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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. I’m especially looking forward to learning from these sessions by colleagues: April 11, 2011 – 10:30 – Noon. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00. April 12 at 8:30-10.

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Online Giving Potential: How to Bounce Back From Months of Decreased Fundraising

NetWits

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Can you adopt similar techniques that can bolster your company’s best features? 2011 Online Giving Report.

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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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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. We can no longer afford to get distracted by the volume of information flying past us. Instead, content curation helps us keep focused. Is it accurate?

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Over the past couple of years, they have been dabbling, and then wading, in data visualization techniques. Many people in their audience will absorb knowledge better from informative (and shiny!) And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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