Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. It does require a learning curve to master in addition to the technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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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. Omaha-based architecture firm DLR Group is widening the scope of creative reuse, tackling an unusually diverse range of projects and scales with its extensive in-house expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

I'm excited about the chance to continue to make my case that Just Another Emperor utilizes spin techniques rather than balanced research in its quest to make the case for its policy recommendations. Look at the spin technique being used here. Michael's post provides ample opportunity to make my points more clearly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. I later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ). The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. In my group, we identified four broad themes for the first question: Improved training technique.

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Social Media Media Social Technique 94

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Marigold , its cloud-hosted mineral exploration platform, features hyperspectral processing, The technique enables precise mineral composition analysis that accelerates ore discovery while minimizing unnecessary drilling. Air Force, Varda Space Industries, and others, continue to transform testing and evaluation.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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Case Study Social Media Conversation Studies 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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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. Filtering: Identifying groups of good sources or key words – so you can laser in on the topic. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Content Nonprofit Skills Technique 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Train 116

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. User groups and forums dedicated to your fund accounting system and Microsoft Power Platform are particularly useful. Start by selecting a specific department or group to pilot the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Train 113

Tableau

JANUARY 11, 2022

As enterprises expand their use of Tableau, data security techniques using data source filters and user calcs become harder to maintain and scale. That’s all there is to it—when anyone queries that table, the policy condition will be evaluated for each row. If it evaluates to TRUE, the row will be returned. Want to learn more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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Awareness Social Media Tips RSS 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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Network Strategy Learning Build 98

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These grant forms enabled TAG to not only determine the level of overlap between questions (39 percent) but also to identify groups of shared questions. 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.

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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. . What are the key functions of a sales operations group? Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Structure Metrics Synchronous Train 161

Tableau

JANUARY 11, 2022

As enterprises expand their use of Tableau, data security techniques using data source filters and user calcs become harder to maintain and scale. That’s all there is to it—when anyone queries that table, the policy condition will be evaluated for each row. If it evaluates to TRUE, the row will be returned. Want to learn more?

Policy 98

Policy Data Map Virtual 98

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Here are a few areas to give your staff the freedom to experiment: Emerging tools and techniques: Have employees play around with tools and techniques relevant to technology-powered fundraising.

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Team Fundraising Tips Train 98

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. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

As you start to feel the priorities of your community evolving, here are four ways to evaluate and respond so your grantmaking organization stays relevant to your community’s changing needs. There are many ways to engage your community, including surveys, focus groups, town hall meetings, and social media.

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Organization Change Community Evaluation 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Data Help Nonprofit Measure 109

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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Results Data Nonprofit Social Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. a hat tip to one of the local area codes.

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Knowledge Goal Share Giving 101

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. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Data Help Nonprofit Measure 111

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: . . I've also learned I always get a mixed group. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Map Profit System Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 99