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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Content to be rewritten. New content to be created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. These techniques will save blood, sweat, and tears down the road.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These included benchmarks which aimed to evaluate whether the model could help with the development of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons. In the past week, we've shown that prompt evaluation can be used to prevent jailbreaks. He argues that the models may be more dangerous than OpenAI believes or indicates.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Emergency Social Data Survey Results – americanredcross's posterous – Check out the slides and data from the American Red Cross's survey on Emergency Social Data! It contributes to evaluation because it provides data on impact and outcomes that can be used to help assess the performance of the program as a whole."

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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. Step 3: Discuss the results. Review the the results. It does require a learning curve to master in addition to the technique.

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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. As a result, it has retrofitted an impressive breadth of buildings, including malls, big box stores, strip malls, offices, hospitals, libraries, post offices, and even jails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

2) Always Be Evaluating To ensure that healthy Leadership Alignment actually leads to excellence, there is just one question, the most important question, that brand leaders must ask every single day: “Is it true?” It’s disconnected from others’ lived experiences (See Brand Delta), which can result in skepticism about who you say you are.

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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. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I’ll share the results and insights during our panel. I worked with Alexandra and her company to design a study that gather insights about social media usage and charitable giving.

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Explanations around data, models , and blueprints are extensive throughout the platform so you’ll always understand your results. That’s why we’ve made it a point to use language agnostic techniques throughout the platform, so you’ll always have the full power of the platform behind you. Unlocking the Value of Text Data.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

But Google wants to do more to direct people to the information they need, and says new AI techniques that better parse the complexities of language are helping. By leveraging BERT, Google says it’s “reduced unexpected shocking results by 30%” year-on-year. For Google, though, such trade-offs are apparently worth it.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

We present a set of prompting techniques that enable interaction designers and developers to quickly prototype and test novel language interactions with users, which saves time and resources before investing in dedicated datasets and models. To address these challenges, we developed a set of techniques to prompt LLMs with mobile UIs.

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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. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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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. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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).

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 15, 2023

In this setting, models that are able to override prior knowledge and learn input-label mappings in-context should experience a decrease in performance (since ground-truth evaluation labels are not flipped). Indeed, we see that using semantically-unrelated labels results in a greater performance drop for small models. 90% → 22.5%

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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. Forecast Accuracy computes the rate of error of prior forecasts vs. actual results or performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Participants took the assessment and we saw the aggregate results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Google has launched Analytics Academy , a three-week online course t three-week course offers the basics for those seeking to understand the how to improve results through better digital measurement. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JANUARY 31, 2025

Published on January 31, 2025 3:36 PM GMT This is a linkpost for a new research paper of ours , introducing a simple but powerful technique for preventing Best-of-N jailbreaking. This success persisted even when utilizing smaller LLMs to power the evaluation (Claude and LLaMa-3-8B-instruct proved almost equally capable). It blocks 99.5-100%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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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've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Take Breaks.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Motivated by this, and the results from scaling LLMs, we decided to undertake the next step in the journey of scaling the Vision Transformer. As a result of its modified architecture, efficient sharding recipe, and bespoke implementation, it was able to be trained on Cloud TPUs with a high hardware utilization 1.

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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. Use your results to reassess your goals and priorities. It is important to analyze your data regularly.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

After every session of therapy delivered using HelloHero, therapists and parents are asked to evaluate the clinical progress a child is making. based text-therapy company which closed a $53 million Series B round in November, has also asked participants to evaluate their progress over the course of treatment.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Evaluation High-resolution fire signals from polar-orbiting satellites are a plentiful source for training data. To evaluate our wildfire tracker model without such bias, we compared it against fire scars (i.e., To evaluate our wildfire tracker model without such bias, we compared it against fire scars (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Have you discovered engaging content that inspires your audience to an action that reaches your goals? Do you use any of these techniques?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SEO is a set of techniques for making your website more discoverable to people using search engines to find information. These platforms use complex algorithms to determine which websites to display in search results based on their relevancy to what people are looking for. Enter search engine optimization (SEO). Meta description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results. Donna Mehr, Smart Annual Giving, wrote “ How To Evaluate the ROI of Your Annual Appeal.” The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2022

Physicians will do a full evaluation and publish their results. Advocates of the technique imagine a steady supply of animal organs could help treat the thousands of people on waitlists for organ transplants. Bennett’s death shows the challenges of animal-to-human transplants, called xenotransplantation.

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