Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

We designed a website using data visualization to communicate the results of LTSS policies in states in a way thats easier to understand and remember. Before the redesign, the results were presented in a text-heavy format. A high number on one metric could mean poor performance. Not sure what data visualization technique to use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. My presentation use s*x metaphors to explain some of the points.

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DataRobot

APRIL 26, 2021

To improve the performance of such demand forecasting models, we can use several modeling techniques. All of these techniques center around product clustering, where product lines or SKUs that are “closer” or more similar to each other are clustered and modeled together. In this blog post, we describe these strategies. Request now.

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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. . Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Sales Ops: Table of Contents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it. Tags: 10ntc metrics. I'm still laughing. Our task was to present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2014

You’ll find lots of tips, examples, and resources that will answer questions like this: What are the tips and techniques for presenting data results to your board or senior management? Or, metrics are gathered to justify a strategy favored by organizational leaders. That’s easier said than done. How to avoid this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Has your nonprofit used infographics as part of its reporting process on results or other uses? ” There’s where I discovered a new passion – data visualization techniques for sense-making. … Read More 3: What’s the point? And What’s Your Points? ” 5: Use Best Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Here's the topline results: There is extensive experimentation with social media in the nonprofit sector, but only half (51%) surveyed are active users. It takes time to get results, like anything else.

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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. Gensler estimates that use of GPS has the power to offset up to 341,000 metric tons of carbon annually.

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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 27, 2015

It goes beyond just analytics tools to exploring tools, techniques, and data for measuring deep civic engagement, open governance, and inclusive decision-making. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Hone in on your true scope of influence. L earn and borrow from others.

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

I have a PhD in epidemiology and this training blended perfectly with the focus on metrics and research in the lean startup approach. Our program used Lean Sigma to figure out the variance in care, we then used design thinking and brain storming techniques in partnership with IDEO to come up with solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Use Time Management Techniques. Good for you! Great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This, along with similar gains in server costs, results in a protocol able to handle larger rounds. We have deployed statistical methods to effectively auto-tune such a time window in an adaptive way, resulting in improved protocol throughput. As a result, the server only sees the noisy sum of the clipped updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

Metric: Content created. Metric: Click thrus. Metric: Dollars and recruitment. I'll share the experiment for my 53rd birthday - to spread happiness or happy birthday and the metric of retweets and clicks. The idea that you track in real time, keep a journal, and reflection on the results to improve what you're doing. .

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs. Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

.” The sense-making part is so important! And, one of the questions that keeps coming up is “How do we get our board or senior staff off their addiction to the wrong metrics, like views?” ” You have to show the connection between the metric and what matters!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Once you have defined your organization’s ladder, then you start to identify key metrics that will tell you whether or not someone has moved up the ladder. We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

It was particularly high this week because I’ve been a/b testing different engagement techniques and some of them seem to be working! AVES is the process of using bogus social media metrics to indicate value — metrics like influencer scores. Are you measuring your edgerank score to improve results on Facebook?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We need to anchor our work in the outcome and end result – connecting to the mission as motivation of why we do what we do. Gift officer managers can: Use some of the same techniques we use with donors to remind gift officers of how their efforts have impacted the lives of those benefiting from the mission. Unclear is unkind.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. In fact, several posts received highest ever in the number of shares such as this one.

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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 There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Most importantly, we’ve seen the results of working without a set schedule in the quality of our work, our productivity, and our health. Forcing someone to work early (or late) doesn’t necessarily lead to better results. I’ve experimented a lot with different techniques to improve the way I work. 4 steps to work-life bliss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

Jeremiah Owyang from The Altimeter Group along with John Lovett and Eric Peterson both of the Web Analytics Demystified firm have published an open research report that advocates for a standardized framework of the following business objectives and use of metrics to measure them. Analytics and Measurement Techniques" (free to download).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. ” Individual Techniques. Within seconds I went to enjoying time off with friends to being on work duty.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

SPINN is doing for coffee what Dyson did for vacuums and what Nest did for homes, rethinking technology and connectivity for better results,” said Kevin Thau, general partner at Spark Capital, in a written statement. De Rode says this results in a cup of coffee tasting how it was intended by the roaster.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This way, youll gather data that allows you to identify the aspects of your strategy that are and arent working to drive results. Your team may find that in order to drive results, you need to work with an outside expert. Getting recipients to engage and take a next step is key to seeing results from direct mail.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

. “I built Eppo to leverage the modern data stack and the latest in causal inference literature, allowing companies to tie product team efforts to business metrics like revenue, with boosted statistical power.” ” Sharma concedes that the app experimentation space is becoming congested, if not saturated, with competitors.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last 10 years, AI and ML models have become bigger and more sophisticated — they’re deeper, more complex, with more parameters, and trained on much more data, resulting in some of the most transformative outcomes in the history of machine learning.

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