Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? technologies for knowledge sharing??? This issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2005

Michael Stein has written a piece entitled " Surfing the Knowledge Stream of Best Practices in Nonprofit Internet Use " In the article he shares the specific resources he reads every day. He includes blogs, along with email discussion forums and e-newsletters as three pillars of online knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

The KM4D Journal is produced by the KM4Dev-community and I was honored to participate on the editorial team for the the recently published issued on " Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development. The issues contains articles, case studies, interviews, and community notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." " I love seeing this through Loretta's lens of learning. But, as such, it's just grist for the learning mill - it's not yet learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” You might call what we’re doing Big Knowledge, or Big (Qualitative) Data. Sharing is in the air right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

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.” This understanding allows employees to seek out the right peers for information in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

Rather than knowledge ending where the miscellaneous begins, now it's beginning with the miscellaneous. (In 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. In your face, Aristotle!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

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 explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

I've been thinking alot about liveblogging at conferences and Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Events (as well as here ) Many of brilliant colleagues amplified my thinking outloud by adding some great insights of their own, including Nancy White , Chris Brogan , John Smith , Bev Traynor , Rob Cottingham , (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

And if that’s not enough, we’ll also be sharing a few of the latest and greatest user trainings on Salsa tools to quench your thirst for knowledge and skills. And if that’s not enough, we’ll also be sharing a few of the latest and greatest user trainings on Salsa tools to quench your thirst for knowledge and skills. Break time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In organizations, people struggle to capture knowledge and to find answers across organizational boundaries and silos. A new comfort with transparency combined with easy access to online social networking tools, makes it easy to share what we do, but also how we do it. Show Your Work by Jane Bozarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. Moments in which best practices, know-how, and insights are exchanged, streamlined stories are high leverage strategies to make knowledge memorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

Source: Tharum. Dear Nonprofit Tech Colleagues: I am seeking contributions of t-shirts for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. Participants will include bloggers who work for NGOS. When asked what I should pack in my suitcase , the response was "tech t-shirts." " I've also been cruising the blogs written by Cambodian colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

Knowledge is created through individual interactions. Patterns of participation impact knowledge flow. Social network analysis can reveal knowledge flows and roles. Knowledge in the networking (and relationship building). Work gets done through individual networks. Network analysis provides a new measurement tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The amount of knowledge and experience in attendance at last week’s Grantmakers’ Gathering on Networks was inspiring. Guest post by Gabriel Kasper The amount of knowledge and experience in attendance at last week’s Grantmakers’ Gathering on Networks was inspiring. Guest post by Gabriel Kasper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

Instead, it is important to consider how to channel human knowledge. The question to ask is: “How do we make the most of all of that knowledge, experience and expertise, even if the mechanical aspects of their work have gone away?”. Is your nonprofit using bots to do staff tasks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Board Connect lets you zero in on the right candidates with the right networks and knowledge for your nonprofit. Using Board Connect on LinkedIn allows you see past first connections on LinkedIn, check out a potential candidate’s knowledge and their connections. It streamlines the process. Board Connect changes all that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for peer knowledge sharing, but we hope to distinguish it from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

This process of going from individual’s insight to group’s ‘knowledge asset’ is a critical one. An excellent resource on the topic of Knowledge Assets is Geoff Parcell and Chris Collisons’ Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations. What will we do with the learning when we have it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Other times you will follow the community or network conversation on a topic. Harold Jarche describes this as “ knowledge filters.” Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? The path to scale requires excellence– but not across the board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

These include: Focus on Donor Empathy: Understanding the donors point of view and shaping engagement based on that knowledge. It is about creating an experience for the donor, not so much an ask based on what the staff or organization needs. Nonprofits are selling donors joy and passion through the experience of their donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Yut spoke fluent English, was a geek, and had in-depth knowledge of the Temples and other places visit in the area that matched our interests. ”) combined with expert knowledge made this a fantastic experience. He was engaging and also connected really well with our children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

This work is very inspiring because you are able share knowledge and learn about their work in protecting women’s rights. The goal is to get everyone comfortable, thinking about the content, and ready to enhance their preexisting knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Knowledge is not some sort of physical element that we can stack in a room somewhere and index easily. Knowledge is a concept that is rooted in the very fact that we are human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

I always start a panel with a living assessment of the audience to discover their experience, knowledge, and attitudes about the topic to be presented. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge. … Read More Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. It is basically a pause. It helps people process complex thoughts. If you are not using a design where participants do the scribing, you as a facilitator may lead a conversation AND be the chart writer.

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