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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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My Flickr Score

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After a cardio and yoga workout at the gym, spent a good part of the day obsessing about the design for an evaluation on mobile technology tools for health care outreach workers. I had used the commentors flickr photo - "CC BY license" and he stopped to say thanks. cambodia4kidsorg's flickr score: 3427.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

Communities share, pass on, and constantly expand a collective wisdom and knowledge from experiences, events, movements and legacy. In an organization, when someone leaves, that knowledge is lost, but with a community it is shared so consistently and constantly that it is harder for information to disappear.

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Minarae. As someone who works with nonprofits to build capacity in technology, one always hopes for transformational versus transactional results. Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant!

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The Nonprofit Data Ecosystem: How Does Your Data Flow?

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Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. Our hope is that this will be a help to you, as well, giving you a place to start to evaluate the systems your organization uses and how they connect. To do that, we need your help!

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