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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. read more.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

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

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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning.

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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. " Several of the session topics look very interesting.

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

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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?”