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Candid and COVID-19: Getting information to a world in crisis

Candid

In this article from our 2020 annual report , Laia Griñó shares how people across Candid collaborated to create the website in record time. We linked to new Candid Blog posts offering updated funding analyses, historical perspective, and predictive models about how the crisis would affect nonprofits.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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Crypto is Not Broken

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The way this flaw emerged has motivated us to review Martus's security model, and we are pleased with how well it has stood up. results were focused on keys generated by very specific models of electronic devices, especially routers and firewalls. They didn't wait to collect enough churning info to seed their PRNG.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. The organizers plan to host such sessions every six to eight weeks - and will provide more info here. Impressive.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

We sent several of our best representatives to meet our fellow nonprofits and take in the latest tech info from the sessions. " and includes modeling statistical analysis. and the collaborative notes on every session at the conference. Nonprofits Get Free Microsoft Azure Credits. " and includes alerts and dashboards.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: As with the service sector, so our fate.

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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin.