Big Data For The Consumer Journey
Jun 2013
Think of the different ways certain tech phenomena have reshaped the world: intermodal containers in the 50’s, the digitization of…
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You Knew It Was Coming: Big Data
Jun 2013
But we’ll let C.S. Lewis start this conversation, not the social sector or the data scientist: “Even in literature and…
BRIDGE to Somewhere
The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in…
Three Things About Three Words: Evaluation, Impact, Scale
May 2013
We could stop at this title and be bored silly as each of those words has its own familiar set…
A Listening Tour, A Call To Action
May 2013
If we focus long enough on a topic and attempt to uncover what is really going on, themes should emerge…
Talent, Not Technology, Is The Key To Better Evaluation
May 2013
Rounding out our conversation on evaluation is this view from the standpoint of technology, by David Henderson, founder of Idealistics….
The Customer is King
Steve Wright, Vice President, Poverty Tools and Insights at Grameen Foundation joins the discussion we raised yesterday on beneficiary insight….
MFG & Beneficiary Insight: A Discussion at the Core of the Work
May 2013
“Markets For Good aims to foster a robust conversation about how people in the social sector can better generate, share, and use information to make better decisions and improve lives.”
If You Build It, They Will Evaluate: Upping the Nonprofit Evaluation Game
Yes, we’re headed back to the cornfield. A discussion on tools and methods is one thing. The capacity and capability…
The Rising Tide Of Evidence-based Solutions
May 2013
115-200 billion tons moving daily. Not tons of data, but water – in and out of the Bay of Fundy…