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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

Co-development led to conceptualization of participation of people with disabilities in advocacy for legislative, policy and government program change as an impact—in and of itself—regardless of outcome. Other participatory grantmakers have developed new MEL tools to better reflect a power shift to grantee perspective on impact.

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The Secret to Going Viral: Harnessing the Kevin Bacon Effect

NetWits

The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. So what’s the secret to unlocking the “Kevin Bacon effect,” AKA viral marketing? How can each of you take your cause viral, whether it’s an exciting announcement, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent?

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). You're welcome.

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