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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Groups currently are maxed at 25 members, but in time will likely grow and perhaps even enable one-to-many group texting for free or at a very low-cost.

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

Still, though, I had some questions around the definition of big data — and it seemed like the presenters did too. Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Privacy and Definitions.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Love of the print book. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.