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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Aug 15, 2008
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I've added a new blog to the blogroll on the right-hand side of this page: Reporting Statistics . It calls itself "Just a blog from a writer with some statistics to share" and "The Blog with the Search Engine for Statistics." I'd like to encourage you to visit the blog, and not just because...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Apr 22, 2008
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The Advancing Government Accountability group -- http://www.agacgfm.org/homepage.aspx -- has added a new feature to their website. Here's the news: AGA's blog is a new feature on our AGA website ( www.agacgfm.org ) that uses a variety of guest "speakers" to set the stage for the...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Mar 16, 2008
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This blog has now been existence for one year. I thought you might be interested in the blog statistics to date. Number of articles posted: 320 Number of visits: 9,285 Number of page views: 16,169 Number of unique visitors: 7,492 Visitors came from 113 countries Top ten countries, by number of...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Feb 13, 2008
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We've been talking about how to use information to tell community stories more effectively. One key aspect is engaging the media so that they can use your community indicators reports in shaping community understanding of the issues and promoting accountability for action. (You did read this...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Jan 10, 2008
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I wanted to take a moment and thank you for your participation in this experiment in creating a blog all about community indicators. I joke with friends that I have created perhaps the most boring blog on the internet (and there's some pretty stiff competition!), and I worried that I'd run out of...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Dec 7, 2007
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I enjoyed the conversation at the Beyond GDP conference on socially responsible investing . If you like the topic, here's a blog you might like. The KLD Blog is geared towards conversations around sustainable investing, which they call "the integration of environmental, social and governance...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Dec 4, 2007
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I really liked the description of what the Northwest Indiana Quality of Life Indicators Report has to say about the community. The Northwest Indiana Quality of Life Council has been using the indicators to promote progress in the region, and asks in this article published by the Michigan...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Oct 1, 2007
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Andrew Savitz and Karl Weber, who wrote the book The Triple Bottom Line , now have a blog about triple bottom lines . We've talked about the triple bottom line approach before . This is the effort to develop corporate sustainability reports that measure the company's economic, social, and...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 29, 2007
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I had mentioned the Social Science Statistics blog earlier , but since the blog is more active now after summer vacation, I thought I'd bring it to your attention again. It's from the nice people at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Here's why you should pay attention to it,...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 29, 2007
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I have to pass on one more item from Harvard's Social Science Statistics Blog . The article -- " How Do You Get 7,000,000 Cell Phone Records? " -- discussed this presentation by David Lazer. Wow. We've been talking about big numbers and new data sources and using traditional data in new...... [view]
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