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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. There’s also a Twitter chat on April 18th at 3 pm EST if you want to talk about social media measurement. The point is that there is sometimes confusion between activities and results.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC, had a lot to offer for the nonprofits in attendance, and TechSoup was no exception. " and includes modeling statistical analysis. This is just a sample of the secrets MacLaughlin revealed during his NTC session. More from NTC. More Secrets.

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2011 NTC Preview: A Scientist in Your Communications Department: Segmenting Messages, Customizing Content and Delivering Results

NTEN

The language that you use can point to this knowledge: “Our renowned Foundation researcher, Dr. Smith, is signing her latest book at the Borders right in your backyard.” Statistical analysis can be used at this stage to help determine if there are demographics or specific actions that are strong predictors of future behavior (e.g.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes? Lots of prizes.

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