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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. Here it is: Our 2018 eLearning predictions set in terms of Gartner’s hype cycle. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. Innovation Trigger.

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Artificial Intelligence for Good: A Few Good Articles To Read #AI4Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” This is a good analysis of the evolution of Tech for Good, Cloud for Good, Data for Good, and the latest iteration: AI For Good. What Is AI for Good?

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Google + Nonprofit Brand Pages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If I was going to create a google + brand page for a nonprofit, I would probably focus on using to cultivate a small sub-set of my community that I knew was already using Google + – perhaps use it as a focus group to learn and figure out what might make sense. It can also distract you from your priority to do list.

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game. Here’s a good analysis by Ralph Koster that Robert Scoble point out. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, it is important to have a framework like Gartner Technology Hype Cycle to think it through. There are three choices: Early Move: Willing to combine risk taking with an understanding that risky investments don’t always pay off. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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3 Major Higher Ed Takeaways from bbcon 2020 Virtual

Connection Cafe

Ensuring fundraising success is more important than ever and our team at Blackbaud is monitoring the latest trends coming out of our Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management community to help our customers stay relevant and innovative. . Conduct an impact analysis and use it! So how do we combat this?

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

Through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation he set up with his wife, he plans to use the money to ambitiously solve some of America’s biggest problems like obesity and crime through data analysis and science, with an unsentimental focus on results. ?He Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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