Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

." Pew Research raw survey data now available – Looking for some data to help tell your organization's story? "The "The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number of surveys about online and American culture, but they usually only shared aggregated results, pre-made charts and graphs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. You pay per export and right now you can pay with a Tweet.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a grantmaker in a digital world, gathering data seems to be the easy part. You have data on your grantees flowing into your grant management system (GMS) through applications and their updates. Your own historical data on grants awarded accumulates with every grant cycle. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The top 5 drivers to ensure your organization has the financial information to be responsive. Aggregate data into digestible graphs to communicate mission impact. Unit of service should include demographic data – first tier, second tier and third tier service recipients, as well as, the cost and benefit of services.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. But let's start with a few simple principles to jumpstart how your organization can improve its use of data online.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. Managers and the board were so overwhelmed by the huge amount of information that their eyes tended to glaze over when the data was presented. This simple change to how the information was presented had a huge impact.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

In a previous blog post written by Kestryl Lowrey (Managing Director, Technology Services) and Stephen Earheart (Director, Campaign Services ), Cloud for Good explored the role of data warehouses in nonprofit technology strategies. Higher Education Data Warehousing Use Cases. Data Warehousing for Recruitment & Admissions.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

It's a great gathering of policy wonks, transparency advocates, IT geeks in from in and out of government - all excited and busy with shaping a whole new day in how government information will be made more accessible, valuable and transparent. See the chart of sessions.

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DC Aggregator Technorati Unconference 52

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Too often, health data is locked in massive datasets that are opaque to all but epidemiologists and statisticians.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

What data matters most? You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? I like how you are weaving together both number data and qualitative data and how you plan to collect stories. Maybe another way to think about it is measurement as data collection, but focused data collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Often, there is too much data collected and not enough sense-making of it. Many organizations think more data is better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

"If 2013 was the year of the infographic, I think 2014 will be the year of more dynamic data. Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. Yeshimabeit Milner and Amy Traub, Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism (New York and Washington, DC: Data for Black Lives and New York: Demos, 2021). Airbnb has an app for that.

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