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. Don't Praise.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. The resulting data set can be considered a convenience sample, capturing the latest demographic data that’s been shared by each participating organization. For example, U.S.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 21, 2023

It usually involves a cross-functional team of ML practitioners who fine-tune the models, evaluate robustness, characterize strengths and weaknesses, inspect performance in the end-use context, and develop the applications. Sign up to be notified when Visual Blocks for ML is publicly available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media. A streamlined and well designed dashboard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are 10 questions Polaris recommends you ask employees as part of a wide-ranging employee satisfaction and engagement survey : For each of the following statements, indicate if you: • Strongly disagree • Disagree • Somewhat disagree • Agree • Strongly agree 1. Don't Praise.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. .’ I say everybody can be great because everybody can Twive!”" ”" What Are We Accomplishing and How Do We Know? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Armed with this insight, Jaspers teamed up with Fernando Guillén to launch Latana , a platform that bids on mobile ad space to deliver short research surveys to users. He realized that phones could become a key way to reach people for product research purposes, opening the door to opportunities to hear new points of view.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The report “State of Fintech in Emerging Markets Report” has three objectives — to evaluate the investment, product, and inclusivity trends across emerging markets. The team surveyed over 177 startups and 33 investors across Africa, Latin America, and India. Let’s dive in.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 6, 2023

This allowed us to control for between-subject differences by comparing how the same individual responded to a variety of conditions, thus increasing statistical power and reducing the sample size necessary to detect statistical differences (sample sizes in our behavioral experiments range from ~ 20 to 30).

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? How are you using each piece of data you collect from your grantees?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Know the Source 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. What was the sample size of the data? Does the sample properly represent the population? How many people did you survey? Don’t be SCAM’d!

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape the design of computer systems. It comprises two main components: 1) the ArchGym environment and 2) the ArchGym agent.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Workbook Optimizer evaluates dashboards against best practices and suggests ways to improve performance. Data is from a survey of 3,706 Salesforce customers across the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Australia, India, Singapore, Japan and Brazil conducted between June 8 and June 21, 2022. Boost workbook performance.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Workbook Optimizer evaluates dashboards against best practices and suggests ways to improve performance. Data is from a survey of 3,706 Salesforce customers across the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Australia, India, Singapore, Japan and Brazil conducted between June 8 and June 21, 2022. Boost workbook performance.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The second is to offer chances to win prizes for completing a survey, signing a petition, calling a congressperson, sharing an email or social media post, pinning something to your social media account, or anything else you can creatively dream up. Soon you can offer in-person get-togethers too. Establish clear success metrics.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

We conducted a survey of over 1,100 business leaders across 10 countries in technical and non-technical roles, investigating the presence and depth of five trends that drive a successful Data Culture and help shift the position of organizations to become data-leading. This caused extra work for IT and unreliable results.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Their clients go through several departments on their service journeys — from evaluation to training and job placement — but each department was siloed, making it difficult to view each client’s progress. Through surveys, here is just a sample of what they learned: 20% of their families struggled with food insecurity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. Participant-Centered Program Management.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

It’s not the type of analysis companies usually do before launching a product, says Jac Dinnes, a senior researcher at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Applied Health Research who has evaluated smartphone apps for skin conditions. They focus on the answers the symptom-checkers give, not the way people respond to those answers.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Getting participants to sign up to fundraise for your organization (and providing them with basic details, sample emails, and suggestions about how to raise funds from their family and friends) is just the beginning. Be sure to periodically re-evaluate your software platform to ensure it’s still meeting your needs. Survey responses.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 7, 2023

The Caravan project One of the main challenges in conducting successful ML research and creating advanced tools for flood forecasting is the need for large amounts of data for computationally expensive training and evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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. survey in room: most prevalent is 20 hours/week with other job duties. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector. know your keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. If you create the discipline to collect data weekly, then it won’t be overwhelming. That usually isn’t case. And, the prices is right: free.”.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

A recent Salesforce survey found that more than a quarter of respondents are using AI tools at work, more than half of whom are using AI that is not approved by their organizations, including in the social sector. We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

We conducted a survey of over 1,100 business leaders across 10 countries in technical and non-technical roles, investigating the presence and depth of five trends that drive a successful Data Culture and help shift the position of organizations to become data-leading. This caused extra work for IT and unreliable results.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2016

Is the service you are evaluating paid by a corporation to place their employees on boards? BoardAssist surveys annually to see how our candidates are performing. Or do they provide a short sample of some boards they have helped? Where does their money come from? Does this create the wrong incentives?

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The clients evaluate these suggestions and return measurements. On the algorithmic front, for estimating the entropy of a high-dimensional distribution, we obtained local DP mechanisms (that work even when as little as one bit per sample is available) and efficient shuffle DP mechanisms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

Evaluation. There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan. The book includes an important chapter on evaluating your talent development strategy as well as linking it to performance assessments. Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Agreed upon plan. Is it worth it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

They devised “kid-friendly” survey instruments, including a “Fun Food Bingo” game, to determine if students are eating the vegetables they grow and are learning about nutrition. An intern working on a master’s degree in public health conducted the evaluation, so costs for the study were minimal.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

This consultant can evaluate your nonprofit’s overarching goals and help you define the research objectives that will help you accomplish them. Step 3: Design your market research survey. Once you’ve defined your research philosophy, you can begin actually designing your research survey. Designing Your Survey Method.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. A full reporting on your results costs $79.

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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. Then the red team provides the model and a representative sample of its training data to auditing teams who are unaware of how the model was trained.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I'd like to suggest Innovation Network's State of Evaluation Project and the Urban Institute's Nonprofit Sector in Brief as excellent sources. At GrantStation , we survey nonprofits to help develop new strategies to serve our member organizations. Get the State of Grantseeking Report. Image: GrantStation. spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2015

Take the short survey. And we need your help— Will you take the short survey? In order to continuously develop content that motivates supporters, it’s important for us to benchmark and evaluate current tactics and strategies—where are the opportunities to improve, what’s working and what’s not?

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