I absolutely love the fact that I'm writing a part two of a story that I
reported a few months back about the dashboard we offered to the
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research organization for them to measure the effectiveness of the charity events.
Well, I just heard back from
Owen yesterday:
Hey Pedro(s), Nuno, Paulo & the rest of team
We entered the Bikeathon dashboard into for an industry award. The best use of Performance Reporting and Data Visualisation at the Institute of Fundraising Insight Awards. The award ceremony was last night and I’m really happy to say we won the gold award. We couldn’t have done this without you (you never saw my pre-webdetails dashboard, no one will again). I’ve attached the award booklet, open source and Pentaho get a good mention but I’m sorry that they’ve edited out Webdetails (you were prominent in the nomination).
Excitingly, of the 15 Gold awards we’re one of 4 that also been shortlisted for the Best Use of Insight at the bigger awards in July. So that’s the dashboard for us up against any research project from charities more than 10x as big as us.
We’ll be tweeting/shouting about it later today, if you/Pentaho want to put anything out give me a shout and I can help.
Thanks again everyone, your work has made an impact on the event and having an impact beyond it too
Cheers,
This made my day! I immediately ran to see his twitter account and it was there:
The Beating Blood Cancer organization really came out first in the
Insight and Fundraising Awards 2014, and are now moving to the National Awards "against" the big guys!
(and I really need to tone down my extremely competitive personality, cause I found myself thinking "Go
LLR team!, let's beat
Unicef and
Save the Children!", which made me feel instantly silly! :p )
And it's good to see this kind of initiatives scaling out. Dan Keeley - Codek - is also doing some
pro-bono work with them and
Pentaho offered the organization a license for the Enterprise Edition!
Keep doing the great work guys!
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