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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

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. A key element of the design is its green paseo, located on a former adjacent roadway, which hosts a weekly farmers market.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

"A recent Reuter’s article: Top Ten Trends in Sustainable Business, focuses on the best trends in “green business,&# I’m struck by how many of the points are applicable to sustainable social media. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery

Google Research AI blog

The visible channels (blue, green, and red) mostly show the triangular smoke plume, while the 3.85 Note the smoke plume in the visible channels (blue, green, and red), and the ring indicating the current burn area in the 3.85μm band. To evaluate our wildfire tracker model without such bias, we compared it against fire scars (i.e.,

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How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

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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The Flan Collection: Advancing open source methods for instruction tuning

Google Research AI blog

We show that training a model on this collection yields improved performance over comparable public collections on all tested evaluation benchmarks, e.g., a 3%+ improvement on the 57 tasks in the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) evaluation suite and 8% improvement on BigBench Hard (BBH).