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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

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In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.

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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . The potential for an army of bot trolls to disrupt an activism campaign. I pulled together a curated list.ly

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water. The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Ethiopia / $50. Marketing & Communications. 10/24/2016.