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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

In a mission-based organization, many problems that initially appear to be about information and communication technology are really about organizational culture, knowledge management, or a combination of organizational culture and knowledge management. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use. How to set aside time for reflection and 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 explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

Some of the biggest ideas borne out of necessity revolved around fundraising and donor retention. They were open to a fresh approach, new ideas, so they really just threw themselves into it.”. Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce Customer and Market Insights team. In the U.K.,

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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

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Unfortunately, organizational memory is short, and without a way to capture knowledge and learning, they become lost. .

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Knowledge in the Public Interest Announces Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via an email from Diania Woolis The KPI blog will explore diverse facets of knowledge management practice, research, and theory -- from community of practice (COP) strategy, to emerging technologies, to conferences and events taking place around the world. And for many, it was somewhere in between.

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? The path to scale requires excellence– but not across the board.