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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

Can your team take advantage of the new breed of knowledge management tools? The knowledge and experience its people bring will determine its institutional knowledge and dictate the direction in which it needs to head. This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable. Tacit knowledge.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Like many nonprofits, the rapidly evolving environment around and within us was littered by a practice of ad hoc documentation and person to person knowledge sharing. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice.

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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The nonprofit/philanthropic sector in Massachusetts is different from the analogous sector in any other state in the U.S.A. Carefully tailored one-to-one desk-side coaching usually increases a worker’s effectiveness much more quickly than classroom training. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” You might call what we’re doing Big Knowledge, or Big (Qualitative) Data.

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4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Forum One

It serves as the digital face of your organization and is the main source of knowledge about the programs and issues you work on. This global ecosystem serves as the digital brand and voice of your organization, as well as the main source of knowledge about the programs and issues you work on, and the audience you are reaching.

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Eight Principles of Sustainable Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

When the external community sees your staff using a community platform, a knowledge management resource, or another shared online space it says to them that the organization actually cares and is invested in both collaboration and the resource itself. So why would it be any different with fundraising!

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Knowledge in the Public Interest Announces Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via an email from Diania Woolis The KPI blog will explore diverse facets of knowledge management practice, research, and theory -- from community of practice (COP) strategy, to emerging technologies, to conferences and events taking place around the world. Wonder if there is anything different from the findings here.