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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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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Murphy offers this advice to other nonprofits that want to set up an employee champion strategy: Have a clear idea of goals. pic.twitter.com/s4COgBXzcK.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

At our museum, Pinterest is a primary tool for brainstorming and sharing ideas. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Are there opportunities for explicit knowledge-sharing that are rooted in photographs and videos?

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people. My experience is here.

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NTEN Communities of Practice FAQ

NTEN

We had no idea when we introduced our new Communities of Practice (CoPs ) engagement model that there were be so many questions and concerns, and I think this may be that very "once in a while". The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first idea was to use Ready/Talk and its screencapture features. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.). I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples.