Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

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. But there is much more potential to be tapped beyond the familiar conversion of industrial spaces and historic offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Only measure impact, not process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Today, we are excited to introduce conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in Spaces. This feature is enabled by our state-of-the-art abstractive summarization model, Pegasus , which generates useful and concise summaries for chat conversations, and is currently available to selected premium Google Workspace business customers.

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 1, 2022

By leveraging AI to target the right prospects with personalized promotions based on each customer’s unique attributes and purchase history, businesses can streamline customer segmentation and maximize conversions. Now, if you want to move forward with the model, the next step is to evaluate the fit. AI Experience 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. If you want engagement on social media channels, identify good conversation starters that are relevant to your audience, will ignite their passion or nostalgia about the subject matter. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014. Engagement'

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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

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This ongoing evaluation not only keeps your project on track but also ensures you can demonstrate its value clearly and convincingly. By participating in these conversations, you gain access to collective knowledge that can enhance your projects success.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 21, 2023

We've shown that personalization can be successful with as little as 3-4 minutes of training speech using layer freezing techniques. In addition, the personalized models did not always perform well in freeform conversation. Real Conversation test set Unprompted or conversational speech differs from prompted speech in several ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

QUESTION: At our organization, we are re-evaluating our fundraising technology needs, but nobody is talking about strategy or data. Can you talk a bit about why these three need to be evaluated together? Jumping to the technology evaluation without first re-evaluating strategy is a mistake.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud) to automatically review customer support conversations from channels like web chats. For large companies that have millions of support tickets, it is crucial that managers are able to find the conversations that have a meaningful impact on performance. Klaus today closed a €12 million (~$11.49

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Buyers will value a site that attracts quality, converting traffic in reliable ways over one that uses shady techniques to attract traffic from anywhere. The current traffic’s conversion rate and yield. Website buyers are more likely to pay a premium for a site when they know they can easily improve its conversion rate.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Conversion Rates. Evaluation of sales processes, and salesforce structure. Sales Activities.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll also want to create an evaluation matrix—sort of a scorecard—so you can compare your candidates with more objectivity.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. An ability to understand and interpret emotions can help employees have better conversations.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

no potentially sensitive data) and evaluated performance on real, de-identified notes from inpatient and outpatient clinicians from different health systems. Adapting Protein Alignment Algorithms to Unstructured Clinical Text Evaluation of these models on the particular task of abbreviation expansion is difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. My central thesis is that social media can enhance all phases of the instructional design, delivery, and evaluation process: . . How to think like a social instructional designer. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Disaster work.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

We verify via out-of-distribution evaluations that the model generalizes to exhibit whatever behaviors it believes RMs rate highly, including ones not reinforced during training. Second, we conduct an unblinded follow-up study of eight techniques for auditing the model, analyzing their strengths and limitations.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

In practice, it includes sensitivity to conversational turn taking. One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. Encourage ongoing feedback Many organizations chose to bypass formal performance evaluations during the pandemic.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation.

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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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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our ongoing work on LaMDA explores how these models can be used for safe, grounded, and high-quality dialog to enable contextual multi-turn conversations. Natural conversations are clearly an important and emergent way for people to interact with computers. I’m excited about the progress we’ve made in making LaMDA useful and factual.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. Ask if anyone has any questions.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 9, 2023

The mean absolute error of the pipeline was 67 euros, which is pretty good considering we did not apply any outlier treatment technique, created only two new features and just set the maximum depth and number of estimators parameters on the Random Forest Regressor, which leaves room for hyperparameter tuning on the regressor.

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