Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rosario Gauna and Donna Coles both wrote tutorials on the heels of the challenge, detailing how they approached the main requirements: donut charts, bar charts, divergent bar charts, and heatmaps. Project Starter: Part 2 – 3 Tips to Learn the Data’s Story. Chris DeMartini , DataBlick. Get Certified!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Create one video per month to tell stories about the impact of our organization by January, 2012. Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. And Facebook added that it will load new stories quickly, eliminating interruption in how users scroll through their news feeds. The Story on Facebook Promoted Posts ( here and here ). Six Types of Visual Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They often keep up with their own personal blogs or websites, as well as work with the Tableau team to guest-write stories, create educational materials for Tableau Product launches, and present at events like Tableau Conference and Dreamforce. Now she makes maps and all the other charts and graphs in Tableau (on a Mac, naturally!)

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

Data has the power to tell universal stories that are universally understood and the power to make change. This past month was also Black History Month, and I was incredibly inspired by the impactful data stories shared by the community. Ten Table Tips & Techniques - Round 4. Sean Miller , HipsterVizNinja. Nir Smilga.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story We touched on this principle above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. What’s your story? .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Tableau

APRIL 1, 2022

To mark the five-year publish anniversary of my book, The Big Book of Dashboards , we’re celebrating on Chart Chat ( sign up here ), and I also thought it a good time to look at how members of the Tableau Community are talking about dashboards these days. . Techniques for Disabling the Default Highlighting in Tableau. Bronwen Boyd.

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Tableau

APRIL 1, 2022

To mark the five-year publish anniversary of my book, The Big Book of Dashboards , we’re celebrating on Chart Chat ( sign up here ), and I also thought it a good time to look at how members of the Tableau Community are talking about dashboards these days. . Techniques for Disabling the Default Highlighting in Tableau. Bronwen Boyd.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

Data has the power to tell universal stories that are universally understood and the power to make change. This past month was also Black History Month, and I was incredibly inspired by the impactful data stories shared by the community. Ten Table Tips & Techniques - Round 4. Sean Miller , HipsterVizNinja. Nir Smilga.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 20, 2024

Getting a little further into the details of a Financial Edge NXT and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT integration, Heather LeVan and Julia Wehmeyer show you how you can get a cohesive money story across your organization.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s take a deep dive into the powerful data music stories our finalists told. Passionate about colors, he created a default custom palate and used optimization techniques to ensure he got the image he wanted. The judges all agreed that her combination of vibrant charts, animation and narrative crafting was powerful.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s take a deep dive into the powerful data music stories our finalists told. Passionate about colors, he created a default custom palate and used optimization techniques to ensure he got the image he wanted. The judges all agreed that her combination of vibrant charts, animation and narrative crafting was powerful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

You are writing a compelling story about how you are helping change the world for the better. You should have a data collection system that helps evaluate which fundraising techniques bring in new donors and which techniques help you retain donors or take them to the next level. Management and Organizational Charts.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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Data Storytelling New York City Story 79

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the world of nonprofit fundraising, stories are more than just words on a page or images on a screen; they are the beating heart of your mission. One of the primary ways we do this is through story. Once you have gathered and analyzed the data, you will have a better idea of how to craft a story that speaks to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. ROI Story Telling. View more presentations from kanter. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010 Communicate Often And Tell A Story "Most leaders visions fail, not due to a leaders inadequacies, but due to the leaders lack of communication," said Margaret Reynolds of Reynolds Consulting, LLC in Lees Summit, MO. Leaders need to communicate often, regularly and consistently," she recommended. "In

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since Tableau's first release in 2004, all visualizations created inside Worksheets have been rendered using VizQL , a breakthrough technology that allows you to create a chart with a simple drag-and-drop. Shipping sankey chart by Tristan Guillevin. Say hello to complex charts, as easy as drag and drop. What are Viz Extensions?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Cole offers techniques to visually tell stories while maintaining the data's integrity. In a follow-up message, Cole wrote out the following four central takeaways for viewers: Let the question you're trying to answer drive your chart choice. Strip out any unnecessary clutter.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Binning is a technique applied to categorize data values or to see distributions of data. Selecting the correct number of bins for a chart or map is often portrayed as a tradeoff. Choosing the best binning approach is often one that supports the story the author wants to tell their audience or to support data exploration.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Binning is a technique applied to categorize data values or to see distributions of data. Selecting the correct number of bins for a chart or map is often portrayed as a tradeoff. Choosing the best binning approach is often one that supports the story the author wants to tell their audience or to support data exploration.

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Tableau

APRIL 21, 2021

But it missed the ability to expand and explore data through charts, tables, and reports that organizations needed to glean important insights and take action. Among one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, Gorongosa National Park in the heart of central Mozambique is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Some organizations have been regularly curating visual content on Pinterest, for example, this board from Momsrising on Health Care Stories. We also did media outreach and placed a couple member stories, interviews and opeds by our ExecDir, and shared several pictures from UpWorthy. ” What’s the value?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

So, we kicked things off with speed dating – modified share pairs to give participants swap success stories and mutual problem solving. I also added a round of “Pair Squares” or having two sets of pairs pair up – this helps break the intensity of the one-on-one.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

Techniques that Create Credibility Clarity, authenticity, and inclusivity are essential for communicating trust effectively. Here are some techniques that we like to use: Feedback Loops Designing feedback mechanisms encourages open communication with audiences. And are you paying attention to all the right cues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2015

Not every organization has the staff or budget to professionally design every graphic or chart it produces. Your first goal in creating a data visualization is to tell a story that the viewer can easily understand — and the best way to accomplish that goal is to provide context to your presentation. Context is king.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Collage of Tableau Public visualizations ( The Tableau Chart Catalog by Kevin Flerlage, The Tableau Chart Builder by Jeff Plattner, and It Started With A Viz | VOTD by Autumn Battani) and the Tableau Public homepage. Or how exciting it was anytime a journalist included any form of data analysis in a story? Taha Ebrahimi.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Collage of Tableau Public visualizations ( The Tableau Chart Catalog by Kevin Flerlage, The Tableau Chart Builder by Jeff Plattner, and It Started With A Viz | VOTD by Autumn Battani) and the Tableau Public homepage. Or how exciting it was anytime a journalist included any form of data analysis in a story? Taha Ebrahimi.

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Tableau

JULY 30, 2013

During his presentation at the Chicago TUG, he covers topics like knowing your audience, selecting chart types to tell a clear story, and his favorite resources. . In his presentation, Will share’s his Iron Viz build Tableau Prep Flow, the techniques used, and what improvements he would make now.

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Tableau

JULY 30, 2013

During his presentation at the Chicago TUG, he covers topics like knowing your audience, selecting chart types to tell a clear story, and his favorite resources. . In his presentation, Will share’s his Iron Viz build Tableau Prep Flow, the techniques used, and what improvements he would make now.

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