valuable service in itself.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 10, 2023

Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes Cheng-Yu Hsieh*, Chun-Liang Li , Chih-Kuan Yeh , Hootan Nakhost , Yasuhisa Fujii , Alex Ratner, Ranjay Krishna, Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister Large Language Models with Controllable Working Memory Daliang Li , Ankit Singh Rawat , Manzil Zaheer , Xin Wang , Michal Lukasik (..)

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sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Do adjunct professors at your institution have the flexibility to teach remotely on days when their personal life would dictate it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. We had a rich conversation about overall design – the process of vetting participants, participant expectations, and their commitment to do the work. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

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. Global Conversations. Ugandan Prime Minister @AmamaMbabazi is the most conversational world leader with 96% of his tweets being @replies to other Twitter users.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2021

That’s a good start, but you’ll want to further evaluate this proposal because it’s not a “one and done” gift where you accept a property then use it or sell it as you please. You’ve clearly already considered this by proposing turning the property into a commercial venture that would support its upkeep.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The papers, in turn, outline how to introduce de novo modalities to an LLM, how to graft a state-of-the-art medical imaging foundation model onto a conversational LLM, and first steps towards building a truly generalist multimodal medical AI system. This approach has some important benefits.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2022

Even when we teach and re-teach how to carry the laptop from one class to another, slips and drops happen.”. Boot time also came up a few times in my conversations with teachers. After all, these devices are used all day, every day, by many different students who may not be particularly invested in their longevity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. How to begin to have conversations to understand it.

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