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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

We believe that organizations should be compensated for the creation, organization, maintenance, and updates of community information data, especially in the nonprofit space. Moreover, raising money specifically for data management is much more difficult than raising funds for particular causes.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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How to Implement a Data-Driven Approach to Fundraising

Saleforce Nonprofit

Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. In 2018, the National Aquarium took its Salesforce use a step further, hiring a database administrator that improved the team’s reporting, organization, and understanding of the power of the CRM they were using. The National Aquarium is in Baltimore, Maryland. The Old Ways.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Better Together: Collaboration and.

ASU Lodestar Center

If youre completely lost, the Nonprofit Collaboration Database is a great place to start. Its packed with helpful information, as well as a searchable database of nonprofits who are looking for partners. Plenty of resources are appearing to help guide and promote collaboration. Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunte.

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With Liberty, and Information, For All?

NTEN

When data is stuck on servers, web publishing is slow and centralized. When your stakeholders can't chew on, discuss, and disseminate your data and messages, transparency can't happen. More and more of our data is in the cloud, or accessible via APIs. You need to do that with your own data. You can do it, too!

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously.

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