Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

In today’s world, there are plenty of tech options, processes, and formulas to implement and manage data. However, not all associations are at the same point in their data strategy journey. Together, we’ll explore how to implement this framework, step by step, so that your organization can move forward on your data strategy journey.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. There are some basic technology skills that most staff likely need, such as the ability to operate productivity software (e.g.,

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Skills Technology Develop Training 88

VisionLink

JULY 30, 2010

VisionLink has completed another review of our compliance with the Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) standards, version 6.0. We are pleased to report that we are just so slightly shy of the 100% benchmark. We''ll have the last bit taken care of very soon. of their overall standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects. Data accessibility challenges vary by sector. . Machine learning is not always the right answer.

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VisionLink

APRIL 15, 2010

Stay Tuned as the Community Operating System (tm) takes another major leap forward. Over the next week, I''ll summarize each module. Each component can be used right away, and yet each also provides fundamentally new and advanced capacities which can drive, and be driven by, complex community and partnership issues and needs.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Drupal 8 was a pivot toward enterprise and made it more competitive with fully featured proprietary systems like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Sitecore.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Drupal 8 was a pivot toward enterprise and made it more competitive with fully featured proprietary systems like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Sitecore.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Drupal 8 was a pivot toward enterprise and made it more competitive with fully featured proprietary systems like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Sitecore.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. I had to become a part of this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Well, that's an awful lot of pages of data and words, and you want some quick-fix guidelines and benchmarks. Let's look at how to get the most valuable and applicable data from the State of Grantseeking reports in the least amount of time. What Data Should I Use? So Now What? Next Steps for Grantseekers. Annual Budget.

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Fund Award Government Taxonomy 62

NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

with no problems, but it is a confusing, non-seamless transaction experience, both in terms of design interface and glitches in data sync between different systems. In general, people were able to conduct transactions (i.e. register for an event, renew their membership, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

) asks: "Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working (scaling) to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? " Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

register for an event, become a member, connect with their peers) What data helped name the problems that we’ll try to solve, and what data will guide our decisions throughout this process? Have a taxonomy horror story? And please, please share your favorite go-to resources with us. Design triumph?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. Goodbye, massive spreadsheets.

Measure 20

Measure Taxonomy Impact Language 20

Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

I was happy to see a consistent theme of encouraging partnerships, especially public-private partnerships, to address these challenging systemic issues around which the SDGs were created. The Power of Using Data in the Media. The Power of Partnerships. Everyone has a role to play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Vander Wal states that the value of a folksonomy is derived from three key data elements: the person tagging, the object being tagged (as an entity), and the tag being attached to that object. From these three data elements you only need two in order to find the third. keyword to use. He provides an example from del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. For example, taxonomy. What are you going to do as the system gets larger???? Clustering the data. m not trying to tag every file format or data type, but what???s

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

We have not lived up to HRFN’s potential to contribute to a more coordinated philanthropic response to systemic racism and inequality. These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data. Many of these institutions have foundations, which are separate 501(c)(3) entities that exist to raise and/or manage private support for a single institution or system of institutions. Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S.

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