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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. Data carry enormous potential. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information."

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Thoughts from EMSA 2010

NetWits

The week before last, I was lucky enough to attend the Email Marketing Summit Australia 2010 (EMSA). The majority of information was focused on organisations working for profit, but there were a lot of takeaways that are just as relevant in the Nonprofit world as well. What information is available?

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Network + Self-Organizing + Location + Data Visualization = 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data Visualization: Given the volume of information and our ability to connect with more people, in order to manage our work visualization is now critical. These ideas are going to have an impact on the way nonprofits use the Web in 2010 and into the next couple of years. You can also follow other people's plans.

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Benetech Human Rights Data Analysts Uncover Critical Evidence

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations. HRDAG analysis of formerly hidden data has promoted respect for human rights and raised the cost of crimes against humanity.

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. So rather than using a search engine to find data or content and assembling it, you can have generative AI do some of that assembly work for you.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

sgEngage

And now that the 990s are released as open data by the IRS, it’s more important than ever to rethink the role of the 990 as a communication channel instead of just a compliance requirement. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Because artificial intelligence is so powerful, and we know that it will outstrip the most intelligent human’s capacity to process information, we would be foolhardy not to try to understand the topics that affect us. The answer is a lot, including bots and tech, that stole personal information and led misinformation campaigns.

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