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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

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You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. This person shouldn’t be the clerical or data entry person. Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track.

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If a Metric Changes on a Spreadsheet and No One Notices, Does it Show Impact?

Amy Sample Ward

. —– I love data as much as the next person. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. But, there’s more to being data-informed and more to what we should demand of our data, right? Is data helpful if you aren’t using it? data nten'

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Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

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Furthermore, while NXT Insight Designer has matured, it will not be a full replacement for CT clients because it is limited to NXT data only. . The other solution Blackbaud is offering to its clients is to export all data (via nightly backups or Database View Export) and report on the raw data outside of the database.

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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

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From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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6 Great Interactive Data Visualization Tools (Part 1)

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Websites are loaded with eye candy these days — from slick user interfaces to interactive maps to cool photo slideshows — all achieved without Flash, just HTML, CSS and Javascript. In this 2-part series, I'm going to focus on the rapidly changing world of interactive tools for data visualization, or dataviz.

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Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics.

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