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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For me, this ‘how to’ approach put some practical meat on the bones of the conversation around scaling impact that resonated through halls the at the GEO conference this week. Adene represents the foundation’s learning about networks, organizational growth strategies and knowledge management. The session did not disappoint.

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NTEN Community Update: CoP Transition

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The Community Technology CoP and the Knowledge Management CoP have both already taken advantage of the newly available monthly calls. The two events, Building and Maintaining a Digital Literacy Corps and A Conversation with IdeaEncore about Resource Sharing , were both recorded. Becoming a Community of Practice is easy.

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My Panel Introduction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attempted to live blog my introduction to demonstrate how easy it is to blog. I spoke about how useful a blog was for my own personal knowledge management working as a technology consultant. I talked about how I use my blog to "work things out" for myself.

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. This process of going from individual’s insight to group’s ‘knowledge asset’ is a critical one. What will we do with the learning when we have it?

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

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From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations. Start planting the seed now for including someone in those conversations who can bring a strategic technology perspective, whether it's you or one of your colleagues. The first step is to understand how your organization is structured, and how it views technology.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. It was pretty much good, old-fashioned organizing. We had tables at nonprofits conferences and at some of the strategy cabinet sites.

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