UK Government's Central Digital and Data Office has published a data maturity framework for central government, based on our long-established Data Maturity Framework.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for March. Data as music, carbon footprints, new board members, plus lots more...
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Pi Day is an opportunity to celebrate maths. As data folk, we like to do that as we work a lot with numbers. But it’s also widely used an excuse to eat pie. We were more than happy to do that too.
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Hannah Khwaja takes us through how she recently estimated Data Orchard's carbon footprint to help develop our environmental policy and a carbon reduction plan.
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Sian Basker, Co CEO at Data Orchard, explains how thinking of your data as music and your organisation as an orchestra is a useful metaphor for data maturity.
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We are delighted to welcome Noreen Blanluet, Manish Lad and Amanda Smith to Data Orchard's board this month.
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We're delighted that our co Chief Executives, Sian Basker and Madeleine Spinks, have both been listed in NatWest's WISE 100 list of Women in Social Enterprise this year.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for February. Living our values, how nonprofits use geodata, courses, events, news and more…
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Research shows that being values led is one of the main ways to build a safe organisational culture. With this in mind, our co-chief executives, Sian and Mads, took a closer look at how our core values are reflected in Data Orchard’s work and relationships.
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Sian Basker joined Matt Ballantine and Chris Weston on the WB-40 podcast to talk 'third sector data'. They spoke about everything from theories of change, to data literacy, to over-cooking your CRM system.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for January. Sharing best practice, plus data tools and training for the new year!
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Locating your organisation on the Data Maturity Framework is the basis of developing a data strategy and starting the journey to improving data in your organisation. Using the data maturity assessment tool repeatedly to track progress is the best way to keep up momentum on your improvement journey.
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In November we held a webinar 'The Joy and Pain of Data: A CEO's perspective', where three CEOs presented their data stories. We didn’t record the Q&A that followed, but it was so interesting we have pulled out some of the key points in this post.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for December. Taking a look at Data Orchard’s festive events and plans for the new year. Plus nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Data Map Wales is a recent Welsh Government service that allows people to search and visualise geographic data about Wales.
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For six months now I’ve been running a small side project. I collate a weekly list of data vacancies in nonprofits. Since it’s been six months and I work for a data social enterprise, I thought I would have a look at the data.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for November. Looking back over the year that was 2021-22 for Data Orchard, our upcoming special webinar for CEOs, and what data folk think about data culture. Plus events and other nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Our Co-Chief Executive Sian Basker reflects on the year that was 2021-22 for Data Orchard.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for October. It's been annual review/AGM time, and this has caused us to reflect lots this month on the particular challenges (and joys) data can bring to not-for-profits. Plus events and other nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian Basker, reflects on every CEO's very special relationship with data, especially at annual report writing time... The love and joy, the pain and frustration of wrestling all that data into the story your organisation wants to tell about its past, but also, its future.
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