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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

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.” She points a few trends making our individual AND organizational memories shorter.

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4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Forum One

Different types of nonprofits will have different needs — e.g., associations are different businesses than research and policy institutes — so do what is more directly connected to your mission and goals. Change management is quite simply a proactive approach to managing change in an organization’s processes, goals, or technologies.

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Help a Nonprofit Cross the Digital Divide This Summer

Tech Soup

You're reading the TechSoup blog, so you're probably already comfortable with using technology in your work. But there are millions of nonprofit staffers who don't have the skills to use technology to do more good. Los Angeles, California: Summer Event in the Works on Technology-Business­-Social Responsibility.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. Governance Policies & Information.

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Evernote for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

While Convio is not affiliated with or a partner of Evernote in anyway, both of us are passionate about nonprofits and technology and thought we’d share a few ideas about how this application can help nonprofit professionals. Manuals and Policies: A shared Evernote folder can be a great place to store manuals and policy documents.

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Geographic Silo Busting: NGO Capacity Building in the South

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm trying to break out of my geographic silo and cross some boundaries as it pertains to ngo and nonprofit technology resources. It is described as "a web magazine-cum-portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South." Back to the article.

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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. s so much easier and cheaper than earlier knowledge management attempts." policies and usage guidelines."

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