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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Consider how you can support more robust knowledge sharing. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. What is a knowledge sharing network? Knowledge is a lofty word. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks?

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment. Would that skill be easy to outsource?

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects. This information can help set the stage for potential partnerships and field-wide sharing of knowledge.

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Why You Need a Content Strategy

Forum One

Your content strategy should be used to inform content creation and migration planning, wireframing, and placement of content in the design and development stages. The purpose of a content strategy is to map out the goals for your website and the content that will help achieve the messaging for each section. Clear calls-to-action.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The geek in me feels what has not gotten sufficient attention in these stories is the underlying technical architecture – some built, some being upgraded – that enables stories and information to circumnavigate the world.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1. Rather than knowledge ending where the miscellaneous begins, now it's beginning with the miscellaneous. (In In your face, Aristotle!). (I Technorati Tag: nptech