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Your Tips for NTC Part 2: Discover Minneapolis

NTEN

We previously posted your tips for navigating the NTC itself, but a fun part of the conference is also exploring the Minneapolis area. Once again, the NTEN community was full of recommendations for great places to check out on your NTC trip. And no NTC would be complete without the annual #ntcbeer NTC Beerfest.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” Map the data. ” I’ve gone back to his workbook based on his first book to practice and improve visualization skills and thinking as well as drawing.

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Google Launches Google for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results. All in all, a packed day before the official start of the 2011 NTC. The demo showed how to turn your smart phone into an interpreter with experimental software that. lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.

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Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

Forum One

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This last week I was at NTC 09 in San Francisco leading a session on Mapping Metrics To Strategy. It gets at that failing formally point that Clay Shirky was talking about NTC Keynote. One of my favorite metrics geeks, Jim Sterne , has very advice on " How To Measure Engagement On Twitter." It's not just math phobia.

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Nature vs. Nuture, or Why You Should Follow Your Gut on the Social Web

NTEN

The majority of the time I spent thinking, I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch our own webinars and listen to our own advice! (What makes it official? It has its own Google Doc.) I scoured the internet for resources. Turns out, there were plenty in our own backyard. I read and read and quickly became overwhelmed.

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Cloud Computing in Our Stormy Present

NTEN

I had the chance to interview him about his upcoming NTC session , and that set me to thinking about just what we COULD do with the cloud if we were able to look beyond the bottom line. . In the cloud, we can share client service data with other organizations and map it against the need demonstrated by census data.

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