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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” But you don’t know how people might use the knowledge that you have, until you put it out there.”.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. We see lost knowledge gobbling up time and money in our own organization and in the offices of our clients all the time. Rapid full text search is a very powerful natural language way to retrieve information. Why not at work?

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Identification of these factors marked the beginning of our journey to discover how to consistently capture and leverage knowledge, information, innovation, and data…of our constituents, our partners and our staff. We learned identifying and managing intellectual capital is your first step too. Define your Call to Action.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Other tech-related challenges include: making decisions based on data and evidence — something that only 34% of organizations say they “always” do — as well as designing programs and services using information about and engagement with recipients. A self-described “full-stack human,” she is an avid meditator and yogi.

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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The term is a play on “ organizational memory ” which is defined as is the accumulated body of data, information, and informal learning created in the course of an organization’s existence or known as “Knowledge Management.” How many of you take the time to do that with your groups?”

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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six initial observations have emerged as the most important: The substance of the peer learning experience should be of immediate use in the participants’ work—ideally an emerging area that needs attention where there is not yet a lot of information, and where the group can co-create material.