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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Ant Trails, Autumn, and Placement of Fences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, it is also clear where the fence or password protection belongs when the conversations needs to be internal. Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.). Innovation, creativity, momentum.

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Building a Culture of Experimentation

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Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design. Whenever an intern takes a prototype out on the floor, I ask her, “What might change about this project based on this test?”

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Creating A Culture of Continuous Improvement Based On Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

charity: water has truly mastered the art of getting people to form personal connections with their brand. It’s uncommon for a nonprofit to spend time developing and articulating their unique value proposition, but this is one area in which organizations should act like companies. Pencils of Promise is also very good at this.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. After a long day running around a science center, I would show up at the Worcester Art Museum in the evening and make $20 just to stand around and listen to a painting instructor talk about art.

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