Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. The vendor will craft the system and recommendations according to your internal constraints and capabilities. In addition to analytics, you will also need to get feedback from actual users of the site.

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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. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

The first three focus on “internal” strategies for keywords, content, and site organization—things you can do within your web properties to optimize them for search. This framework is used by Google’s human evaluators to assess the quality of web pages and provide feedback on the search algorithm. These isolated pages can harm SEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. Use digital storytelling techniques. Evaluate and iterate on learning experiences. What needs adjustment?

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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. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set. T This board is also using social media as part of its governance role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. I found this book invaluable as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies when teaching graduate courses. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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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 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Set Goals by Katie Eickhoff, Social Media Manager/Senior Media Analyst for CARMA International talks that critical first step of the process – goal setting. Donna Mehr, Smart Annual Giving, wrote “ How To Evaluate the ROI of Your Annual Appeal.” Want Useful Analytics? ” Advocacy Campaigns. ” Social Media.

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Measure Learning Case Study Social Media 118

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. Evaluation of sales processes, and salesforce structure. Performance Metrics Analyses. Market training.

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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. Use this information internally and share it freely during your search. . Evaluation matrix . Define your project and the project goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The two founders met at an internal hackathon at Google, bonded over their shared experience around technical interviews, and decided to do something about it. As Kaur put it, when an NBA team is evaluating a basketball player, the coaches don’t have him outline plays on a whiteboard in the locker room.

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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. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. Remote teams can refocus on development by sharing resources, finding budget-friendly ways to grow together, and taking advantage of internal opportunities. It’s harder to read reactions and feel connected.

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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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OpenAI

JULY 18, 2022

Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt describing a person that does not specify race or gender, like “firefighter.”

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We think this adversarial style of evaluation and iteration is necessary to ensure an AI system has a low probability of catastrophic failure. Through these research directions, we aim to develop robust safety techniques that mitigate risks from AIs before those risks emerge in real-world deployments.

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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. It is a "What happens Vegas, stays in Vegas" rule if any internal politics or grantees names are mentioned.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

NAS, a family of techniques on which Deci heavily relies, can help automatically discover low-cost, optimal models for a given problem. Others have tapped Deci to build better models for their own internal computing, even when they theoretically have the GPUs and compute power on hand to run anything.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Income-based valuations consider aspects like CAPM (capital asset pricing model), IRR (internal rate of return), NPV (net present value), WACC (weighted average cost of capital), NCF (net cash flow), and GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). Financial buyers evaluate each purchasing opportunity as a stand-alone acquisition.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

You can also create approval workflows that match your internal controls and send notifications and reminders to your approvers. Scenario budgeting is a technique that allows you to create different versions of your budget based on different assumptions and contingencies.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Monitoring outputs alone is insufficient, since the AI might produce seemingly benign outputs while its internal reasoning is misaligned. We thus evaluate if linear probes can robustly detect deception by monitoring model activations. 2023 ) and purposely underperforming on safety evaluations ( Benton et al.,

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

The company, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphabet, is releasing the data for free, with some scientists comparing the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project, an international effort to map every human gene. Their purpose is dictated by their structure, which folds like origami into complex and irregular shapes.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 29, 2023

Regardless of the reason why data is missing, it is important to investigate whether the datasets contain missing data prior to model building, as this problem may have severe consequences for classifiers: Some classifiers cannot handle missing values internally: This makes them inapplicable when handling datasets with missing data.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

That’s a problem for features currently built into devices — but it’s also a bad sign for efforts to use light sensors for new applications in wearables, like monitoring blood pressure , says study author Jessica Ramella-Roman, an associate professor studying bioimaging sensors at Florida International University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. I like those the most, but often have to delete them from presentations in an international context. Evaluation. It always helps me improve practice. A lot of it is re-framing and re-purposing.

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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. They used GyrusAim LMS to enhance training efficiency, track compliance, and improve internal communication among employees.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. You'll need both internal information gathering -- looking at previous year's budgets and actual performance, for example -- as well as outside research.

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