Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. What data matters most? I like how you are weaving together both number data and qualitative data and how you plan to collect stories.

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Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

We aren’t terribly interested in quantitative data (e.g., Remember, we are looking for qualitative data: What did visitors find confusing, misleading, ugly, or painful on my website? Got a hard case at your org who wants “real data”? Again, usability testing isn’t an academic exercise.

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Guinea Test Donation Blackbaud 37

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used. For me, technology and labor were really two sides of the same coin.

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Museum Guinea Tech Studies 45

NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2016

For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? Set specific, measurable goals for each one of these based on historical data, and predicting success will get easier. Start by clearly defining your organization’s impact goal. What’s BIG difference does your nonprofit exist to make?

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Raise Guinea Retention Money 28

NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

It's simple to cross-reference and correlate data to see what works. What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. At Mobile Commons, we keep track of every single action a user takes – from sending a text message to making a phone call to clicking on a link.

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Campaign Data Lesson Language 75

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I have a strong desire to have data at my fingertips whenever I’m working with an organization. And if I’m correct, I believe you can easily generate reports in Bloomerang to get these kinds of downloadable data points in a CSV or an Excel file, or even. Great question. . Hopefully some of you I’ll do too.

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Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 90