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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. 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.

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Fear 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With the "I'm sticking with DOS" button analogy, I'm probably showing my age, but new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist. Yet, at the time, people were questioning "How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus? Anyone still using it?

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tony affirms the value of blogging for individuals and the organization, "As people begin to blog and it captures their ideas, thoughts, what they've read, done, etc. it becomes a wonderful resource for any organization to leverage as part of larger knowledge management solutions."

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers.

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