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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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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Transparency and Fundraising: Is There a Connection?

NTEN

Some have embraced the new standards, making honest efforts at providing donors -- governmental, institutional, and individual -- with real evidence of impact and with accurate, straightforward disclosure regarding their management, decision making and internal policies. August 2010. [2] New York Post.

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Research Friday: What Affects Hispanic Volunteering - Comparing Three Surveys in the United States

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. are foreign-born immigrants, and 70% are concentrated in seven states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Arizona, and New Jersey.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The World Without the Newspaper

See3

In my hometown newspaper, The Baltimore Sun , budget cuts mean that serious news coverage declines, foreign bureaus close and a paper that was once a well-respected part of a thinking man’s daily diet is now just a mere shadow of itself. and things like city permit information — who is building where, etc.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Contest: User Generated Crap, er… Content

See3

The line between “consumers of information&# and “publishers of information&# continue to blur. Instead, send me information on things I am interested in and allow my community to tell me about the products and causes they care about while I tell them about my own interests.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So thinking about this information, what do you as a nonprofit need to do in order to cultivate your asset-holding donors? So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests.

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