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How a Data-Driven Approach Supports Community Engagement

Saleforce Nonprofit

Being able to report on this data in an easy-to-read format was very important, as was having robust induction and training resources for the volunteers who run the pantries. Tracking Operations With Real Time Data. The post How a Data-Driven Approach Supports Community Engagement appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Locate your data. Check in with all staff members at your organization to make sure you know where all data resides. Ask if they’re capturing and maintaining data in places such as spreadsheets or email inboxes to make sure you migrate all necessary information into your new software system. Do a data clean-up.

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

Access your data. Of course, analyzing your fundraising campaigns starts with accessing data from your online fundraising software. The way you set up your dashboards and reports will depend on multiple factors, including your data analysis goals and what data you need to inform your analysis. Evaluate post-campaign data.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. Defeated in fact.

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Data Portability update

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So first, what is data portability? Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Tim O’Reilly has a bang-on post about the fact that OpenSocial does not mean that users can have data portability. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Install it on your own server, control your own data. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? I use it to create sitemaps, mostly, but it’s also great for brainstorming. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. Stay tuned. It’s kinda cool.

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