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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who owns the information collected?

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Six Tips to Help You Select the Right Learning Management System

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In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. and get informed on just anything. The information available is abundant. And, the first and most critical aspect of selecting a LMS is evaluating your own requirements and objectives.

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Is Web Accessibility a Social Responsibility?

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Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. “Web accessibility” means creating websites that can be fully used by people with disabilities. After all, an accessible site is more user-friendly for everyone who visits the site.

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Global Health in Seattle: The “Proximity Advantage”

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Emily Inlow-Hood of PATH shared her group’s work on building out a strategic Wikipedia presence, and the discussion went on to consider a wide range of presence management topics, from mobile (build applications? or just optimize for the browser?), to Facebook/Twitter (which one is the more intimate medium?)

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Ask them: What type of information do you need to share?

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Digital Marketing Plan For Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide (2017)

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Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. Was the information not appealing? Once the demographic information populates you’ll gain access to audience insights. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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