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The enduring value of lessons learned

Candid

Across the social sector, there’s one thing we can all agree on: data and knowledge are crucial to our collective success. Anyone can freely search the collection and access full-text documents. . If you're new to Issue Lab or haven't hung out on the platform in a while, here's what's on offer. .

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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

This document ensures that everyone in an organization is on the same page when it comes to using language in a way that is respectful and accurate. A style guide is a document that provides standards for writing and speaking. However, there are some general principles that should be taken into account when creating such a document.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. We see lost knowledge gobbling up time and money in our own organization and in the offices of our clients all the time. So I suspect Phil's approach to knowledge management is going to become more popular in the next few years.

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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?” But you don’t know how people might use the knowledge that you have, until you put it out there.”.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” There are two repositories: an organization archives – reports, data, and documented knowledge which is more and more in electronic format and individuals’ memories (if they are still working for the organization.) .” ” Documentation and learning are the treatment for organizational amnesia.

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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

." Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?"

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. How does your organization learn and share knowledge? Create a Staff Engagement Strategy. Guest Post'

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