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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work. Quietly, a lot of groups are doing this important work – but I am beginning to feel they may require even greater attention.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen. Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance. Even in the U.S., A new approach.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

Box has chosen Bryan Breckenridge, formerly the head of LinkedIn for Good , as Box.org’s executive director. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. This offer is international. Find eligibility information here.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy.

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