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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While our field is very good at making sure staff spend sufficient time developing strategies and making grants, we are not yet as good at making sure that staff spend sufficient time on reflection, learning and the “back end” of the process, i.e., digesting grant reports, discussing them with grantees and disseminating results.

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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. The project grew out of the Council on Foundations and led by one part-time staff person, executive director Lisa Pool. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars.

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

NTEN

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). If you burst into your Executive Director's office to tell her that "RHEL 3.0 to get success stories. is going end-of-life!",

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Tech Planning Tips for Every Nonprofit or Library

Tech Soup

Julie Elmore, library director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (Indiana). The Director's Perspective. Julie Elmore is the library director of the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library in Indiana and its only full-time employee. Professional development strategy. Our guests for this webinar were.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.” Facebook reported yesterday that 1.2

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How You Can Participate in United We Serve This Summer

Have Fun - Do Good

While I was at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service this week, I went to a session about United We Serve with Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement, and Carlos Monje, Senior Policy Advisor, White House Domestic Policy Counsel. Share your story about your summer service project.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. The project grew out of the Council on Foundations and led by one part-time staff person, executive director Lisa Pool. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars.