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“Survey Says” VS. Research

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by both the contestants and the survey respondents. To create and launch a survey is relatively inexpensive in comparison to a multi-phase research study. The show’s success was no doubt derived from the often outrageous answers. However, don’t let a thin budget detour you from selecting the appropriate tools.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Reviewing outcomes and comparing to past efforts to determine success.

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A Guide to Windows 8 Resources

Tech Soup

Enter TechSoup's Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. Read our comparison of the two operating systems. His Windows 8 portal is full of useful how-tos, reviews, and feature overviews. The Verge's detailed, image-heavy Windows 8 review gives a fair and balanced assessment of Microsoft's latest operating system.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors.

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A Guide to Windows 8 Resources

Tech Soup

Enter TechSoup's Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. Read our comparison of the two operating systems. His Windows 8 portal is full of useful how-tos, reviews, and feature overviews. The Verge's detailed, image-heavy Windows 8 review gives a fair and balanced assessment of Microsoft's latest operating system.

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Online Collaboration: Taking Education to New Heights

Tech Soup

Thanks to GoToMeeting's recording features, these online sessions can also be reviewed and played back later, allowing New Heights to offer suggestions for both teacher and student improvement. New Heights Educational Group was the second-place winner in TechSoup's January 2015 Remote Work Success Stories contest. spanhidden.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. To me, it’s more akin to personnel performance reviews. And that essentially would boil down to a big old pissing contest. (“Yes! And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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