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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

This means that we help them to transform their business — not only digitally, but using a human-centered approach that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of a problem-solving process. Ecosystem map representing the adopt-a-project concept with key value exchanges. Adopt A Project.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. We always had a group of 15-50 people together for intense brainstorming.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. Peer Assists/Shares: A peer assist when you put people into small groups and participants help each other by problem solving. Then the group draws the connections. 2. Balancing Content Delivery and Sense Making.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." I want to eat statistics for dinner. Mashups make me want to sing!