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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

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. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information. So how do we get from data to information?

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

NTEN

In June, Tides partnered with Rhiza on a data mapping pilot using their Insight software. We awarded a total of $17 million in education grants in 2010. Following the case of education funding in 2010, we started to add state-by-state data about per pupil public school funding, reading proficiency, and high school graduation rates.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. Founded: 2010 Designed with fundraising staff in mind, iDonate’s overall mission is to move overall giving from 2% of disposable income to 4% by 2025. We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. Click To Tweet.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: April 30

NTEN

Back from the NTC hiatus of these weekly round-ups, I figure it's only fitting to start out with the round-up of all the online notes and media the NTEN community generated around and after the 2010 conference. Rock on open data and mapping! Thanks to all those who documented and shared!

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5 More Quick Steps to Better SEO (Part Two) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The Alt tag is a description for an imag.

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The Mobile Web: Consider the User

NTEN

Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). Mobile web usage is relevant and successful when it can deliver the exact information that the mobile user needs or wants. Mobile web pages are effective when they deliver precisely targeted information. Not so with the mobile web.

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Cloud Integration Solutions – What’s the Deal?

Connection Cafe

Long gone are the days of ‘a database’ – we now manage numerous, vast repositories of data that result from recording not only demographic information and financial transactions, but all manner of consumer behavior, psychographic details, preferences (likes, along with dislikes), and social activity.