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Candid updates its taxonomy with community input 

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid released a new version of its taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS). What are the benefits of Candid’s updated taxonomy? Addition of child terms will allow for a more granular understanding of an issue, including where funding is going and which organizations are working on what.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

7: Your Taxonomy Isn’t Organized In a Useful Way Challenge : Digital closets are a lot like physical closets. Whatever the case, if your organization doesn’t keep your taxonomy tidy, you’ll spend more time querying and comparing reports than finding the data you need the first time. Focus on what matters to operational outcomes (ex.

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy.

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The shift from talent intelligence to work intelligence  

Fast Company Tech

While talent intelligence platforms (TIPs) serve an important purpose in identifying skills, they are inherently limited and never designed to address the fundamental question: How is work itself structured and how is it changing? Its not just creating new skill gapsits redefining work at its core.

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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

I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.

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How to Use Data to Drive Your Content Strategy

Association Analytics

Organize or create a taxonomy for your content. If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. This will only work if taxonomy and tags are uniform. When a solid taxonomy is implemented correctly, it can improve your site’s SEO.

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How people secured their secrets before encyption

Fast Company Tech

The features were fascinating on their own, but understanding how they worked also seemed crucial to preserving the documents, ensuring that these security aspects wouldnt be inadvertently lost during repairs. Step by step drawing showing how the John Donnes oculus lock works. Images: Folger Shakespeare Library, L.b.

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