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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Raw data—such as customer lists with phone numbers and email addresses—is a valuable resource as-is.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

Get Fully Funded

Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Next, you need a site map. This is a map that lays out the pages your site needs. When you think about your site map, think about your audience. Trustworthy?

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, more importantly, Kenyan citizens will have a place where their collective voices can be heard as they push for a safer, more transparent democracy. Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.

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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

Remove barriers to participation with digital tools: If you’re engaging asynchronously and via email or phone, a high volume of messages concentrated at once will make a bigger impact. Creating change is not a “one-size-fits-all” effort—there’s room for many voices.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Where contact information is requested, provide (if applicable) Name, Title, Address, Email Address, Phone Number.

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Help me decide: Is it time for this iPhone user to go Android?

Judi Sohn

I use Google Voice, Google+, Google Calendar, etc. Android phones seem to be much cheaper with contract than iPhones. I heard Google Maps on Android is fabulous. I have no idea how to really compare these phones and make the right decision, aside from reading thousands of reviews. What is the life cycle on these phones?

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Goodbye iPhone – First 24 hours of Android

Judi Sohn

After reading reviews and getting opinions from friends on social media, as well as time spent just playing with different phones in the AT&T store, I decided on the Samsung Infuse 4G. It’s incredible how light and thin this phone is. No hoops to jump through in order to switch seamlessly to Google Voice and back.

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