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AI at Candid: Powering technology to support the sector’s lasting success

Candid

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Turning data we collect into the most comprehensive view of the social sector.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 77: Leveraging the Power of People

Connection Cafe

Why the sector needs a standard taxonomy to manage and measure volunteerism. Listen: Resources: Article: “ Volunteers ” by Jenny Lawson, President of Innovation, Points of Light in npEXPERTS 2018. “…over 30 percent of the workforce in the nonprofit sector is really contributions by volunteers.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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NTEN's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

NTEN

Many people shared that the community groups provide a lot of value for them, so we would do well to put more community-generated content throughout the main site and highlight community-contributed articles more prominently.

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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

NTEN

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? If the latter, you'll need to get creative; see Johanna Bates’ articles on tips for successful CMS building on a budget and the importance of building with standards.

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Why You Need a Content Strategy

Forum One

We then began crafting the entire site, from articles to program pages, to support that experience. . Simplified—and effective— user experience. A content strategy helps you map out your site content and develop clear, engaging, and useful user journeys for a better experience.

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