Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

014: Turning Mobile Ads into Social Impact with Charity Miles

Charity Miles is an amazing fitness app that is also raising money for non-profits through ads. We learn about what it takes to create an app for social change.

013: Using technology and data to make voting easier

Democracy Works & TurboVote, Co-founder Seth Flaxman talks about using data and technology to help people vote via mail. 

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012: What Teach for America can teach us about Yammer

Learn how Teach For America has been able to use Yammer to increase communication, knowledge sharing, and deepen relationships across the country. Find more yammer resources at Whole Whale.

011: Why Pagespeed matters to DoSomething.org

Site pagespeed is a key performance indicator that DoSomething.org's tech team uses to make sure everything is running well. Learn how many things this one small metric impacts!

010: DoSomething.org About Managing a Tech Team

Discussion with Matt Holford the CTO of DoSomething.org about agile project management and how he approached his new role over the past year.

009: Quality Assurance Testing that Changes Lives - with the SpecialistGuild.org

We discuss web quality assurance (QA) testing with Andy from the SpecilistGuild.org. 

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008: Feeding Hungry Children with Text Messages

We talk with Jason Wilson from No Kid Hungry about their text message program. 

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007: Using Big Data to Drive Big Impact

Interview with Stefan, the CEO of Sumall.org. Discussion about how we can identify the right data that is close to our programmatic activity to drive impact. 

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006: Poetry, Prison and Algorithms

We talk with Roland Legiardi-Laura the ED of PowerPoetry.org about how they became the largest teen poetry platform in the US. Find out what the literacy gap has to do with incarceration and how we can use an algorithm to begin to quantify poetry.  

005: Water into Wine into Data

The Miracle Machine turns water into wine in just three days! The only hiccup, it's a hoax, a hoax that garnered over 500m impressions for the non-profit Winetowater.org. We talk with Chris Noble of Cause Media & Studio Good, about what we can learn from creating the press wave and how to gather usable data.

Read the show notes at: http://wholewhale.com/episode-5-turning-water-wine-data