Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! You don’t just have to do market research with Qriously. It’s incredible! Campaigning.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Understanding the goals and objectives, and the potential data that could serve these goals, Forum One helped develop a system to aggregate payroll and advancement data from employers, then map it to internal data attached to members who had matriculated through the professional development program.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

To follow these steps, many researchers and policy analysts have had to rely on outdated approaches, such as spreadsheets, shared drives, and internal databases of varying sophistication. When considering how to approach data management, a modern data platform, or “stack”, needs to do four things really well: Get the data. Store the data.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See the participants map of the world. Watch video of actual conference sessions. Technorati Tag: GDNET09.

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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. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

" Apps4Warsaw also teamed up with Orange Labs, the research and development arm of multinational telecommunications giant Orange , to build a platform and publish the 50 datasets. aggregates and filters Warsaw cultural events. The platform was installed on the Warsaw City Council servers. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that uses data to show money's influence on politics. The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

Prospect researchers are up to their ears in data—and usually with requests. To have the biggest impact on your organization, you’ve got to turn the tables and start proactively researching so you can identify the strongest prospects. You’ve done the research on your prospect and you know the bigger picture. Sense opportunity.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. And for good reason.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information. Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Participants included representatives from most of the major local organizations focused on global health data, biomed and clinical research, and healthcare delivery, some important funders, and a handful of consultants focusing on GIS, social media and public policy data--all in all a great mix of perspectives. Health Alliance International.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Just get started!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We did some research around this issue and published a white paper detailing the case for integrating time-honored emergency response expertise with real-time social input. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Since we are a culture of acronyms, I fondly call it the “PREP” method: Plan – Research – Execute – Proact. (I With this information, you can make decisions on how to consolidate information in other locations, reorganize your site map, or identify links to external sites that may be drawing users away from your site.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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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. . It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Describe based on secondary research, direct observation, or primary research.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By using shaded maps, clear data points, and red/yellow/green indicators, users can easily identify areas in need of improvement. AARP’s Livability Index targets a broad set of audiences including local residents, community advocates, researchers, and local policymakers. The Livability Index bridges these gaps in several ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Recently, there's been some research of adoption of these tools in the corporate sector ( here and here ) And, if you're looking for a hands-on activity to introduce blogging to staff members, check this out. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here. Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Gonna put them here for now and then aggregate and organize the list back over in the wiki we're using to plan our presentation after I finish the slide. Action Medical Aid Action Medical Research we had great success with a blog by Martin Holdcroft, the father of two very premature boys. MUST WORK ON PRESENTATION SLIDES.

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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 technology vendors. Step 6: Research technology vendors. Contingency plan for unexpected technical emergencies or failures.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? He then set out aggregating and displaying this data in a unique fashion, "eschewing details in favor of high-level overviews and visualizations."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The request went like this: I need an Android application for collecting certain important information, as text/surveys/videos/pictures, from staff/contractors/whistleblowers/clients/the public that I can upload to a server so we can respond/analyze/put on a map/put into a progress report.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Young Einstein. How long are they staying on your site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. To view the full text of the report, click here. When the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

As a content creator, one thing to keep in mind, that if you can create long-form by aggregating micro content or take the Lizzy Borden approach and chop up an existing long form content piece – either way if you create in this modular way you have both forms to publish.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Keisha Taylor is TechSoup Global's senior manager for business planning and research for our Global Data Services work. Data Mapping and Visualization. MicroMappers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

In others, someone is already aggregating it. Instead, we found the Community Assessment Project --an amazing aggregation of data from all over our County, managed by a wide range of stakeholders from health and human services. In some communities, it exists in different silos. We thought about collecting it ourselves (stupid idea).

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