Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Do you believe you can change the world? As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Do you think you can change the world?

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

How GA4 Differs from the Previous Version While the basic functions of Google Analytics have stayed the same, GA4 introduces some changes that your fundraisers will find very helpful. Your aggregate-level data will still be saved, but event-level data, such as file downloads, will only be kept for 14 months.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Understanding the goals and objectives, and the potential data that could serve these goals, Forum One helped develop a system to aggregate payroll and advancement data from employers, then map it to internal data attached to members who had matriculated through the professional development program.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Thankfully, that’s changing. The great news is that new approaches and affordable tools are changing how nonprofits can manage and analyze data throughout this process. Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Tools to Help You ‘Get the Data’.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Driven by the learner.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives. The Climate Change movement has embraced technology for all the good it can do. . With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. changing individual motions into a unified movement. Something that can really help the climate change movement is documentation, shared between campaigns, organizations, and coalitions, about 1.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Things have changed – don't get me started, my daughter is in kindergarten – but the socialization part is still there. So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. Flickr photo: Toban Black.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. What's Changing?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Foundations now have another lever to affect social change on top of their programming initiatives. Measurement & Evaluation: Measurement is playing a large role in fostering collaboration between foundations and NPO service providers to positively affect social change and assist decision makers with allocating grant dollars.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. And for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. There is a process that requires understanding the space between the tools and the people and having someone (a change agent?) Tags: change management network effectiveness. or social media was all about. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog.   The content includes announcements, events, program happenings, staff changes, commentary, stories about volunteers or donors, and answers to stakeholder questions.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. He also commented on the empowering nature of social media and its ability to let one individual change reality. and it changes all our understanding of a situation immediately." Now they have the tools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Austin and colleagues reiterate the commercial turn thesis , as does Dees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. It isn’t about content, although that is important. Hashtag Stats.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Reveal Change. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Reveal Change. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. For social media, you need to set your objectives based on a clear understanding of how social media changes the feedback loop between your organization and stakeholders. I particularly like the worksheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Leaders strive to change the way that other people think, feel and act”. . Deep change is all about a change in the collective story. It is a change in the way that people, think, feel and act. . We have to get behind the trajectory of story described above, and use peoples’ stories to effect more and better change. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Fund for Shared Insight is trying to change that. Carefully Map Out Timing. CEO is now moving toward a confidential system of surveys where participants won’t be individually identified, but staff will access aggregated data and respond to themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 Getting Ideas for Campaigns or Programs. This drove traffic.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? what are the human factors (culture change, trust, networks) that will enable full participation by all parties in all of the above? Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. A couple things I discovered by following participants' ant trails: The Bay Versus the Bay: This was an excellent example of how social media strategy can support behavior change or action.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing on a broad scale will also fundamentally change how we work, where we work, and with whom we work. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. tools, you need to change your mindset. Why nothing about social aggregators ? Here's one that isn't on the list: Mindmeister. has been around for a while. Listening is important.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing on a broad scale will also fundamentally change how we work, where we work, and with whom we work. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing. Already, the Fenty Administration is seeing dramatic changes in the way government is operating as it works with the same real-time data that is accessible to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. applications have changed the rules of online community. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Generation.

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