Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. Focus the Story.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. Focus the Story.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change.

Network 103

Network Change Technology Social 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. But while these new stories are now visible they are not yet mainstream. .

Story 79

Story Action Model Adopt 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Allison points out the numbers for America's Giving Challenge on Facebook sponsored by the Case Foundation. So I think we need to look at the lifetime value of getting a potential donor to join our Cause on Facebook and engaging and educating them about our work.

Washington 85

Washington Metrics Facebook Donor 85

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

After doing a stint as a Code for America fellow, he helped create the Open Referral Initiative, to make it easier to share data about social services – data at the heart of the referral process. We promised not to criticize anybody’s database publicly, but we did tell them how their database compared to the other ten in aggregate.

Software 118

Software Data Change eBook 118

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Right now we are successfully convincing major educational publishers to build accessibility features into their standard ebooks.

Change 100

Change eBook United States Conservancy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

For US nonprofits, we turn to the the Pew Internet and America Life for studies and audience research about the hyper-connected. In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe.

Policy 103

Policy Social Media International News 103

Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition. They stand out, at least in America, because of their infrequency. conversation that followed. There were two fights, both involving parking spaces.

Participatory 20

Participatory St. Louis Museum Game 20

Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The burden falls to the special education departments within local school districts. Special education administrators are strapped for time and bombarded by anecdotes. There is no useful analogous comparative data for special education. Let's use the power of information technology to fix this problem.

Education 52

Education Service Project Children 52

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. Andrew Cox, “Is Instacart headed to be America’s top grocer?,”

Platform 139

Platform Technology United States New York 139