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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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

One solution that can address information overload is summarization — for example, to help users improve their productivity and better manage so much information, we recently introduced auto-generated summaries in Google Docs. Today, we are excited to introduce conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in Spaces.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Present the most qualified candidates to the board after conducting extensive in-depth interviews and personality assessments and evaluations that best match the ideal position profile. This summary should also accompany the candidate’s cover letter and resume. This summary should also accompany the candidate’s cover letter and resume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to improve decisions and get better results as a networked nonprofit. It’s a must read for data nerds. His answer: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. Bibliography with links and summaries of studies reviewed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

Published on March 17, 2025 7:11 PM GMT Note: this is a research note based on observations from evaluating Claude Sonnet 3.7. Were sharing the results of these work-in-progress investigations as we think they are timely and will be informative for other evaluators and decision-makers. Claude Sonnet 3.7 We find that Sonnet 3.7

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DataRobot

APRIL 20, 2021

This includes the basics: Computing summary statistics on each feature Measuring associations between features Observing feature distributions and their correlation with the predictive target Identifying outliers. Accuracy is a subset of model performance indicators that measure the model’s aggregated errors in different ways.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Over the past year, we have been experimenting with infographics, data visualizations, stylized executive summaries, even cartoons to help spread our findings. Why is outcome measurement important, and how is an infographic like this going to help in that effort? had a great story to tell. For years KaBOOM!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Executive Summary. The Executive Summary is the first thing that any potential partner or supporter will read, and it introduces the mission and purpose of your nonprofit. Evaluation Plan. This can be a separate section, or evaluation methods can be added to various other sections.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

The task output is the desired outcome for the target tasks, e.g., a screen summary or an answer to a user question. In an evaluation, we solicited human ratings on whether the questions were grammatically correct (Grammar) and relevant to the input fields for which they were generated (Relevance).

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Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Then, the decoder outputs the summary by predicting it word by word. To decide whether to commit to a certain prediction or to postpone the prediction to a later layer, we measure the model’s confidence in its intermediate prediction. On all three tasks, the oracle measure can preserve full model performance when using only 1.5

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

More and more funders are asking for this kind of information, but most of them still provide nothing (money or expertise) to make it possible to manage and measure performance. So how can you build a system to measure outcome indicators and focus on your mission, if there is no funding to do so? Keystone Accountability.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For widget captioning and screen summarization tasks, we report CIDEr scores, which measure how similar a model text description is to a set of references created by human raters. For command grounding, we report accuracy that measures the percentage of times the model successfully locates a target object in response to a user command.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

But the most significant upgrade is found in its ability to measure your sleep without requiring you to wear anything. The new Hub does this thanks to its integrated Soli sensor technology, which can measure your movement during the night, even down to your breathing patterns. Image: Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

I discovered that it was Larry Eason from DotOrgPower and his colleague, Shelley Wenk, offered to write this summary of the discussion as a guest post. Here’s a summary of the discussion. measure the impact of foundation communications. NWAFound responded to an unfavorable performance evaluation with transparency.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. The hub offered voters real-time updates, candidate information, and ballot measure summaries, along with AI-generated analysis based on reliable data from The Associated Press and Democracy Works.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Alberto Cairo, data visualization expert and author of How Charts Lie Whether you are reading a social post, news article or business report, it’s important to know and evaluate the source of the data and charts that you view. When viewing summary numbers, evaluate if the summary number is appropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation. What are your questions about content curation?

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DataRobot

MAY 6, 2021

But how easy is it to evaluate the strengths of each? After the participants received advice, the researchers measured two things: how much the participants changed their estimates and their level of confidence. Measure the business value generated by deployed AI systems. The Dunning-Kruger Effect. Register Now.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2014

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

Furthermore, the model measures an organization’s progress in 4 stages: static, reactive, proactive, and innovative. After analyzing the assessment, a diagnosis is determined and they must then evaluate the tactical moves to strengthen the organization. Tune it to hear the rest! Listen now below, or on RSS and Spotify.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. This is useful as a measure of the effectiveness of your subject line.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 18, 2025

For example, in our original paper on AI control, the methodology we used for evaluating safety protocols implies that once the developer is confident that the model is a schemer, theyre totally fine with undeploying the untrusted model. [1] So safety and usefulness are measured with different experiments.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace , which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Measurable: It is measurable because it will serve 50 farmers and will increase irrigation by 25 percent each year for three years. Include the task description, role responsible, start date, completion date, evaluation that the activity is completed. will also reinforce more achievability).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

Fundraising Roles: How Organizations Structure Their Nonprofits Measuring Fundraising Efforts: Common KPIs What Software Helps Fundraising Efforts? Before launching a campaign, organizations should carefully evaluate their fundraising methods and messaging to ensure they align with their goals and available resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Here’s a quick summary of the highlights I took away from our conversation: MomsRising is focused on “movement-building” and large scale systems change, not just building an organization. Running MomsRising is as much a science as it is an art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. And both can be difficult to measure. t need to measure, it???s So it may hurt productivity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The valuation is not being disclosed, but as some measure of what is going on, David Klein, managing partner at One Peak, said in an interview that he expects Cymulate to hit a $1 billion valuation within two years at the rate it’s growing and bringing in revenue right now. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

CAF has coined the term “ philgorithms ” for algorithms of this kind.The report ends with a summary of high level trends that might impact civil society organizations, including a discussion on inequality, algorithmic bias and the future of work. 12 hosted by Data Analysts for Social Good features Peter York, an evaluation expert.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 12, 2025

Published on March 12, 2025 5:56 PM GMT Summary The Stages-Oversight benchmark from the Situational Awareness Dataset tests whether large language models (LLMs) can distinguish between evaluation prompts (such as benchmark questions) and deployment prompts (real-world user inputs).

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A summary of why I think human AI safety researchers should focus on safely replacing themselves with AI (passing the buck) instead of directly creating safe superintelligence. Argument #2: M_1 agents cannot subvert autonomous control measures while they complete the deferred task. M_1 consistently exceeds human performance.

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Forj

AUGUST 30, 2017

This year, Greg Lasko, Manager of Planning and Evaluation at CHEST, and our Dr. Andy Hicken, will be presenting a poster describing how CHEST has developed a standardized scorecard evaluation for its physician education courses. Psychometric measures of evaluation reliability and pre-post comparison drawn from our reliability report.

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