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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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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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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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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.) I found a blog post called “ The Dangers of Organizational Amnesia ” by Darcy Jacobson.

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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Find me in my “office”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

NTEN

used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. What I saw, introducing it to two law firms, was that the resistance faded quickly once the system was in place, and users had such better tools to find and work with their documents.