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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. It provides the ultimate tool to bring all your school software into one system and allows everything to talk to each other. This is the dream. What am I talking about?

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

The organization provides tools that show campaign contributions, legislative votes, and patterns of influence. The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. Additionally, the actual size of the data came into question.

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wendy Harman from the Red Cross wished me a Happy Fourth of July with a Joey Chestnut reference which reminded of a post I wrote almost a year ago. Everyone in the organization understands that social media is more than an external communications tool, and they use it adroitly for their professional learning and even their personal lives.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. " The article refers to the Dunbar number - 150 - the ceiling on the number of personal contacts a human has the capacity to maintain. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills.

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GlassPockets at sunset: reflections from working at the intersection of power and light 

Candid

We will continue to offer learning tools, such as the transparency self-assessment and aggregate transparency trends from GlassPockets on Candid Learning for Funders , and we invite you to use them there. When GlassPockets started, it was rare to find any reference to transparency on funder websites.

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Best Practices for Protecting Your K–12 School from Cybersecurity Threats

sgEngage

Systems that hold student information should be HIPAA, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), and OneRoster 1.1 Please reference the below resources for valuable information on mitigating risk and creating a cybersecurity program within your school: [link]. Review software vendor agreements carefully. staysafeonline.org.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool.

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