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6 Tips For Creating Better Charts With Your Nonprofit’s Data

TechImpact

Experiment with more dynamic charts, like social network maps, tree map, floating charts, and even infographics, which are great for a whole mess of charts. Ann recommends using tutorials if you are knew to working with graphs in Excel. There is a wide variety of charts. Sketch ideas. Use a strong tool. Showcase data.

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An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator

The Verge

The typo made its way into Microsoft’s Bing Maps data, which Asobo Studio, the developers behind Microsoft Flight Simulator , uses to map out the world in the game. Flight Simulator uses Azure-powered procedural generation technology, combined with Bing Maps data, to recreate virtual buildings like this 212-story obelisk.

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Marketing Automation: The Future of Fundraising for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) Donor Journey Mapping The path toward philanthropy can be long and sinuous, so many nonprofits create donor journey maps to plan and automate donor interactions. And a raft of tutorials and walkthroughs can help you get started. Better engagement means better results, and testing lets you fine-tune your marketing efforts.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You may remember that they also created the much replicated and shared Conversation Prism - a map to help communications, service, marketing, and community professionals more effectively navigate the many social media tools. Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips.

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Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social network maps, tree maps, and dot plots are some of the newest charts to enter the nonprofit field.† Social network maps are for visualizing relationships between people or organizations, like your nonprofit’s role in a nationwide advocacy campaign or your professional network as Andy Carvin did below. New to Excel?

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59 Useful Mobile Apps & Online Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

HTML Tutorial :: w3schools.com. Mapme is a web-based platform for creating, sharing, and embedding online maps. Using emoji on social media can increase engagement and when used in email subject lines, it can increase open rates. Get Emoji enables you to easy copy and paste emoji. Mapme :: mapme.com. OptInMonster :: optinmonster.com.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Strategy Mapping Selling : Business-to-business sales and marketing – advanced selling and marketing strategies for major and key account sales. Learn Ruby on Rails , an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language, with this ten step tutorial. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people.

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