Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Strategically enhancing address mapping during data integration using geocoding and string matching Many individuals in the big data industry may encounter the following scenario: Is the acronym “TIL” equivalent to the phrase “Today I learned” when extracting these two entries from distinct systems? 1: Capitalization (eg.

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Map Analysis Data API 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Facilitation Social Media Channel Reflection 99

NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. Community Map.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 17, 2021

It presents itself in the form of permission-based tools, such as device IDs, cookies, Geo-location, and IP mapping. You can even link a Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) that will facilitate tracking. For online marketers, there is customer behavior digital tracking.

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Track Digital Module Websites 246

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

People and Connections Map : Helps you map your network. Tell stories and make maps. Evidence Planning: Helps define outcomes for a project. Learning Loop: Develops a clear plan based on what has been done before. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas. This is not the only social design toolkit.

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Method Ideas Adopt Results 118

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Giving Anonymously - A non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people - "Giving Anonymously is a non-profit organization facilitating generosity between people. Giving to others in need can be full of mixed motivations and our hope is to facilitate Pure giving." You tell us, we add to the map."

Web 117

Web RSS Bookmarking Social Media 117

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Imagine turning your reading history into a treasure map. With AIs help, you can map out your own universe of awesome. Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years. Subscribe here.

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Movie Music Doc Analysis 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here. You can do a whole network analysis.

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Technique Network Tools Map 118

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Does anyone else miss paper maps? : A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. — Christine and Haje. Paul has more.

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Map Foundation Open Support 84

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’re helping facilitate a marketplace of equity buyers and equity sellers, and just creating that environment is helpful to the companies,” he told TechCrunch. TechCrunch+ roundup: Edtech market map, robotics fundraising, getting started with FinOps by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch.

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Map Marketing Fundraising Images 89

TechSpot

JANUARY 14, 2025

A tab labeled "Elon's map" stood out conspicuously, as other tabs lacked similar personalized names. This oddity sparked speculation that someone else might have curated the tab's contents to facilitate easier gameplay, allowing Musk. The stream began to raise eyebrows just 18 minutes in when Musk accessed his character's stash.

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Community Facilitation Map Stream 96

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This blog post was authored by Dawn Krause, who will be facilitating this week's webinar. Perhaps some organizations make it look simple, but behind the scenes there may be some sophisticated Esri tools that map disease outbreaks and aid distribution. Read more and register today !

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Map Impact Free Disaster 55

.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Teri Carden, Founder and CEO of 100 Reviews , facilitated a panel discussion on how to turn your next great idea into gold. Sharon will facilitate a 360-degree discussion about trust. You can’t use an old map to explore a new world,” is wisdom from Albert Einstein that Al uses to explain his perspective on navigating change. “To

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Culture Community Technology Professional 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Professional Network Learning Map 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique 2: Affinity Mapping. It also put us into a different mindset.

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Strategy Design Digital Technique 130

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

– "The goal of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set in spreadsheet form that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field."

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Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Network Nonprofit Map Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

My biggest problem as a facilitator was transitioning from the share pair back to full group. I tend to do a lot of "share pairs" where people get a chance to do a debrief with someone else in the room. It helps people process what they are learning. I had been using chimes.

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Social Media Media Map Social 90

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language.

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Collaboration Marketing Integration Trend 221

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. We’ll invite three participants to serve as case studies, break up into small groups and collectively map out an online strategy.

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Proposal NTEN Louisiana Campaign 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. Following this exercise, I facilitated an affinity map of the themes on the wall.

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Foundation Community Design Work 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Instead, tools focused on systems-thinking/ visualizing, network-mapping, asset-based inquiry, collaboration, collective strategy, and technology-enhanced connectivity are needed. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising).

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Change Build Social Facilitation 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad).

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Mind Social Media Media Wikispaces 101

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Vote for your local organization: Some cities have already chosen the organization and others need local people to vote, so use the map on the Twestival site to find your city’s Twestival page to learn more! It is up to each city team to facilitate nominations and the selection process using the Twestival guidelines.

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Local Twitter Map Causes 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction? Are there tips not on the mind map? I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.”

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits. The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results.

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Google Adwords Nonprofit DC 122

Whole Whale

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Feel free to *borrow* because we can’t work with everyone.

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Metrics Marketing Social Media Analytics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

John Kenyon

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Activities: Facilitating learning for the board, management and staff 2. Activities: Providing examples of how nonprofits use these tools, facilitating discussions on how your organization is already using them and might use them in the future 3. They generate content by using works without permission.

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Practice Nonprofit Articulate Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. Once participants do a low tech drawing, we move to explore some of the online mapping and SNA tools to visualize online networks. Radio Bilingue.

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Social Media Measure Social Media 107

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. After mapping the community and identifying shared goals you can focus on, you can start identifying the online tools and technologies that the community (especially when you break it down into segments) already uses, for what, why, and how.

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Library Community Model Collaboration 241

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Indeed, that was my theme for the day given that I facilitated a couple of morning conversations on that topic and then in the afternoon heard Ify Mora from the Barr Foundation ( [link] ) talk about how they use social network mapping to capture the relationships that have been built through their innovative Fellows Program.

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Relationship Measure Impact Build 94

Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

Data visualization uses graphs, maps, and other graphics to communicate complex information more effectively. For example, for users who want to compare the LTSS programs with other states, we built a clickable map that shows all the states and their performance tiers. Why is data visualization so effective?

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Story Data Chart Nonprofit 52

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

there a high degree of facilitation that’s involved; there’s a natural fear from the service side of fear from the outside, so there has to be real facilitation to get sustainable change and not just reaction. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. Learn more at [link].

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Gift Wikipedia Case Study Facilitation 108

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator. The way we choose tools based on our networks/friends' choice is really clear when you map it like this! If you are going to be in London July 6 - check this out! You can also follow it online at @RebootBritain and elsewhere.

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Web Bookmarking Social Network Delicious 100