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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit? 

Whole Whale

Look for a dashboard that doesn’t require any technical knowledge to set up and that comes with clear instructions on how to use it. Microsoft Power BI – Wikipedia. Amplitude (company) – Wikipedia. Mixpanel – Wikipedia. To help you decide, here are four things to look for in an analytics dashboard: .

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing.

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Saving the California Condor: A Collective Impact Story

ASU Lodestar Center

Manager of Knowledge Resources. When he passed away in 2009, he was remembered as a leader in the effort who worked to unite differing viewpoints and factions. Stephanie La Loggia is the Manager of Knowledge Resources for the ASU Lodestar Center. January 2, 2009. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. ASU Lodestar Center. It soars.”.