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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. Nancy used the analogy of operating like car company that puts out different vehicle models and each year will have a different version with different features. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

According to Daren Brabham, crowdsourcing consultant and author of Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities , crowdsourcing is the organization of online communities to utilize their combined resources.

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