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The Ice Bucket Challenge Epilogue: Data

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Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? ” And in a related article, the Chronicle discussed the challenge faced by the ALS Association in dealing with 2.4 Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September. million new donors.

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Fundraising data analytics – mining the gold in your own backyard

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Nicole’s Chronicle article provides a number of great examples of nonprofits successfully apply data analytics to achieve greater fundraising success, but all of these examples represent large, national nonprofits. Perhaps a special three-month campaign to win back lapsed donors.

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Data quality vs. data quantity: let’s end the debate!

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Bloomberg ran an interesting article recently about the negative impact of too much data on business and government. Members can read the article here. I don’t care what your industry is – you are being overwhelmed. Too much data turns ALL data into noise, because you can’t find what you need. Less is more.

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Does your charity have too much data?

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For example, FastCompany ran an excellent article pointing out “Why Too Much Data Disables Your Decision Making” This summer, when Facebook was caught running behavioral experiments on its users, ABC News published an article asking a question we should all be thinking about: “How much monitoring is too much?

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Donor Data Management Dictionary

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This article is intended to be a quick reference guide to introduce readers to a variety of data concepts and key terms. Many of the definitions in this article are found in, or are closely related to, reference sources readily available on the Internet, such as www.wikipedia.org and www.reference.com.

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More fundraising software = more data headaches

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In his article “ Finding the perfect fundraising database in an imperfect world “, Robert Weiner covers the spectrum of issues and challenges that nonprofits must work through when making fundraising technology decisions.

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How to forecast fundraising risk before your walkathon stalls

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The answer is a resounding ‘yes,’ which should be good news to nonprofit organizations concerned about recent news articles portraying the declining fortunes in walkathons and other popular team-building events. Can the risk to your next fundraising effort be forecast in advance through some basic data algorithms?