Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 25, 2024

To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional “hot” code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non-profiled methods, under a draft JDK enhancement proposal now floating in the OpenJDK community.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

While only some grantmakers ask you to submit a logic model, virtually all expect the narrative of your proposal—the description of how the program works, its purpose, and its results—to include the same information as a logic model would. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A grants specialist will handle all aspects of grant fundraising, focusing on submitting proposals to secure grant money from foundations, government agencies, corporations, and more. They’ll also need strong writing and communication skills to create proposals and interact with grantmakers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many organizations face resistance to change and rigid structures , rooted in a culture of adhering to traditional methods and relying on outdated processes, such as specific research methods, requests for proposals (RFPs), and typicaland at times wastefulprogram design. This rigidity fosters resistance to innovation.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By examining details about these projects, such as the project title and abstract (if available), the award amount, the location of the funded organization, and other relevant metrics, nonprofits can tailor their grant proposals to that foundation. What about data privacy concerns?

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

She also suggests they use metrics to demonstrate the difference you make. Understand the funders priorities and align your proposal accordingly, emphasizing how your technology needs match their strategic goals. Will a CRM system help you track your beneficiaries more effectively?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The European Union is already leading the charge in carbon-friendly AI solutions, proposing comprehensive regulations that would require detailed greenhouse gas reporting for AI systems. By building this analysis into the decision-making process, organizations can make more informed choices about when and how to leverage AI responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 30, 2011

This month, our Chief Apricot goes behind the scenes to share information about our support team, and how we track our support metrics. He also provides more information about our future releases, including screenshots of our proposed event redesign! read more ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Cracks in the foundation A critical examination of the study reveals a significant gap between the research and Meta’s proposed implementation. Meta says it will gradually increase the visibility of the notes as it gains confidence in the system’s effectiveness, but did not provide a specific timeline or metrics for success.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2024

In FY23 they submitted 40 proposals for a total of $2.4M — Need Direction Dear Need Direction, While it’s generally a good idea to look for metrics against which to measure performance, in this case it’s a difficult thing to quantify. This requires tailoring your proposal specifically for each particular funder.

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DataRobot

APRIL 21, 2022

Schwarz et al have a comprehensive discussion on which of these metrics are the best, and I recommend their article on this topic. As a hardware-independent metric, they recommend the amount of floating-point operations (FLOPs) to measure model size. For us, we believe in using efficiency metrics in machine learning software.

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

Grants aren’t always easy to get, but with a well-written proposal, you can blow your competition out of the water. These grants can be difficult to get and require a well-thought-out grant proposal. Letter of inquiry, grant letters, and grant proposals. There are three types of proposals you may face when searching for grants.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019. Last year, Microsoft’s largest office complexes sent 3,189 metric tons of waste to landfills. million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019 , according to a report released in July. People tossed out a record 53.6 People tossed out a record 53.6

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. From the first phase of writing a proposal to actually receiving a check could take six to nine months. Ask yourself if you have the bandwidth to prepare one or more proposals.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 23, 2023

As part of this process, the reviewer inspects the proposed code and asks the author for code changes through comments written in natural language. However, with machine learning (ML), we have an opportunity to automate and streamline the code review process, e.g., by proposing code changes based on a comment’s text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. It’s not possible.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

Note the independence metrics on the side. To measure how many of the results Brave shows you are truly “independent,” the company is also including a “ search independence metric ” which you can pull up anytime via the menu in the top right corner of Brave Search. Image: Brave. Brave Search in the Brave browser.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That’s why we put together a list of the five essential metrics you need to know, as a fundraiser, to achieve higher retention rates. Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. Donor Level Moves.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

As you would expect from the insurrection-friendly Senator, it’s not an incredibly serious proposal, and it’s written so vaguely as to be nearly humorous. And if those metrics dip, there could be fewer upstarts in the market actually working to take on the giants. Food for thought. Market Notes. If growth slows, I bet that changes.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 16, 2021

AI researchers and academics have proposed over 70 metrics that can each define bias by pinpointing how an algorithm treats different groups represented in a dataset differently. Deciding what bias metric is most relevant requires a contextual interpretation of a use case.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

Start with Metrics. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaign. But, it doesn't have to be that way!

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In response, Altman proposes looking into "strange-sounding ideas like giving some 'compute budget' to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI." Altman argued that "metrics we care about" including "health outcomes, economic prosperity" simply "get better on average and over the long-term."

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to a Candid survey , 23% of grantmakers say they dont accept AI-generated grant proposals. How to measure success in equity with AI To ensure AI initiatives advance equity and impact, the nonprofit sector could adopt metrics that capture both quantitative and qualitative outcomes.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The EMD measure, which is a distance-like measure of dissimilarity between two probability distributions originally proposed for computer vision tasks, is well-suited for heatmaps since it takes the underlying metric space into account and considers "neighboring" bins. The average of these metrics is presented below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related topics such as the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget that are currently being debated in Congress. Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Assignment. Qualification/Disqualification.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Probabilistic loss functions In most forecasting applications the end user is interested in popular target metrics like the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), weighted absolute percentage error (WAPE), etc. In such scenarios, the standard approach is to use the same target metric as the loss function while training.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Last year, McGraw-Hill and Cengage terminated a proposed merger that would’ve added some fresh competition to the curriculum world. It said that at least one teacher uses its product in 70% of schools in the United States, a metric that has remained consistent since 2018. The product has resonated with some users.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

The letter’s authors and signatories call on the AI community to reconsider how it evaluates the “goodness” of its work — thinking not just about metrics like accuracy and precision, but about the social affect such technology can have on the world. “If

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Data collection- Any online event allows event marketers and event producers to go above and beyond simple attendance metrics. These metrics can work as lead generation tools or increase sales and marketing efforts post-event. . 4 Ideas for Hybrid Events. 4) Lean Into Gamification Like GPJ Experience Marketing Suggests.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We proposed a theoretical architecture that would “remember events” in the form of sketches stored in an external LSH table with pointers to modules that process such sketches. We have proposed a new constrained optimization algorithm for automating hyperparameter tuning. T5-Large models have <1% nonzero entries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign. Metrics Monday. 2-4 hours per week.

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