Ever wanted to find out Colorado’s birth statistics statewide? How about cancer rates? Maybe population data?
Well now you can! Check out coloradoopendata.org

Open Colorado is an online source of government data that each and every Colorado citizen can access. Their slogan “liberating public data for private use” really says it all. The goal of Open Colorado is to make the plethora of public government data, well, public!

Can't decide which form of social media to use for your organization? Does tweeting seem to cut it? Think blogging might be the best option?

Well, here it is: The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide!

After 6 months of preparation, Idealware has released their Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. Learn what option makes the most sense for your organization via a workbook, guide, and the results of the months of research!

there are some really cool things happening!

Here's a list of upcoming events & happenings:

PowerPoint - Intro & Intermediate

Cover the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint (2007) and learn to add new slides, work with the text, use design templates, insert graphics, and much more!

Wednesday, July 28

9 - 11am
Mile High United Way, Denver, CO
Cost: $10 for nonprofit staff & volunteers
More info: http://www.t4tcolorado.org/calendar/event/1157

Excel Basics

Tonight, July 6, BDNT is hosting "A Night of Participation".

It’s a simple way to get major karma points, so you can slack off for the rest of the summer.

The nights agenda:
We are lining up multiple NonProfits who will present New Tech style, but with a twist. Once all of the groups are finished on the podium, 2 minutes each instead of 5, then it's time to start generating those karma points by solving the NonProfits tech issues.

What to bring:
Your laptops, power chords and favorite IDE. New Tech will provide the beer, pizza and late night snacks.

On-Camera Teleprompter Workshop!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
6 - 9pm

Not feeling too confident in front of the camera? Struggle when reading from a teleprompter? Do you get flustered with last-minute script changes? Well if so, then this workshop is for you!

Learn more at:
http://www.denveropenmedia.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=91

Use Collaborative Technology Tools in your Business Strategy!

Thursday, July 1, 2010
7:30-10am

Thanks to everyone who attended our July 7th meetup, "Social Media Planning and Monitoring". We had a full house. Overfull, really. Most everyone was using social media with their organizations and clients, and a few veterans have been using it for a year or more. Some were already doing a bit of monitoring and shared their tools and thoughts, and we had a helpful presentation on social media planning by the Denver DataMan, Steve Kessler.

May 5th, Denver-area nonprofit staff and technical consultants met to discuss web-based mapping and view a few interesting projects.

General Notes

Some of the most difficult work is not the mapping, but getting the data together and convincing people to cooperate.

Sometimes you just need a good one-off way to map 1 or 10 or 100 addresses, not a full data integration setup.

Always keep the end user and their needs in mind. Know your audience. Keep the interface simple. Don't design autocad for the web; most people will be confused by maps and sites with a million features.

Here are some links I drudged up tonight just for anyone who has a few moments of spare time. Which...comes rarely these days for me. I'd love to chat about any of them if the mood swings that way.

1. NetSquared Interview from last year with a major BI vendor.

http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/business-intelligence-nonprof...

2. Blackbaud white paper on "Business intelligence for nonprofits." Perhaps defunct now. I couldn't find a straight link like I could last year. But the marketing material is still useful I think.

(This was originally posted to the NTEN Data Warehousing group list, by Nate Wilbert. Nate has kindly allowed us to publish his work here.)

I received an email today about an NTEN webinar with the headline "Bust Those Silos: Reporting Across Multiple Systems." This was interesting to me because I thought, great! Someone is going to talk about data warehousing! Well, not quite I think.

(This was originally posted to the NTEN Data Warehousing group list, by Nate Wilbert. Nate has kindly allowed us to publish his work here.)

I've actually been working with a particular set of tools in the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing space the past 7 or 8 months. I've worked in the past with many different BI reporting tools like MicroStrategy (a ROLAP tool), Oracle's Hyperion Interactive Reporting and Oracle's BI Enterprise Edition (the old Siebel Analytics ROLAP tool). I've also briefly worked with others like Business Objects and Oracle Discoverer.