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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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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. Let’s not let a little technology problem hold us back from being as ambitiously helpful as we would like to be. The children living here are our exclusive focus. We don’t have to pretend to be perfect.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. And after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans. Think cyborgs. 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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Nonprofit Technology, and more! Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. From communications to fundraising to technology to leadership skills, the conference offers something for everyone. Technology affects nearly every effort to achieve our missions. Technology.

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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. Yeshi is part of the family of technologies we call “bots” that includes robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs and virtual reality. Is it ready to scale?

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