Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: State Legislative Preview for Nonprofit Organizations. Boston, Massachusetts: Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Nonprofit Effectiveness. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Wednesday, January 4, 2017. Friday, January 6, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. What was your judging process?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

Some of them may not apply to your organization, but it’s a good place to begin evaluating how robust your policy is. The CCPA and bills in states like Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington give residents the right to request erasure of their data held by organizations.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2018

When I was growing up in northern Minnesota, I didn’t see examples of organizational efficiency models, and I had never heard of lean concepts. Once you’ve identified the client, you can then evaluate each step in the process to determine whether it adds value. Efficiency Drives New Ways of Thinking. I wasn’t born an efficiency expert.

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Process Minnesota Environment Nonprofit 27

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

As noted in trend #1 above, international, U.S. federal, and state agencies have begun regulating employers’ use of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to receive monthly regulatory updates and regularly review your policies, procedures, and training to ensure they reflect the latest requirements.

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Trend Law Minnesota Captivate 67

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Duluth, MN / $299. Join the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for our 2016 Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Brooklyn Center, MN / Not available. Apr 16 - 23.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Paul, Minnesota, Salem, Cincy, Toronto, Iona, Santa Cruz, Philly, Glasgow, Ottawa, London, Jersey, Miami, Tacoma, Phoenix, NYC, Orca, LA, Manchester, Lancaster, Worcester, and, I'm a killer. I've been everywhere, man. Many a collection rare, man. Programs and interactives to spare, man. Of museums, I've a-had my share, man.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

When we did the final evaluation for the project, one comment from the teens really surprised us: they complained that it felt like we were "hiding" the goals of the project from them in the first of three weeks. Cloudy criteria make for cloudy evaluations. You can always add more criteria if the ones in need cannot be found.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Minnesota Council for Nonprofits annual conference; and after my presentation, I spent a couple hours speaking with folks from various nonprofits, vendors and service organizations. I want to start, first, with a story…. Who’s the community? But think about it in more detail.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Minneapolis, MN / Less than $200. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Minneapolis, MN / Price TBA. Join the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits as we challenge presenters and attendees to engage one another across difference. Donor Relations. Mar 9 - 11.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

21st Century Skills In the final minutes of the conference, Marsha Semmel (IMLS) hosted a session with myself, Julie Johnson (Science Museum of Minnesota) and Bronwyn Bevan (Exploratorium) to share the IMLS report on 21st Century Skills. Tags: evaluation children's museums exhibition design professional development.

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Reflection Research Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Liza Pryor, from the Science Museum of Minnesota, offers a list of arguments why museums should be engaging with social technologies—worth co-opting for any tough chats with marketing or executives about the value of blogging, public comment-sharing, and the like. high quality visitor content) related to others (e.g.

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Voice Case Study Museum Analysis 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE. Paul has suggested that this metric—pointing—may be a valuable evaluation measure of a particular kind of engagement. When he speaks about these photos, Paul spends little time on the content of the exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. This is a question I'm really interested in. Neither Click!

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

To write the book, Light selected and studied 26 innovative non-profits and government agencies across Minnesota during the mid-90s. Of the 26, two are museumish: the Minnesota Zoo and the Walker Art Center, and three are arts organizations: Artspace, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. In the social period, we began exploring the network – mapping it, evaluating it, testing it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. Tags: evaluation marketing. How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I think that writing a blog is an art more than a science and there is something unappealing to me about looking at numbers of posts and numbers of words to evaluate the quality of my blog posts and ultimate success of my blog. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? Design for participation in museums still struggles on the evaluative side--we don't have well-documented ways to measure how many people connect with a stranger or learn something from another visitor.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

University of Minnesota, 2007]. Open work environments, when adopted, can quicken the development of democratic values in the workplace: transparency, dialogue and listening, fairness and dignity, purpose and vision, accountability, collective goals, choice, integrity, reflection and evaluation, and decentralization of power.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The Benetech team is very excited about helping with this important application: we’ve already built an initial prototype of the app for Kipp and his partners to evaluate. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Well, we knew we wanted to do an exhibit to mark the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary of the birth of the state of Minnesota).

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