Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. The brainstorming methods remind me of the “creativity” techniques such as Michael Michalko’s “ Cracking Creativity ” but instead of drawing them on paper alone, using sticky notes to make it a collaborate or group process.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews. This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage.

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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

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.

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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 8, 2013

Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. You’ll walk away from this session with a new perspective on conducting research and the right tools to ensure the inclusivity of your research practice moving forward. Paid Social and Search: Worth the Investment for Nonprofits?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

While both approaches have value for specific purposes at particular points in time, numbers and narratives can be more powerfully and seamlessly employed to capture individual nonprofit and sector-wide work and more intentionally shape strategy and collaborations. Click map for interactive version. Where did those grants go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age. Organization.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. According to Double the Donation’s list of prospect research software , this process uses tools like your donor database to identify potential donors who have the financial ability and personal interest to support your nonprofit. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. Why this resource?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. I wrote about an experiment I did last year using this tool. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Google Maps. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. Citizen journalism. Podcasting.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

It examines the tech you use and how effectively you use those tools. These tools are working well for your team and are optimized to manage your team’s current fundraising capacity. In this scenario, you may conduct a nonprofit technology assessment to understand how new outreach tools will fit into your tech stack.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. " Five Tools to Make Social Media Magic. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Quite the opposite.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations. More government grants are looking for collaborations among multiple organizations that are able to address an issue from different angles. Insights on Government Funding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. However, access to the tools isn't enough. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Naples, Florida: Show off Your Tools! Find your local #Tech4Good group.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. Tips and Tools for Technology Planning. We'll also discuss the post-disaster operations analysis and triage processes. Virtual Teams and Online Collaboration.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. I jumped at the chance to participate, as I have a background in humanitarian emergency analysis and am a self-proclaimed geek. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. He gives a great list of what goes into the map. What are visitors doing when they get there?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. I suggest three prompts for mapping out the nature of a question. What is the history in the question?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. tools to adopt. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. tools, you need to change your mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

The openness sparks creative solutions, collaborations, accelerates partnerships, and sharing. According to the NTEN blog, it's a much deeper set of tools than before, and the site provides integration resources for organizations using social media sites like Facebook and YouTube in their strategies. That saves time and money.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. posted by Robert F. Ashcraft, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

We have to make the implicit knowledge of how to do this explicit so that the knowledge can spread more quickly. The tool that we are working on provides this support. In short, the beta tool (described in more detail below) shapes the DNA of the right kind of story. Whose Tool is this and Where does it come from? .

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

At the 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , our annual nonprofit conference, over 7,000 people from across the world came together to learn how to advance their mission within the social sector. Register to Access Session Recordings From the 2021 Collaborative. At Classy, one of our core values is to always be learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. a toolkit, not a bookshelf .

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