Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

This system was extremely effective at communicating specific needs in a timely way that required very little additional infrastructure. However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns. Kristian Lum has analyzed data from the same sources that the JRC team used.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Today, with time and experience behind us, digital transformation in 2022 means deep strategy and prioritization. There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

From that perspective, you can stress streamlined workflows and process automation, because time is a cost to your return. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. Then map out your technology and data ecosystem so you know what you use and how it connects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2010

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Tags: maps. Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. When people think about data, the concept of data visualization (aka.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Making the switch is vital — if you’re still using the old version, your data is no longer being tracked. You’ll be pulling in rich data in no time! This granular-level data uncovers the precise path a donor took on your website that led to a donation. This topic can feel too technical and overwhelming, but not to worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. These are a great set of questions to ask as you look over your data. The steps are: Collect your data. Map the data.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

Our personal and professional personas have started blurring from the first time someone Tweeted and logged into LinkedIn. This can be used to quickly aggregate relevant news in the sector and show a summary to the CEO for quick reactions. Google Sheets or AirTable can be used to map out content and scheduling.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If no one on your team combines the skills of a hand-holder, diplomate, ambassador, influencer, and adept translator of member-speak, it may be time to consider hiring a chief experience officer. The ability to accurately develop personas and create their journey maps. Isn’t that a CMO’s job? Well, yes, it could be.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Pledges, which are distinct from grants, are commitments to dedicate a particular amount of funding over time to yet unspecified recipients. This data is available on our racial equity map.[ Corporate funders have varied reporting requirements, which further restricts the ability to timely and accurately track progress.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? A Contest Built on City Data. It all came together when TechSoup Europe began talking to the city of Warsaw about opening up city data to citizens. aggregates and filters Warsaw cultural events. Apps4Warsaw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I am in Brasil to keynote the Social Good Brasil Conference (had to vote early), but I can still watch democracy unfold in real-time through my friends updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting. Greater transparency and more accurate reporting.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

Alexis: The state of Hawaii mapped its infrastructure, with overlays of potential climate impacts and considerations of vulnerable populations, allowing them to run scenarios and test hypotheses for different preparedness measures. Externally, what is exacerbating “time poverty” among users?

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Start with data. Data is one of the easiest things we can share. We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. The problem is that the data in these formats is usually still locked away – inside a PDF, wrapped in text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . After all, data is only as good as it is actionable! After all, data is only as good as it is actionable!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers, share best practices at no charge , and deepened our learning based on a monthly theme. This month’s theme: Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits. Time Management for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals: What’s Your Best Tip? What does that mean?

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Driven by the learner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. Whatever the situation, automated email marketing and SMS texting campaigns can be set up to deliver timely messages to donors and supporters. If you spread yourself too thin, you might fail to make waves.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases).

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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. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

For many organizations with a small number of staff, it’s a luxury to have time to sit, talk, and think aloud together. Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. Key Questions: The session was designed to be a conversation – with an avid note taker (me).

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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. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. How can we do that? Fundraising.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web. Crisis data = people . In the midst of the viral Text HAITI to 90999 message, we saw the emergence of what we're calling emergency social data, or #crisisdata. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

There are several issues our nonprofit partners have considered in designing their feedback loops, including the timing and frequency of feedback collection. These issues have the potential to affect the representativeness of data collected—which is paramount for ensuring meaningful feedback. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Nonprofits often deal with an overwhelming amount of data. We can utilize APIs to transfer data from one system to another and even synchronize data sets in order to end up with the cleanest data possible. Want to be able to identify an individual’s political representatives on the fly, based on the data you have?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Let’s explore key data visualization do’s and don’ts to transform your communication and align your team.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

a day (2005 World Bank data ) While there is progress on this compared to previous decades, the numbers are still vast, and the current economic crisis will exacerbate this poverty. These development organizations each publish their information, assessments and data on their own web sites. Project #1 Global Development Commons.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

As data-loving professionals, our team gets many questions about what an engagement score is, how to assign members points and how to use the data. When you have a score for an individual member or a group of members, you can better engage them by reaching them with the right messaging at the right time. Use data to calculate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Organizations use both hard data points and qualitative data to listen and learn. where the organization uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative data points to improve their social media strategy. Laura's challenge is to get the right metrics to the right people on staff at the right time to reap insights.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

Prospect researchers are up to their ears in data—and usually with requests. Responding to individual needs probably occupies most of your day but reacting to requests is not the best way to spend your time. Sometimes you just don’t have access to the right data, and hey, you’re only human. Cross-check for accuracy.

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