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Evaluating social innovation - the what and the when

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 12th April 2013

People argue a lot about evaluation and ‘social impact analysis’ (see, they even argue about what it should be called). They especially love to argue about the ‘best’ way to do it. Like whether you should or shouldn’t have an external evaluator, or whether you should or shouldn’t do a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Frankly, it can get a bit confusing – so how do you know the best way to ‘do’ an evaluation? Especially if you're working in social innovation. The answer is that there is no ‘best’ way. more >

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Mappa Mundi

By: ed.anderton
On: 7th March 2013

Using data to create maps of various kinds is an intriguing and entertaining process: but is it useful? Could such maps make us unjustifiably confident that we know where we are, and where we should be going?

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The iceberg has melted, long live the evaluation duck

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 21st February 2013

Getting your head around evaluation and social impact assessment (evaluation’s sexy stage name) can be a complicated process. more >

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Where it counts

By: ed.anderton
On: 29th January 2013

Like all social investors, Nominet Trust wants to find satisfying and consistent ways to describe the value created through the funds we distribute. Data - open, big and otherwise - is a central component in this process, but how do we determine what, amongst the expanding vastness of the counted and the countable, really counts?

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Technology in Education – it’s the use that matters

By: Simon Knight
On: 21st December 2012

It’s been a year since I started blogging here at Nominet Trust, exploring the research around new technologies particularly in education. There probably hasn’t been a more exciting time in the Nominet Trust year for me as they’ve just announced a new fund with the Education Endowment Foundation – it’ll be great to see what’s funded and what outcomes they achieve. I’m going to use this final blog of the year I’ll sum up what I’ve covered so far and how it’s all related.

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Knowledge Mapping for the third sector

By: Simon Knight
On: 5th December 2012

Mapping what we search for

In my last post, I said I’d talk a bit more about knowledge mapping. I’m particularly interested in this area because while information retrieval through search engines is rather well supported for individuals engaging in fairly short factual retrieval, longer and collaborative tasks have relatively less tools for their facilitation. So this is an interesting area from an information management perspective in general.

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