NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In this resource-strapped environment, it's arguable that not considering open source options seriously when evaluating your software toolbox is a disservice to your organization, board, constituents, and clients. . The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Process Reflection Work Wiki 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Google is very good at parsing content, but variations including number, parts of speech, and alternate spellings help, too. Check with your team’s designated web expert to evaluate your website regarding basic technical standards. Additionally, use pictures and lists to make your content more visually appealing and easier to read.

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Tips Alabama Search Homeless 333

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Alternatively, this could be an open-ended assessment in which the learner is asked to write about their conclusions. What are the different types of online assessment?

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

People can tag any of more than one million restaurants and markets across the United States when they find ocean-friendly seafood. We’ll then evaluate if it’s something we should include in a future release. Users can also add restaurants and retailers that sell sustainable seafood if they don’t find them listed in our database.

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Mobile Integration Strategy Green 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 If you can’t publish a responsible security evaluation, then don’t publish one. I also think that the Joomla and WordPress communities take security seriously. In our estimation, they were all really good.

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Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

Whole Whale

JULY 20, 2023

Unfortunately, all three come with a hefty price tag, starting at $30,000 per year. For organizations with smaller budgets, there are alternative A/B testing platforms to consider. However, there are alternative A/B testing platforms available that offer more affordable pricing options for nonprofits.

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Test Google Tools Analytics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer 95

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

The imaginative context of the workshops allowed us to get past petty sticking points and tackle big questions like how to balance creativity into your work, how to feel good about creating without evaluating the product, and how to deal with the tensions of working in teams. Tags: professional development. We had fun. We got inspired.

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Conference Professional PowerPoint Evaluation 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Forum One

MAY 31, 2022

Automatic tracking of certain events—page scrolls, outbound clicks, file downloads, video engagement, and site search—without additional coding or setup required in Google Tag Manager. ? There are alternatives. Communicate a plan and keep evaluating. Highlights of GA4 include: ? New key metrics focused on customer engagement. ?

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Analytics Google Organization Metrics 46

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

Social Media 67

Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA will be doing post-conference evaluations to find out. Whatever the outcome, I salute museum people actually living up to conference themes and the lip service paid to alternate conference formats. Tags: professional development. But will the conversations improve the overall experience? Are you headed to Houston?

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. Tags: design. Why question? So there's a second path, one that museums like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum follow.

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Issue Design Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

But I’ve argued that for many people, judging, sorting, tagging, and commenting on content are just as valuable—if not more compelling—activities as making the content itself. In the past, I’ve talked about this as an alternate newcomer experience: you want to make a video, I want to put them in a meaningful order.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. What is the cost of alternatives or not investing? Compare costs of alternatives, cost/benefit, and cost of not doing. Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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Measure ROI Technology Metrics 76

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation.

Advice 31

Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When evaluating your nonprofit website’s effectiveness , an important question to ask yourself is whether all possible users can access the content on your site. Some aspects of content flow to examine include: Heading tag order. Each of your pages should have just one H1 tag denoting its title. Text formatting.

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Accessibility Design Websites Practice 64

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The Online Story Development The online story development is the trickiest part to evaluate. For a complete report on this project, please download this PDF.

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Museum Game Evaluation PDF 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

As she moves through the museum, she uses a web-based application to tag her favorite exhibits, or perhaps she texts a rating for each exhibit to SMS short codes posted at the bottom of each label. Tags: exhibition Talking to Strangers design participatory museum. What others should we consider?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. It also would be valuable if the data was supported by high-level pre-project initiation KPIs and post-project KPI performance evaluation data. Tags: Influence Government.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 1, 2007

I have friends who refuse to ask, others who come up with clever alternatives ("What keeps you busy?"), and then the rare people who have some other attribute that trumps that question ("How old is your baby?" "Is I like this analogy of the party conversation as a fresh way to evaluate exhibits. Tags: storytelling design.

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Museum Storytelling Alternative Language 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. They are seen as “add-ons” rather than alternatives, and in many cases are increasingly conforming to K-12 standards to justify their utility as sites for field trips and educational funding.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20