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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

Can your team take advantage of the new breed of knowledge management tools? The knowledge and experience its people bring will determine its institutional knowledge and dictate the direction in which it needs to head. This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable.

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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. If you're looking for funding, an issue-area and/or geography driven search will generate dozens of recently published works. If your interests are location-specific, add a geo-location filter into the mix. .

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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

Many people will be involved in creating content and it is important to have a guide to ensure consistency. Explaining why certain language choices are important: It’s not enough to just tell people what language to use – it’s important to explain why certain language choices are important. Next Steps.

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Using our heads

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In a couple of posts a few weeks ago, I warned that information that is just in people's heads and not shared organizationally cannot be considered organizational knowledge, and suggested the reuse of routine communications as a path to capturing this knowledge in a way that does not create endless new documentation tasks.

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Fear 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With the "I'm sticking with DOS" button analogy, I'm probably showing my age, but new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist. Yet, at the time, people were questioning "How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus? Anyone still using it?

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

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. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa.