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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. Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.)

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Does Your Nonprofit Have A Social Media Work Flow?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The product is a diagram or a series of diagrams like the one above for a large nonprofit facilitated by Steve Heye that outlines the steps. Owyang’s post points to some terrific examples including a diagram from Socialfish helped facilitate for ASCE and the class diagram from the Airforce. Tag and flag. Flow control.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I admit it.

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If I could do the NpTech Tag Over Again.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb is facilitating. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. In evaluating the use of the nptech tag, it was discovered that a lot of people were using the tag, but not necessarily reading the tag.

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Life, Times, and Context of the NpTech Tag: An Informal Discussion/Reflection Online at CpSquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. What are the technical and social pre-requisites for a tagging project? (a

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Fun with Drupal Commons, a Powerful Solution for Online Community Building

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In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. Tags: Influence Collaboration. This hasn't changed.

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