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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this blog post, I will describe the process Wyman used to study how our organization historically captured, stored, used, and shared data, information, and knowledge and how developing a systemic Knowledge Management enterprise will increase our efficiency and performance. How does your organization learn and share knowledge?

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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the team’s Director of Knowledge Management he helps the team capture new insight, hone its toolkit, and pioneer new approaches. This blog post was originally published on the Working Wikily blog.

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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

The term is a play on “ organizational memory ” which is defined as is the accumulated body of data, information, and informal learning created in the course of an organization’s existence or known as “Knowledge Management.” Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning?

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

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This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists.