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Everything You Need to Know About Data You Learned in Kindergarten

NTEN

Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. Using data shared by partnering agencies, they are able to give their public a clear sense of where the need is, and how it is being met (or not) across the area they serve: Hunger is Unacceptable Map.

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2009 NTC Preview: Kurt Voelker on Data Visualization

NTEN

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. Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could. Are our students learning? .

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of them talking about hunger issues. I like how Holly Ross from NTEN handles her presence and her staff's presence -- and they are using Twitter for the organization. And while they did not map it out in the military precision of the AirForce Blog Response Assessment , it worked for them.

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Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

NTEN

Fortunately, soup kitchens don’t work alone in addressing hunger. Collectively, these organizations begin to address the complex issue of hunger. Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. > Download the NTAP Sector Research Assessment Report here.

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Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source!

NTEN

Holly Ross, NTEN. We have here at NTEN. You'd get a much better understanding if you got the client location information data from your grantees and mapped it against that same local and federal data. No single organization is going to end hunger in any country, state, county, city, or even neighborhood. But it works.