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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

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In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. What if we created systems for shadowing each other and for practicing the skills we need to be effective?

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

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. These typically translate into leadership, passion and culture, and analytical capacity and systems. Have we thought about what we might need in order to get there?

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Bullet Journaling for Nonprofit Professionals

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Note from Beth: At last year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky enough to join a “birds of a feather” lunch table. Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” What is the Bullet Journal System? BuJo is a personal tool.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. 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.

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Call for Abstracts: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy in South Africa

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This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy. The other topic that strikes me is 'Developing Knowledge Management Expertise in Third World Countries.' Full details are available on the conference website. . Lots to learn here!

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

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He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He Development Conference in Rome last September). tools in different cultures around the world. He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

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Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Wa wa, wa wa wa wa.)

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