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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

Can your team take advantage of the new breed of knowledge management tools? The knowledge and experience its people bring will determine its institutional knowledge and dictate the direction in which it needs to head. This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable. Tacit knowledge.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Define your Call to Action.

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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Movements for equity, inclusion, and belonging have the potential to revolutionize both mission-based organizations and philanthropy. Poverty is an insufficient reward for devoting one’s professional life to a nonprofit organization. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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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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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I've been searching for that for a half an hour. -- See, your problem is you try to be totally organized, so when something is misfiled, it might as well be gone. Don't organize, search! And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. But I'm always a total mess.

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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because the truth is, it’s a lot easier to declare that one wants to have a “learning organization” than to actually do it. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process. It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation.