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Navigating the Future: How AGU Leverages Technology to Advance Earth and Space Sciences

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But understanding who those members are, why the numbers are shifting, and observing the entire picture over a longer time provides knowledge that you won’t find in a report or a spreadsheet.” Looking at a spreadsheet and seeing that you have 10 percent more members than you did last year is helpful.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Consider how you can support more robust knowledge sharing. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. What is a knowledge sharing network? Knowledge is a lofty word. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks?

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment. Would that skill be easy to outsource?

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. ” And this week, some attendees at the GEO conference were treated to Katherine Fulton of Monitor Institute’s discussion of networks and their relationship to technology.

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Outcomes & Social Investing: Key Themes for Funders

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And that’s the experience I had last week in Austin, TX, attending the MicroEdge Solutions Conference. With MicroEdge now a part of Blackbaud, there were two conferences going on at the same time. Being around my peers in giving just does that to me. I do admit to being pulled in a few directions. It’s a win-win.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I do think that there are some discoverable values that are hard coded into any online platform.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

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We have a fantastic opportunity to leverage all the knowledge in our community and get lots of expert feedback along the way. Have a taxonomy horror story? I am excited about being really open about our approach and our processes, both as a way to get a great product out there and as a learning tool. Design triumph?