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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

Tech Soup

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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Feel the Heat: Great Tools for Mapping Website Interactions

Byte Technology

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? Essentially, the tools and programs for creating a heat-map build an “overlay” of your various site’s pages, and areas that attract more activity appear “hotter” than sections that experience low activity.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Most humans absorb information through written or spoken words and images that help them connect and synthesize chunks of information. Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question. Data helps us make decisions. Find that person, tell them they are amazing , and help them get in touch with their peers.

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A Helpful (Unofficial) Digital Training Guide for New AmeriCorps Members

Whole Whale

So here is a 7 step road map to get started: Find and study the data Google Analytics for web traffic Email database CRM Donor database Other program/services data Course: Understanding Google Analytics. Steal this chart and use it to frame where your digital work/investments are going.

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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Community Map. Why : Why map your community? Content Map.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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

sgEngage

Here are five tips to help your community health center’s fund accounting implementation smooth and seamless. It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. Identify the right skills on your team.

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