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How can we prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leaders need to learn how to cultivate their personal networks, and know when and how to manage the time required to maintain these networks. This value network, or web of formal and informal relationships that must be managed, is the third level of network a leader needs to understand and articulate.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake. What Wyman did: We conducted 50 interviews in an organization with 33 full time staff.

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Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important. An example of the last point, is the Packard OE Wiki that has been dubbed “Public Learning.” This was the second time in a week that I heard this idea. Can increase effectiveness of the work.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the tactical and skills instruction we did with the social media staff on Day 3 and Day 4, we also covered how to manage time and work efficiently – and how to best provide support for the strategies. One participant told me that she never learned so much about social media in so short a time.

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

NTEN

Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Links Roundup - April 1-10

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. Tim Anderson tackles an issue I've troubled over in the back of my mind but never quite articulated. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet.