sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

It was also the year that most companies and CEOs reaffirmed their commitment to the importance of environmental, social, and governance impact work. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work. The idea of measuring our work and impact is certainly not new.

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data. Establish Data Governance Policies: Put a data source inventory in place if you don’t have one. This will help reduce confusion and create a common business language. These owners should budget time to manage your data and set completeness thresholds.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are also multiple bills moving through legislature in no less than 25 other states and the federal government ( COPRA ) that could become law in 2020. If you have no privacy policy language, or language doesn’t include any of the Google Analytics, Facebook, HubSpot or other tracking software being used.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Potentially anti-government, anti-bank, anti-censorship & anti-centralized authority .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

It’s a nonprofit or government agency that makes accessible copies of Works, and limits distribution of those copies to people with bona fide disabilities, the “Beneficiary Persons,” defined in the next article. Technological Protection Measures. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Shakespearean answer : If the topic of Google Analytics and all things web tracking feels like a foreign language and you’re more of a theatre person here is a quick Shakespearean summary of what is going on. This is a more accurate measure than UA which was reliant on another page load or a custom event being triggered.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2015 all the United Nations member states adopted the impact measurement framework which consists of 17 broad goals, 169 targets and, currently, 232 indicators. Each goal has many indicators and even more trackable measures which means your programs would become very unfocused and your resources spread too thin. Town halls.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You don’t qualify for the Google Ad Grant if you are a: Hospital or healthcare organization (nonprofits working in the healthcare space, such as lung cancer research or aphasia awareness , still qualify) Government entity or organization School, academic institution, or university (check out Google for Education for its schools program).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages. Me delivering Benetech''s closing statement to the conference.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Once you have a clear mission, set both short-term and long-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). Use language and tone that reflect their preferences and communication style. This purpose should be the core of your mission statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. The tool was Ushahidi. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

The impact of new technologies is invariably misjudged because we measure the future with yardsticks from the past.” - Stephen Baker, a technology journalist in a recent NY Times Blog. This is an important step in developing a new language and dialogue that shifts away from the “philanthropic-nonprofit” paradigm (p.2).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

We're reflecting a larger trend in business, government, and IT to pay more attention to the plumes of information our websites, databases, PCs, and mobile devices are generating. That's why Elizabeth says nonprofits shouldn't initially focus on measuring impact. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

But what was a grantmaker who works on ocean conservation doing at a conference of software engineers and open government advocates? Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. Embracing measurement & uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Governance and managing across difference in power and capacity in network participants / members. Measuring the strength of our networks, how they change over time, what theory of change to develop, what longer term outcomes might be achieved through networks, etc. How to build network weaving capacity? What are the different models?

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. All data depend on measurement, even data as common and seemingly objective as the weather. But what if I tell her in a language she doesn't understand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. Grassroots organizing. Poverty Reduction. Is your nonprofit experimenting with or thinking about using chat bots?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

I had the opportunity to participate on the panel, “Monitoring & Impact Measurement. Our panel discussion highlighted the importance of strong cross-sector partnerships, impact measurement and outcomes reporting in developing a robust grantmaking strategy for the SDGs. Measuring and Reporting on Outcomes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. Government delegation, as a next step possibility. The Proposals A. law today. •

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

That's why government, the private sector, and nonprofits have all been increasingly adopting telework. How to Manage Remote Workers: Measuring Results. The University of Wisconsin also has some useful language in its telecommuting policy and guidelines (PDF). Benefits of Telework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We’ve published those results and our partner network has translated the executive summary into a wide variety of languages. And that means advocacy and access can happen in ways similar to open government efforts. So we asked and more than 10,500 organizations from 88 countries and they answered. I’ve been in on all the phone calls.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? We need more evaluation and measurement as this is vital to moving a cause forward and the only way to improve.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. This statement should use precise language but non-finite verbs. Measurable: Quantifiable. government agency established to make mental health and substance abuse help and resources more readily available.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 4, 2021

Your organization is not a school, college, hospital, or government agency. The success of your Google Ad Grant can be measured by whether you meet these goals. Using high-quality content, concise language, and effective Calls To Action, visitors will be more inclined to meet your desired goals.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

While you are working on your logistics and the governance, don’t forget to take some time to develop an initial nonprofit marketing plan. Set several tangible, measurable goals to give you something to strive for. But you don’t want to toil away in anonymity. What will make this a success? Be specific.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. We''re working on the internal and external language, always trying to be as clear and concrete as possible. Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

How to measure and track digital marketing success. For example, Place use to be limited to a physical storefront and the value of its location measured in foot traffic. Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. How Is Digital Marketing Success Measured?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

The two key ingredients for healthy data, though, are good insight analysts and good data governance. "What gets measured gets treasured," he says. Language has power, so wield it carefully. This is what MacLaughlin calls the nonprofit data paradox: The more you have of something valuable, the less valuable it becomes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. It also does translations of foreign language signs and things you’re looking at. That’s one reason I went to the Wearables DevCon Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Government and feedback loops - how can they take the field's learnings and incorporate in theirs? Measurement is the major theme as the sector grows up. There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. She was warning against shiny object syndrome. And if the correction creates new problems.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. How do you measure the change? Scaling is an important point.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Measurable: Set goals that you can quantify or easily measure so you can track your progress toward your goal. With most fundraisers, you’ll want to measure the total amount of money you raised (your gross) and the amount you cleared after expenses (your net). Check with your state or national government to find out.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. People will manage, monitor, and measure their philanthropic activity primarily on a mobile device. Get your data governance practices together – now. Choose wisely.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S. "The emergence of big data to measure social impact. My Prediction: The U.S.

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