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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our hotline acted as a clearinghouse to connect anyone seeking legal help with other resources in the legal aid network. In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. Through Salesforce, we began to build our vision of one legal aid network to help all of Illinois.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 social capital encourages employees to turn to colleagues to get useful assistance or advice about future initiatives.

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The enduring value of lessons learned

Candid

Across the social sector, there’s one thing we can all agree on: data and knowledge are crucial to our collective success. Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations.

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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. She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks.

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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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Lee Bryant at #KMUK10

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. David Wilcox will be spending the day helping show folks understand and get started with various social media tools. We need to free up knowledge in order to have healthier networks to work with. From Lee Bryant: KM = sense making.

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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.