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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Many activities in the social sphere also generate lots of information. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

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They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. This method makes complex concepts easier for your stakeholders to understand and makes it easier to have more informed discussions on the next steps your organization should take. Implement procedures to asess metrics.

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7 Nonprofits that Inspired Us in 2013 and How Your Favorite Nonprofit Can Make the List this Year.

Connection Cafe

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Seven Nonprofits That Deserve a Standing Ovation

Connection Cafe

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It makes the point that the growth of social and digital media usage development policy research can reach more people in more areas of the world and allows international organizations to start and inform discussions with people ranging from academics and activists to UN officials and government ministers.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. Disconnect doesn’t log any keywords, personal information, or IP addresses after it routes your query to its own servers.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference hosted a series of discussions about how technology is used to expand and sometimes undermine essential freedoms around the world. In the closing session, El-Fatah noted that he had just gotten an email saying that two of his friends had just been killed in Syria. How do we tell the truth?