[slideshare id=15468357&doc=rahul-infohub-pecha-kucha-121203102734-phpapp02] Earlier this week, I participated in a meeting hosted by the Knight Foundation that brought together a small group of amazing thinkers in Silicon Valley -- nonprofits, for-profits, activists, bloggers, and others interested in technology for civic engagement that builds connections between residents and our governments. It's all related to its TechForEngagement summit last year. (Lucy Bernholz, who also … [Read more...]
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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!
Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World." We started off discussing the recently released report from NTEN/Idealware that found that nonprofits collect lots of data, but don't look at it. One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: "We don't have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data - so we … [Read more...]
Using Cartoons To Make Sense of Your Data
Note From Beth: If you've picked up a copy of the newly released "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World" than you no doubt noticed the cartoons, created by Rob Cottingham, that begin each chapter. Rob worked with us as we developed each chapter to pick out the key idea and poke of at it - we wanted to write a book about measurement that was accessible and fun to read. But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons … [Read more...]
Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake
With the release of the "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World, I'm looking forward to participating in the conversation about how nonprofits can use measurement, data, and learning to for social change. We are living in a "Big Data" is a theme I'm seeing discussed this past month in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. It refers to large data sets that requires powerful software tools to capture, storage, search, sharing, analysis, visualization and … [Read more...]
Attention Nonprofit #datanerds: Data-Informed Fundraising!
We may need to start wearing these here! RT @kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe - I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4 — Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012 The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with "I Love Data!" in the office). But if you read the articles in this issue, you will come to conclusion that loving (and using data) for strategic … [Read more...]
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