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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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Why Should Nonprofits Choose Abundance (and Breathe)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result. “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Reimagining Museums with Latin America Leading the Way

Museum 2.0

We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty. The sessions were smartly structured with different lengths and formats, ranging from panels to workshops to participatory performances to an intense "courtroom" in which co-creation was put on trial.

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Research Friday: The Trouble with Pay Raises

ASU Lodestar Center

In fact, there is a huge tendency for employees to get disgruntled and de-motivated by the compensation structure. Let’s make sure our employees are motivated and engaged by building a culture that emphasizes purpose, teamwork, recognition, and achievement.” We’ll aggregate the responses and compile the data into a big.

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Guest Post by Jon Husband: Crowdsourcing and Customer, Employee and Stakeholder Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds). A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. In Surowiecki’s terms this represents its collective wisdom.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement.