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

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In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. This understanding allows employees to seek out the right peers for information in the future.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Jane Hart: Jane has been blogging for many years and writes about informal and workplace learning.

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Lee Bryant at #KMUK10

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I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. Value of knowledge is contextual and relative – trying to give it value is a mistake; instead focus on the value of having it and sharing it. We need to free up knowledge in order to have healthier networks to work with.

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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s a form of network building. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. This blog post was originally published on the Working Wikily blog.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

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Partners include: The Center for Effective Philanthropy , The Communications Network , Global Philanthropy Forum , Grantmakers for Effective Organizations , and One World Trust. It also provides a knowledge management function since each magnifying glass icon takes the viewer directly to the relevant page on the foundation’s website.

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Geographic Silo Busting: NGO Capacity Building in the South

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Within two seconds, I found a fascinating article called " ICTs, capacities and networks " by Peter Ballantyne and Denise Clarke. The summary: "This article considers the collective capabilities of networks in relation to their use of ICTs, information and knowledge management. that a network makes to its members."

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0