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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Jarche also points to James Mangan who identified several skills for acquiring knowledge in 1936 (via Maria Popova ). Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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NTEN Is Hiring an Educational Program Manager

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Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. This position will be critical to adding a higher level of quality and evaluation to NTEN’s various educational offerings. The NTC is just 146 days away.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? What is on your To Do List for 2011? Re-evaluating our Facebook strategy. Because we know they will! Being a social media enthusiast yourself. There is such an intense learning curve with social media.

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Employee engagement: Keeping the right people

ASU Lodestar Center

Last year, Opportunity Knocks commissioned a report 1 to evaluate this question of engagement across the nonprofit workforce. Provide management skills training. Acknowledge the skill and difficult in emotion work. Dianna Schwartz is a 2011 graduate of the Public Allies program at the ASU Lodestar Center. Encourage input.

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