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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". The tools.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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