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3 Infographic Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simple infographics employ just a few visual elements (pictures or charts), words, and numbers. This infographic showing the history of communication is a souped-up timeline with a clear path and color cues telling you when you have entered a new era. Are simple. A few might work. Too many and you’ve lost your audience.

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How people secured their secrets before encyption

Fast Company Tech

” Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter , by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, with the Unlocking History Research Group [Photo: MIT Press] Together, the pair began studying what they came to call letterlocking, reconstructing through close analysis and modeling the many ways historic letters were folded and secured.

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The Ultimate Grassroots Flow Chart

Care2

Any decent CRM system will help you get a good snapshot of your constituents interests and history of actions with your organization. Check out this great chart that Ben Murane of judaismwithoutborders. Check out this great chart that Ben Murane of judaismwithoutborders.

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Fundraising New Year’s Resolutions

Bloomerang

Start with recent giving history. Nonprofits can do much better by prudently committing the time and effort at the beginning of the year to analyze, reflect, and think collectively on charting how to make best use of finite resources so they can operate most effectively and efficiently over the next 12 months. It wont be easy.

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Infographics & Data Visualization: Not Your Grandmother’s Pie Chart

NTEN

It’s a way to take all that data you’ve collected about the great things your organization does, and use it for social good purposes – to illustrate timelines, histories, relationships, the impact of a program, and much more. With their unique combination of images and words, infographics are a powerful storytelling tool.

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Big tech’s 2021 earnings were off the chart

The Verge

Major companies ranging from Apple and Google to Netflix and Tesla all announced their earnings for the holiday quarter — and, as has been the case for more or less the last decade-plus of history, Big Tech made Big Bucks. Chart is interactive; click to see yearly revenue broken for each company. The question is: how did this happen?

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