Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Make a list of the lead applications your employees use in the field. Don’t forget corporate email, maps and directions, and messaging. Then check with the software vendors to get a range for data usages with their specific applications and multiply by the number of mobile users you have.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 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! These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

‘The cloud’, when discussed in terms of computer systems and resources, is a symbolic expression that refers to networked computer hardware, data storage, data access, business and technical applications, and computing power that are not managed directly by end-users. In truth, importing data is only one part of a true integration solution.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive. Why use mind maps in your nonprofit practice? Mind maps can help you: Plan nonprofit projects.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Cloud storage: Office applications integrate with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint, so you can access your files across devices. Real-time typing in Word: You can see where others are working and what they are typing as they type it in the Word desktop application. What's New in Office for Windows.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

No clunky calendar sync application. The built-in Maps application is fantastic. I’m getting re-used to the concept of a file browser on a phone again. You can jailbreak an iPhone to allow more applications/tweaks. You can root an Android phone to allow more applications/tweaks. Most don’t.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. Use surveys and donor journey mapping to understand how people engage initially and over time. Blend time-tested principles with bold new applications.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Limitations I’ve found, especially as compared to the more expensive/complicated ClickTools: No conditional mapping. Once added to the page layout via a custom s-control, you get a view into your files exactly as they are on Box.net (sorry, had to black out file names). Very easy to configure for each object.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

Box is a cloud-based online storage service that provides charities and libraries with online file-sharing and storage with robust content management tools. What I Learned About Crime by Mapping It with Tableau. These backup and recovery applications ensure mission-critical data recovery for both physical and virtual environments.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

The exception to this rule in the nonprofit space tends to be mobile tools for canvassers, volunteers, or major gift officers, who typically use specialized apps or web applications (e.g. Dropbox - managing files across devices, access to documents when on the road, or quickly sharing files with others. Easy to use, 2.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Lexus: Creating an API (Application Programming Interface).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

TaxCaster by TurboTax/Intuit (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) calculates an estimate for your tax returns before you even file. If you have to travel a lot for your organization, this app, which uses your phone's GPS to log your trip on a map display, is a must-have. This free app uses the same tax calculator as TurboTax.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The more foundations deploy new and different software applications to support different aspects of foundation operations, the greater is the need for data integration to prevent repositories of data from residing in various siloes across the organization – which causes stakeholder information to be not current, unclean, or incomplete.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With interactive maps, private meeting scheduling, and a personalized agenda, attendees have everything they need to get more from the event. Plus, tag expenses for fundraising, programming, and administration in order to make filing your Form 990 at tax time that much easier. Compliant reporting. Everyone wins!

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

CRM and Data Management: Our services include migrating data and files across your solutions and customizing your CRM to meet your exact needs. Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals. Setting short- and long-term goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. Stop filing and attaching and saving and start sharing. Quite the opposite. Trust more.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. application. Accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

tools and business applications for it. audio and video files used for press stories, appeals, celebrity support (and branching out into podcastingetc) [link] [link] Animal Aid???shock However, I'm willing to bet that many of the same people and their kids use web 2.0 apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0.

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Forum One

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which ones are essential to the success of your website goals? How are the various components connected, and not connected, to your website?

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

While data health at the most basic level is understood by most foundation professionals – e.g., donors’ and grant applicants’ contact information have to be free of errors, amounts and dates have to be accurate – there’s more to data health than error remediation. What is data health? scarlet oneill rather than Scarlet O’Neill).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Segment your supporters within NeonCRM to make your fundraising appeals and marketing initiatives more relatable and applicable to each group. Heat mapping. A Google Maps integration allows your organization to develop heat maps based on congregations of supporters in local areas so you know where to geographically reach them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How do I navigate and write grant applications? How do I navigate and write grant applications? And the “How do I navigate and write grant applications?” So what are some of the main questions I hear from folks like you? They want to know, “How do I know what to apply for? You can select as many as you want.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there. Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. File Manager: Box.net.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Key points: The 2013 version allows you to easily create professional-looking outreach materials using ready-made templates within the application (even more templates are available on the Internet). Check out our Microsoft Publisher: Reach Out to Donors piece for step-by-step instructions on how to get going quickly with the application.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Begin by mapping out your content to support your donor’s journey. An unscheduled call will place the candidate/vendor under pressure to prove their application of knowledge. While you’re waiting, I strongly recommend setting up your sitemap.xml file in Google Search Console. Robot.txt Files. Don’t freak out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

million registered tax-exempt organizations file a version of the “Form 990” with the IRS and state tax authorities. Just as most people have gotten accustomed to sharing large files via a service like Drop Box, it would be simple for the IRS to publish the returns online for anyone to download in bulk for free.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 9, 2009

For example, there were times that I would be 3/4 of the way through carefully mapping 50 fields for an import and then realize that I missed something in the original Excel file. Accessing Salesforce from an external application is not an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties.

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