Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year. The New York Times Outs Google+. It’s Mostly for Google. The story maintains that even though Google+ is a distant social media competitor to Facebook and its users are much less active, it is very valuable to Google.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. This information was then picked up by first responders who were able to get help and to where it was needed. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. For others it was not so clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Her team members use both a Google spreadsheet, Google Cal and Jira to manage it all. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I These all go on a google calendar – the theme and title. My answer: Yes!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. And somewhere on the internet this information is quietly collecting. Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Newspapers know how to present information. But what’s the point?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. We will have maps telling the stories of our impact for us (for examples of this already in use, check out google earth’s nonprofit stories).

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

It is being used and analyzed by the media, the private sector, governments, and civil society organizations to inform their decisions. Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist , says: The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to. As Internet and mobile access grows, more data is made open online.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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