March 28, 2014
To close our data visualization (dv) series, guest-curated by Greta Knutzen (GK), we are, well… kicking the tires on an earthmover. There’s a lot of content here (worth the ride!) in this round-table interview with the Office of Creative Research, a newly established design agency responsible for some of the...
March 18, 2014
NiJeL is next up in our series of interviewswith people and organizations on the frontlines of data visualization work. The idea is to bring a focused perspective on the practices and tools that are shaping the way we use data visualization and the broader conversation about it. NiJeL partners with...
December 10, 2013
Carly Pippin of Measuring-Success …”We’ve seen a valuable lesson emerge from collaborations between school districts, faith-based groups, and city-wide non-profits: there is no social return without a little WIIFM -‘What’s in it for me?’ How could this be appropriate for achieving social return? Isn’t the whole point of social good...
October 23, 2013
Frieda Werner, Wheelmap's product and community manager, writes about the conscious choice to make open data the center of their business model.
October 8, 2013
The following mini-interview is a follow-up to this article: 5 Transformational Forces That Should Be Driving The Social Sector (But Aren’t). The web is full of insightful statements. It’s more difficult to find the discussions that follow them as they most often take place offline and in our heads. We...
August 13, 2013
“Although the cultural, legal and technical barriers to releasing data within government are real and need to be negotiated, there has been a clear public commitment to doing so. And when we started talking to the Ministry of Justice a couple of years ago, we found we were pushing at...
July 24, 2013
Bathing in social media, we might just be tempted to think we know it. There are a lot of folks out there doing amazing things with it, but the fact is, the curve is still steep. We’re learning a lot, every day. Further, the numbers and the noise lessen considerably...
July 15, 2013
It is impossible to reach your fundraising potential today without a timely consciousness of market dynamics followed by an agenda to gain targeted awareness and relationships. Judy Levine, VP of Marketing & Engagement for Salesforce.com Foundation, walks us through the current landscape. …
June 4, 2013
Think of the different ways certain tech phenomena have reshaped the world: intermodal containers in the 50’s, the digitization of music in the early 80’s, the web of the early 90’s. Today, big data is a type of summary event, an omnivore fed by the old and new, the physical...
May 21, 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."
