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Becoming a Data-Driven Association

Nucleus

of firms report that the pace of investment in these projects is accelerating. With Nucleus, data is pulled in near real-time from all your critical systems and aggregated in a modern data lake – this comprehensive and always-current data can then be used to provide insights throughout the organization. in 2012 to 65.0%

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I heard about tools for building campaigns and aggregating citizen science data I wouldn’t have discovered at an ocean-themed event because they’re not being applied to coastal problems just yet. That’s how I ended up at PdF. And because of that, I learned about communities crowdfunding their parks and recycling programs. But they could be.

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Building Your Grantseeking Program: Setting Measurable Objectives

Tech Soup

Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. Most organizational leaders ask themselves these questions when projecting grant support: Who is most likely to fund my organization?

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Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Foundation Center hosts one of the well-known philanthropy transparency projects called Glass Pockets. (I’ve found the site invaluable because it aggregates information about foundations, including social media efforts, and it makes it very efficient to search for examples for trainings and presentations ).

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Even More Benefits to Tracking Outcomes

Connection Cafe

By tracking outcomes and indicators using an automated process and aggregating the data in one place, organizations are able to spend less time on ad-hoc data collection and analysis and more time on important decisions that drive operational effectiveness. Philanthropists are looking for effective stewards of their social investment.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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