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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

Candid

The resulting data set can be considered a convenience sample, capturing the latest demographic data that’s been shared by each participating organization. This section also outlines how the data is collected and stored. For example, U.S. nonprofits voluntarily share demographic data through their profile.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Crowdsourcing vs Community-sourcing: What’s the difference and the opportunity?

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Aggregate and promote – be sure you are pulling together all of the contributions from the community and promoting people in real-time. Community sourcing vs Crowdsourcing. Definitions. Let’s start at the beginning. What do all these words even mean?

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What 2020 year-end fundraising can tell us about 2021 

M+R

One notable difference when looking at Giving Tuesday year to year is when these emails are sent: every group in our sample sent at least one email before the special day, with groups sending as many as three pre-Giving Tuesday emails. But the individual experiences are telling.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Take Control of Your Data: 3 Must-Have Reporting Tools Every Nonprofit Should Have

Everyaction

Any good reporting tool should have the ability to aggregate numbers based off the category of your choosing. As you can see from the sample report above, a Moves Management report shows you everything from who is soliciting the gift to the status of the ask to the campaign it’s under. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. That can make it difficult to navigate. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.