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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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The key to making sound, big decisions is to ground them in real-world, vetted, unprejudiced, unadulterated data. Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Thankfully, these other data-led investments have finally paid off for VolunteerMatch. Sometimes we've led trends.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0

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