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Training on your new database

Robert Weiner

Train the system administrator thoroughly at the start of the implementation project. Also train the team that will be making decisions about the system's configuration at the start of the implementation project. Train end users on a sample database, not production data. Train end users on a sample database, not production data.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

Inclusive organizations create systems that encourage ongoing intellectual and stylistic disruptions of the status quo in service of an underlying organizational mission. The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review. Examine current goals and objectives around board diversity and create benchmarks.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

If you’re not sure what to say, here’s a list of sample phrases you can use to thank donors. You can automate this with your online donor management system. If yours is a young organization and still uses a spreadsheet, consider getting started with a low-cost donor management system now. Yes, daily!

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.” .

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

The good news is that the myth that you can’t make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. We create systems to mitigate all risk. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now? The trust is that other countries are passing us by.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Both of these seem natural as we are in the business of ideas and we are adjacent to formal education systems. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. People go to museums for leisure.)

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

The &# Review of Management of Internet Websites in the United Nations System Organizations“ (31 pages) focuses on website governance and strategy – and I still have to meet a web manager who doesn’t feel this could be improved." "Hujambo from Tanzania!

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