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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

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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 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

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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 explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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

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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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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

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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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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.