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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Practitioners are tasked with understanding how their assumptions or mindsets about objectivity, rigor and evidence; resources; roles; definitions, perceptions, and decisions; relationships; and productivity and accountability all may bias their MEL approaches. Identify and challenge usual power relationships.

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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

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Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 1) Everybody is People.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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And part relationship. . The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists. Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language. And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight. More about that later.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. If it someone you don't have a relationship with, maybe this is a good time to do that. Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. What is the call to action?

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Shortly after career day he contacted Viji Dilip, head of Bookshare International, to see about an internship.