Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

SAP Visual Intelligence software takes massive amounts of data and transforms it into colorful, easy-to-grasp visual displays. Users can input data in seconds with a couple of points and clicks. Try It Out and See if You're a Data Geek. website along with a contest aimed at new and nontechnical users. Images: SAP.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Start by mapping out what programs and services you plan to offer during the year. You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests. Once you have your year of fundraising mapped out, each fundraising effort should have its own 90-day action plan. How many will you serve?

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. It can often be difficult to know where to start with your data.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Researchers and analyzers found that since 2012, there have been sizeable and increasing donation spikes each year during #GivingTuesday, and that data projections show this will only continue. Project organizers analyzed the results from the 2015 and 2016 contests to find what helped them succeed and get more votes in 2017.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

." » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC! ."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. What’s next?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that?

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Despite heavy adoption of technology across the space, recent data from Forbes found that 1 in 4 nonprofits are still “not sure” how to approach their events in 2021. In fact, data has found that nonprofits who are hosting virtual events are using the same channels and tactics to steward donors as they would in the in-person setting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

An interactive map app was also collaboratively created by the community as a social experiment to facilitate user experience. The new app, Awe.sm , correlates social media data with revenue at a low monthly cost. Maura Lafferty ( @mlaffs) introduced a new digital asset that community managers can use to measure ROI.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice. Cool right?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance. “ Ahead of the event, we mapped out our email marketing strategy and made sure it coincided with our social media and blog strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? b) Void States.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use online tools to gather data from across sectors.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

Fill-in color maps, text recognition, and interactive math and science programs help the students improve their schoolwork by approaching assignments in different ways. For example, children can scan their work and edit it on the tablet PC, color diagrams and maps with the stylus, or edit work directly with the keyboard.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. Use Esri’s geographic information system software to create maps that tell your story. Upload your data and use SAP Crystal Report to add animations, upload video and more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Poke around the map and see for yourself. Even if you don't win this month, we would still love to place your organization's story on the Local Impact Map. The winning stories will also be featured on the Local Impact Map at TechSoupGlobal.org as Featured Stories in November 2014. Official Rules. October 2, 2014.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Pages 9 and 10 pull together data from the NEA, the Irvine Foundation, Dance/USA, RAND, and the Knight Foundation to tell a tight, compelling story about the demographic shift from consumptive to active participation and the extent to which traditional arts audiences are also participating in art-making outside of traditional arenas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. You also need to observe like a primatologist, like Jane Goodall.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

The 2009 award went to Darius Jazayeri, the 31-year-old developer behind OpenMRS , an open source application used by health clinics and hospitals on five continents to keep, share, and track medical record data. The winners were: First Prize Winner ($5,000) -- Social Actions Interactive Map -- submitted by John Brennan.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data. And creative problem solving (from puzzles and caption contests to improve and every episode of MacGyver ever). Hundreds, probably thousands, of items meant for donors … and built to fail. Beth Kanter. BethKanter.org. He loves clubs.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. Don’t let this term scare you. JUST for fun! Call to Action.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

” So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? Then we use my signature asset mapping system that helps you identify both what your partners are looking for and what your assets are beyond your programming. And the thing I want to say is that this strategy, this whole strategy is called funder mapping.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? She hustles her face off, she scavenges around her CRM system, she runs report after report on her donor data and prospect list, she sends out an email to her board members to see who they’re connected to, she starts talking to her staff members about running a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. We use all of our technology – from the website, to the database, to facebook – to evaluate our efforts, monitor the community, and create data-driven strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Commentary on the data here. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.) CEO Kintera steps down. Some reactions here. Generation.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

Rather than needing to work with your city to map out a safe map route for a 5K or finding enough staff and volunteers to line a race route, you just need a venue and sound system to host a dance-a-thon fundraiser with an in-person component. Create a webpage where participants can post pictures and videos of them dancing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Projects working in the U.S.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

To pinpoint your target donor audience, consider the following strategies: Analyze Existing Donor Data: Start by reviewing the data you already have. Map Out Campaign Timelines: Determine the start and end dates of your fundraising campaigns, and break them down into key phases. Be sure to assign specific actions to each phase.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Adding a new data point to it. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. You aren??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 2) Crowd Creation. Internet platforms make it is easy for crowds to vote, rate, and provide feedback. Think Yelp , eBay , or Amazon.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. USAID Should do More to Require their Contractors to Share Data. Many contractors avoid sharing this raw data for competitive reasons. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Though I love data, traditional numbers are so far from social media at it's core. Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. It's the relationships I adore.

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