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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

In addition, such data sets frequently aggregate more than 50 diverse AANHPI ethnic subgroups under the monolithic label of “Asian Americans.” For example, aggregated data from the U.S. This practice makes it harder, if not impossible, for us to adequately advocate for diverse communities and demonstrate their unique needs.

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Lists As Part of Your Content Strategy: A Short List of Tips and Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Andrew Watt. And, lists are easy to create. X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.”

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Examples from Haiti. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Take Crowdtangle as an example. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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Guest Post on Care2 Frogloop: Designing Campaigns for Impact

Amy Sample Ward

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. The next example, is 350.org Photo credit: Flickr leehaywood.

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What Does the Data Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. What Does the Data Say? Tweets Into Action on Prezi. What Does the Data Say? Guest Post by George Weiner, DoSomething.Org.

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