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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

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Can your team take advantage of the new breed of knowledge management tools? The knowledge and experience its people bring will determine its institutional knowledge and dictate the direction in which it needs to head. This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable. Tacit knowledge.

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Knowledge Management and Global Development: Who, What, and How

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This week, I attended a working group meeting at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs that focused on knowledge management in the international development sector. read more.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Like many nonprofits, the rapidly evolving environment around and within us was littered by a practice of ad hoc documentation and person to person knowledge sharing. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice.

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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

In a mission-based organization, many problems that initially appear to be about information and communication technology are really about organizational culture, knowledge management, or a combination of organizational culture and knowledge management. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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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?” You might call what we’re doing Big Knowledge, or Big (Qualitative) Data.

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? This issue.

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Call for Abstracts: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy in South Africa

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This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy. The promise of the knowledge economy has attracted the interest of national governments both in advanced industries and developing economies.