sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

Candid’s mission is to get grantmakers and nonprofits the information you need to do good. While funders may have in-country staff or advisors who can flag potential security risks, grantees are often in the best position to assess risk, and especially the risk to them from information being public. For example, is data encrypted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore how to determine what information to retain and the best way to store it. All existing UA data remains accessible, but organizations will lose access to that information on July 1, 2024. On July 1, 2024, Google will permanently remove access to all Universal Analytics data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result. “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s information about the university itself, admissions, programs, degrees, campus life—and that’s just scratching the surface. Content strategy is an aggregate of a few best practices—equal parts planning, delivery, and consistency. And higher education marketing takes so many forms. requires a solid content strategy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. In fact, there is a huge tendency for employees to get disgruntled and de-motivated by the compensation structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It's not uncommon to see the "official" hashtag included with the promotional information about the event, even events or conferences that are not technology focused. Others are more formal, structured conversations that happen weekly at a particular time. #4change is a regular chat about social media change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Information flows. The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities. Using this information to shape and refine your social media strategy can make it more effective. Sort the information to find influencers and people to get to know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

This collection point may serve as a system of record, a source for analytics strategy, a repository of otherwise irreconcilable data structures, as a historical archive, or innumerable other business functions. Generally, the information is valuable in the aggregate but not at the individual detail level. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

He also make a few other points worth noting: I had the feeling everybody shared an enthusiasm for the potential that development can have, but I also only saw a few clear structured projects. Ethan Zuckermann How to filter the information or voices to a meaningful size to find all that that is important to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

When consider crowdsourcing in the above context as a method for obtaining pertinent information and perspective from relatively large numbers of people, it is useful to differentiate between it and collective intelligence, a related concept. Crowdsourcing – collective wisdom and collective intelligence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. Publish shareable information instead of dictating messages. And that is the crossroads. Get out now.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

The International Aid Transparency Initiative is a new initiative which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information. 2 - More coherent information about aid projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. The value of listening is not in the act of listening in and of itself, but when an organization or individual uses the information to improve programs or marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

But is there a way to make it proactive and more organized rather than reactive with no structure or organization? What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. I'm an information addict. Do you read the summaries?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

[Cross posted from SSIR ] "Green Shoots" for New Philanthropic Forms I’ve been writing about information as the currency of change for a long time. Nowadays, some of the same technological advances that led to scalable efficiencies in transaction processing are beginning to shape the landscape for information products and service providers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Hashtag Stats.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. This means that if a user has an active session on Facebook (meaning they are logged into the browser) and visits your site, the widget will be able to detect their identity and gather highly relevant information about them. Some Awesome APIs and Uses for Them.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Also, foundations could use such fundraising as an information-gathering tool, in order to judge public interest and faith in different approaches. a mechanism for turning private judgments into a collective decision). Foundation application?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Instead of having one source of truth for school and student information, someone on your team will have the responsibility of manually aggregating data from reports that come from disparate systems. This can be incredibly frustrating for families who want one place to find all the information they need from a school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

and messy information I'm aggregating. Probably an important piece to include in any training that one might do to initiate other nonprofits mortals to add their s to the new structure of the web. " on the lower left side.) I haven't needed to drink any pink stuff.

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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. . StoryGarden is a web-based system for gathering and analyzing qualitative information about values and attitudes held by a community of people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

There is a simple leaderboard and each player's cards are aggregated on a personal dashboard. It's a structured set of specific interactions that are guided by clear values like interpersonal learning and seeing multiple perspectives on an idea. machines) for informal learning environments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Others argue that under the Freedom of Information Act, they must release the data.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Most often, organizations develop technology plans when they’re in the market for new solutions, with the plan providing a structured approach to the research and purchasing process. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. Also, keep in mind that Google offers its product for free because it makes money by watching you; by using Analytics, you're agreeing to let Google store your information and use it for aggregate reports.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

But when a museum exhibition makes a weak or partial attempt at aggregation, I start to get confused. We usually think of rules as confining the realm of possibility, but Carson argues that strong structure and adherence to rules enhances guest comfort to "play" within the imagined environment. In my head, I say, “I am in a museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. The Right Fee Structure It’s widely reported that Apple takes a 30% cut of sales in their App Store.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The field is evolving at a rapid pace, creating a lot of opportunity for creativity in structuring the market. This should be evident through consistent reporting, structured platforms and networks, and aggregated data around mapped outcomes. But, impact investing means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So she’s knee deep in and planning, and we’re going to share some more information about that because it’s not too late to check it out even though it’s only a few weeks away. So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. There are some additional ways to sort the information - by popularity and by category. I fondly refer to it as the firehose.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

In the coming weeks, we'll be soliciting suggestions from the community on the content, speakers, participants, structure of the conference. Mark] Drupal has a huge development community, and has many features that we need, e.g., blogs, aggregators, surveys, wiki books. Second, the conference is a fundraiser for TechSoup.

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