I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand. The camp was organized by Thai … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Arts Organizations Digital Strategies Master Class and Train the Trainers
[slideshare id=20600786&doc=slides-130505171257-phpapp02] I'm teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab. The second year in 2011, we did two sets of peer groups using workshops, action learning projects, and micro … [Read more...]
Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources
[slideshare id=20052210&doc=making-datavis-survival-guide-130426191415-phpapp01] As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm facilitating a peer learning group based on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. This part of the measurement process is most the fun because it covers visualization, pattern recognition, and reflection. I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out … [Read more...]
Does Your Nonprofit Need (free) Help from A Data Scientist?
This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world. They are displayed here using new data visualization tool called Google Fusion Tables technology. I discovered while browsing through the gallery wondering if any of this … [Read more...]
