Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 17, 2011
Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises.
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. The numbers, statistics, and trends should inform joint initiatives. Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information.
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.orgSource
MAY 15, 2023
The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. The numbers, statistics, and trends should inform joint initiatives. Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Extra information is available further down the page, but they encourage action right away instead of trying to educate. If you have a plan for where those announcements go, what they look like, and what kind of information they include, it will be easier to respond to last-minute changes (or, dare I say, “pivot”). 3) Start Early.
Nimble AMS
APRIL 26, 2019
Just consider these statistics from the report: 76 percent of customers expect companies to understand their needs and expectations. Walk a virtual mile in your members’ shoes by creating member journey maps. Members now expect organizations to collect information to personalize their experience.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 7, 2011
You're absolutely right that information quality comes from people and that data's fitness for a particular purpose is very contextual. To continue in this direction, let’s look at how people use this information. The people who are in most need of information about humanitarian disasters are the organized responders.
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