Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

and provided the two possible responses of “friends&# or “data&# – I used the question style where respondents had to pick one answer or the other exclusively. And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

RT @ kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe – I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4. The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!” Does your nonprofit have those skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Kudos to NTEN for breaking the template on the typical type of events it has hosted. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2012

Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably. Data-driven storytelling is all the rage on the web, particularly as we move into the election season. ThinkShout.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

How interactive maps can be used to start conversations about equity. NTEN’s Steph Routh caught up with Scotty Ellis to ask about how the region''s non-profits are using the Atlas. Data interactive maps regional equity Program' Coalition for a Livable Future. It created the second iteration last year.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2013

Data Infrastructure Integration & APIs Mobile mobile advocacy mobile mapping mobile optimization mobile program delivery nonprofit technology nptech Open Source Strategy Web Sites Communications IT Staff'

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2012

In honor of the annual migration of children returning to school, NTEN member The Case Foundation is hosting a sweepstakes as part of their Be Fearless campaign. GOOD Maker, in a partnership with NTEN, announced Detroit's Green Economy Leadership Training (Solidarity) winner of their Use Technology for Good challenge.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. Where are you finding/sharing data for your organization?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. —– I love data as much as the next person. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Is data helpful if you aren’t using it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mapping data can help nonprofits monitor protests and election violence, decide where to buy repossessed homes to convert into affordable housing, determine how and where to deliver supplies and aid in disaster-stricken areas – and document zombie invasions. Do you use GIS systems in your work?

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2014

Today we give a huge thanks to our mighty team of NTEN Community Champions : you helped to collectively raise over $30,000 for the greater good of the #nptech community! To recognize the tremendous work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact. Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are three tools I created or co-authored that can help you match skills to roles: Nonprofit Data & Tech Skill-Building Checklist — a worksheet that provides an inventory of technology and data-related skills and a way to rate your skills or those of a team member or job candidate.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. I've always felt that maps are just plain cool. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. Data carry enormous potential. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." And rightly so.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Map 111

NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

HaitiAidMap from InterAction (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . organizations sharing their data are many NTEN members, including.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Flickr: Lydia Mann (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) We love Geo Locating and Mapping! Members are in bold. I'm forced to tweet."

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Websites are loaded with eye candy these days — from slick user interfaces to interactive maps to cool photo slideshows — all achieved without Flash, just HTML, CSS and Javascript. In this 2-part series, I'm going to focus on the rapidly changing world of interactive tools for data visualization, or dataviz.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. And for good reason.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Rock on open data and mapping! Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Thank you for tracking and sharing these data and case studies! Members are in bold. 500|5000 list.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

For four weeks this summer, we got a crash course in data transparency. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US.

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Data API Mashup Contest 82

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. How do you share your data? Observe and sift through qualitative data like a primatologist or anthropologist. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Feed digest.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform.

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Web Map Bookmarking Conversation 114

NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Start with data. Data is one of the easiest things we can share. We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. The problem is that the data in these formats is usually still locked away – inside a PDF, wrapped in text.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Citizen Four is the recently-launched movie about Edward Snowden’s journey to uncover data-related privacy breeches. You can journey through London’s civil landscape with these twelve data maps. Here’s a map of search data in list form. You can create and share a personalized snowflake. Things We Like twl'

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Georgia Map Movie Chart 63

NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Session: Data Data Everywhere: Drowning in a sea of Analytics. To measure success, you need to see big picture data from every corner of the Internet, and know how to interpret all these numbers, even if they seem all over the map. Speaker: Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting.

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Analytics Data Question Atlanta 70

NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

All on its own, your data can tell you amazing things about your work. Your data isn't meant to be consumed all by itself. When you can see your data in those contexts, you can learn a heck of a lot more than you can by looking at your data in a vacuum. Take, for example, housing data.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could. Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Tags: NPTech NTEN data visualization 09NTC. Are our students learning? .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined this quarter''s NTEN Town Hall! I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. NTEN Update NTEN staff met in Portland for our winter staff meetings earlier in January. We call it the "rain drops".)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Classic chicken v egg: Is there more data because there are more techies? Or more techies because data keeps pouring out of the system faster than we can keep up? The government has also published a map of broadband availability nationwide. Want to create more data? Wait, you read the NTEN blog. Of course you do!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

It's already the last week of Member Appreciation Month in the NTEN community! Our goal this month is to create a platform to recognize all the sharing and generosity in the NTEN community - and say thank you! Prizes : Who doesn't love a fun NTEN prize? Or, rather, #NTENThanks.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Every year NTEN uses a community-driven process to develop the agenda. In this session, we’ll talk about: Effective stakeholder engagement How to think omnichannel in a siloed organization The importance of an audience-centric approach Data, data, data Building a solid foundation when leaders are eager for results.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. Karaoke songs with NTEN staff embarrassing themselves: 2. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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