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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

7: Your Taxonomy Isn’t Organized In a Useful Way Challenge : Digital closets are a lot like physical closets. Whatever the case, if your organization doesn’t keep your taxonomy tidy, you’ll spend more time querying and comparing reports than finding the data you need the first time. Focus on what matters to operational outcomes (ex.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.

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Having Greater Impact Through Community and Collaboration

Connection Cafe

And wouldn’t it be even better if we could work together to grow that common language? That’s when we knew that collaboration—bringing people together and unifying them around a common language—would be a vital part of our solution. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all speak the same giving, measurement and outcomes language?

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3 Reasons to Love Outcomes Measurement

Tech Soup

Those years of working as a champion for change brought me to where I am today: part of Blackbaud's MicroEdge. Central to this new solution that provides a unified experience for funders and nonprofits is its sector-sourced outcomes measurement taxonomy. How did I get here? I had to become a part of this!

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation. Maybe it takes the form of consultants using the findings to examine their own practice and improve it. What do you think the scaffolds should be for learning in public as a field or network?

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” We worked in small teams. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Kicking off SOCAP16 at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Connection Cafe

Measurement & Evaluation: Measurement is playing a large role in fostering collaboration between foundations and NPO service providers to positively affect social change and assist decision makers with allocating grant dollars. Currently, we are building a solution to enable people to use uniform measurement for social change.