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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because the truth is, it’s a lot easier to declare that one wants to have a “learning organization” than to actually do it. But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning.

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Essential Strategies for Your Foundation’s Next Website Redesign

Forum One

Your digital ecosystem , which encompasses all of your digital properties, including your website(s), engagement channels, and technical support platforms, allows for a number of entry points through which your target audiences think and feel about your organization. One effective way is to take an agile approach to change management.

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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. To be sure, there must be a baseline for all organizations looking to scale. The session did not disappoint. Want to scale through advocacy?

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

NTEN

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

NTEN

used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. Some excellent resources emerged from this discussion, so I thought I'd share highlights here and invite you to join the conversation on the NTEN Discuss list. (If Humans are trouble.

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How Does Your Website Redesign Fit Into Your Larger Digital Ecosystem?

Forum One

Many organizations look at their upcoming website redesign as a separate, standalone project. As your organization begins to tackle its next website redesign, keep the context of your larger digital ecosystem top of mind. Your organization deserves better. Website conversions. Holistic data collection. Member behavior.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Nonprofit Management / @BoardSource. Nonprofit Management. It features valuable opportunities for executives, senior management, and board members.