Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

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! It’s incredible! You’ll also notice that you can see the impressions, as well as the responses.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

These “data-piping” tools allow you to connect to a myriad of cloud-based services and data sources, extract data in real-time, map and transform this data, and then move it to a cloud-based data store (which is the next “layer” in our modern data stack). Tools we recommend at this stage include Looker , Superset , Mode , and Metabase.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

Just as our tools get more interesting and dynamic for global collaboration and impact, so do they for locally-focused work, campaigns, and communities. Fuel efforts or campaigns – target energy and capacity to promote and drive local impact. Social media may connect people around the world but it can also connect them locally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It compliments the data that you get from Insights – it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. 4 Social Trends Impacting the Future of Online Fundraising. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr. Here’s the top posts for February. 2-Plugged In: Boomers.

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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

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 We looked at the museum map on the wall. There’s the “I can’t read the map” problem. When the aggregate names are abstract, it’s hard to know what to expect. It had considerably fewer than 1.3 million nodes.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. See the participants map of the world. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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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

” Impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, and global NPOs come together with the goal of furthering social, environmental, and economically sustainable solutions. Among this year’s many themes, I want to highlight two: (1) Impact Investing and (2) Measurement & Evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

These points and the full #4Change conversation are applicable to the Climate Change movement, but also to many social impact sectors and the campaigns reaching around the world. These three lessons focus on what is successful, unique or important about using social media for the Climate Change movement (or any social impact area).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool. Image: SOCAP13.

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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. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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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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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. Otherwise we have settled for low impact and disengaged motions; I’m after a real movement! Should EDN be an aggregator for the sector, pulling in news and reports, information and so on?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps. And for good reason.

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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. This has had an impact on the design of the cards, game instructions, etc. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a "Social Media Strategy Map" workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact? . It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Social enterprises are collecting more and more data: data about social problems; data about intervention outcomes; data for collective impact; data for learning; data for dashboards to better operate their enterprises; data for funders; and the list goes on. Yet, social enterprises arent typically made up of data geeks.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

Think back to your business goals and consider activities that drive: Operational outcomes – include activities that directly impact your revenue like renewals, purchases, meeting attendance, and course registration. Use aggregate engagement scores to: Validate your value proposition. Award nominees. Segment customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

And, more disturbingly, even though a majority of foundation CEOs believe seeking beneficiary feedback will increase their impact, fewer than half of nonprofits receive funding to collect feedback. Carefully Map Out Timing. But, most nonprofits do NOT collect feedback in an ongoing, systematic way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. Listening helps her aggregate stories for her blog and has helped her grow the readership. That happens when leaders model and encourage it. This drove traffic.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? A not-incidental subtheme was around effectiveness: how to identify the global health problems to be solved (e.g, "who's dying young, and why?"), and the impact of spending to solve them. what are the standards that will enable a data framework for the above (e.g.,

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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. Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. Today's Blog Action Day 2009 !

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

To have the biggest impact on your organization, you’ve got to turn the tables and start proactively researching so you can identify the strongest prospects. Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. Work as a team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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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! ► April (9) Research Friday: The Office or the Impact? All You Need is Love.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Forum One has worked with dozens of organizations to effectively show impact and change outcomes using data. Other data-driven sites want to reach a much broader audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I want to improve my writing.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

At the forefront of strategies is impact investing. From the plenary speech alone, it was clear how much the impact investing field has evolved. Access to capital has been growing over the past ten years, and international collaboration is increasing in order to build a stronger infrastructure to support impact investing.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Technology impacts many areas of your nonprofit’s operations, from donor management to fundraising, accounting, marketing, and more. Technology impacts nearly every aspect of modern nonprofit operations. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides. Let’s get started.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Data Mapping and Visualization. Microsoft enables charities to use Bing Maps free of charge. ESRI mapping tools software donations. A Few Good Mapping and GIS Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. But that would be a lot of content! Take your pick!

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