“Storified” Data Collection: Making the Most of Your Results by Sidney R. Hargro of the Community Foundation of South Jersey | Community Techknowledge

“Storified” Data Collection: Making the Most of Your Results by Sidney R. Hargro of the Community Foundation of South Jersey | Community Techknowledge: Use Data Visualization

As digital strategist and nonprofit executive Debra Askanase suggests, data visualization is a very useful form of storytelling for nonprofits. Every day “creative quantification” is on display across social media platforms to encourage us to contemplate the breadth or depth of a social issue.

Virtual game of life | Bangkok Post: business

Virtual game of life | Bangkok Post: business: Lessons learned in the world of video shoot-em-ups and simulations, it turns out, could have some powerful practical applications in the game of life.

The belief has given rise to a new field of research, which the IT industry has dubbed "gamification".

The idea is to apply game-design thinking to non-game applications, explains Carlos Dominguez, a senior vice-president of Cisco Systems, the US-based networking firm.

He said better knowledge of the way people react to and interact with games could help businesses increase efficiency, customer loyalty or engagement.

4 Ground Rules of Facebook Fundraising : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success

4 Ground Rules of Facebook Fundraising : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success: The following is based on the Derrick Feldmann's session, "4 Ground Rules of Facebook Fundraising — Hint: Fundraising is Not the Primary Goal," which he presented yesterday afternoon at the AFP TechKnow ConferenceOpens in a new window in Orlando, Fla.)

Is Social Media Right for Your Organization?

Is Social Media Right for Your Organization?: Last month, an anonymous reader asked this question in response to "Who's in Charge of Communications These Days?"

The article confirms what I already knew: my all volunteer group is going to whither on the vine because we have no staff at all. I am 56, not of the social media generation and have to choose between my existing duties (running our small cat rescue) I can't be monitoring 4 different social media sites, blogging & doing what I need. WHAT ARE WE TO DO?

"Wow," we thought, "great question." And then we turned around and posed it to the article's author and four other nonprofit social media leaders. Here's what they said.