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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t ” The Jawbone has previously put out aggregate data reports around sleep habits of those that wear its device. How long will this data be stored?

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. A basic BI strategy would certainly provide a way to tell you how many reports have been downloaded. Myth #4: Our Staff Tracks What They Need. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

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"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What do you track? Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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