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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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Knowledge Management and Global Development: Who, What, and How

Forum One

This week, I attended a working group meeting at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs that focused on knowledge management in the international development sector. read more.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. We see lost knowledge gobbling up time and money in our own organization and in the offices of our clients all the time. So I suspect Phil's approach to knowledge management is going to become more popular in the next few years.

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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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How LMS is changing the Way the Manufacturing Industry Trains People?

Gyrus

The LMS focuses on knowledge management. It gathers, organizes, and analyzes the information related to an industry on documents and people skills.

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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. The Issue Lab knowledge management platform also offers services to help your organization curate, preserve, and share the knowledge assets that are important to your mission and audience.

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How Does Your Website Redesign Fit Into Your Larger Digital Ecosystem?

Forum One

Practically speaking, digital ecosystem tools can fit into the following categories: Public platforms : Websites, social media channels, mobile applications Engagement tools : CRM, email marketing, advocacy, and donor management tools Knowledge management platforms : Intranets, wikis, communities of practice Project management tools : Agile development (..)

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2011 Nonprofit Day

Amy Sample Ward

Noah Flower , Director of Knowledge Management, Monitor Institute. Presenters: Amy Sample Ward , Membership Director, NTEN (moderator). Alfredo De Avila , Senior Program Associate, Applied Research Center . Rashad Robinson , Executive Director, ColorOfChange. Related Links : CompassPoint. Nonprofit Day. Resources and case studies.

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Eight Principles of Sustainable Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

When the external community sees your staff using a community platform, a knowledge management resource, or another shared online space it says to them that the organization actually cares and is invested in both collaboration and the resource itself. And that is the best tone you can set!

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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. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting.

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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

Other organizations may build a style guide into their instance of confluence or Notion which are internal knowledge management systems. This is a good option if you just want to get something up and running quickly. If you want to create a more comprehensive style guide, you can use a tool like InVision App or Webflow.

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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. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade.

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Lee Bryant at #KMUK10

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. David Wilcox will be spending the day helping show folks understand and get started with various social media tools. I wanted to share a few notes that struck me from Lee Bryant of headshift out of his opening talk. From Lee Bryant: KM = sense making.

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How to Solve Problems: Google vs. George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Allegiance Group

Analytics Business Strategy and Process Current Affairs Knowledge Management Marketing Studies Technology' George Bush Intercontinental Airport’s goal was let’s have happier passengers. I’m not going to argue which goal is more legitimate, but in fact, both solutions meet their goals.

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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. It was immediately clear that one phone call could resolve many problems before our clients needed to see an attorney, be referred to one of our partners, or go to court.

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4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Forum One

Consider how these various elements connect and work together to vocalize your mission and brand.

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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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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

." Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?"

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massnonprofit news ::

AFP Blog

massnonprofit news :: : "Knowledge management—also called KM—is the process of choosing and using tools and systems to effectively gather, organize, share, and use information, of any topic and type, within and between individuals, organizations, and groups." ''via Blog this'''

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Bullet Journaling for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It doesn’t fully replace digital tools for project management (especially when many people are involved or code is developed), or organizational knowledge management tools. For me, BuJo makes time management and planning more enjoyable. BuJo is a personal tool.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce.org marketing team. She oversees trends research reports on higher education and nonprofit topics as well as qualitative research and knowledge management.

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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce Customer and Market Insights team. She oversees trends research reports on higher education and nonprofit topics as well as qualitative research and knowledge management.

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Innovation, KPIs and Jerry Maguire

Allegiance Group

Analytics Knowledge Management Nonprofits Uncategorized' What really mattered was how quickly he figured out if his new agency was going to be a success, and if not, take another risk and try a new line of work….

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Informal vs. Formal Learning: Creating a Blend!

Gyrus

Let’s look at below tips through, which you can incorporate informal learning in to your formal learning and development programs: Provide a knowledge management tool/platform for employees to share their learning after they attend a formal training/learning program.

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Member Spotlight: Dave Ryan of CiviCore

Tech Soup Blog

Those solutions are centered around areas such as: Case, Client and Contact Relationship Management, Program Research and Evaluation, Information or Knowledge Management, Collaboration systems for multi-affiliate or multi agency partner organizations. read more.

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Find me in my “office”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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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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Essential Strategies for Your Foundation’s Next Website Redesign

Forum One

How do these various elements connect and work together to vocalize your mission and brand?

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Adene represents the foundation’s learning about networks, organizational growth strategies and knowledge management. The Jim Joseph Foundation focuses on the Jewish education of youth and young adults based in San Francisco. Adene can be reached at asacks at jimjosephfoundation.org.

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New Intranet for Feeding America | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

Feeding America engaged Beaconfire to help them develop a knowledge management strategy and redesign their Intranet. Feeding America needed a new site and system that would allow them to promote 2-way communications and knowledge sharing between national staff and network members. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0

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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. Editing this blog, he produces content about the opportunities for using new technologies and networked strategies that emphasize openness, collaboration, and leverage to achieve greater social impact.

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My Panel Introduction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I spoke about how useful a blog was for my own personal knowledge management working as a technology consultant. I attempted to live blog my introduction to demonstrate how easy it is to blog. The second time we ran our panel the Internet connection worked. I talked about how I use my blog to "work things out" for myself.

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SharePoint Server 2010 Learning Resources

Tech Soup Blog

Therefore, if you're evaluating SharePoint 2010 as a possible answer to your organization's knowledge management needs, some of the resources below might help you to make your decision and learn how to use it. Expert SharePoint Consulting from mindSHIFT.

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? technologies for knowledge sharing???

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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.”

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Using our heads

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

But Sharon Richardson in a thought-provoking post on her Joining Dots blog proposes that the emphasis on documents of any sort is a very limited view of knowledge management.I think Knowledge Management should be replaced with Knowledge Support.

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On Vacation!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I'm sure when I get back I'll just be bursting with thought about software development, tools, problem solving, knowledge management. So there will probably be no posts on this site until my return in Mid January. but while I'm gone, hopefully I'll fill my head with new sights and sounds.

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NTEN Community Update: CoP Transition

NTEN

The Community Technology CoP and the Knowledge Management CoP have both already taken advantage of the newly available monthly calls. They are free for everyone, regardless of NTEN member status, and a great way to learn from other members of the community.

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Call for Abstracts: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy in South Africa

Forum One

The other topic that strikes me is 'Developing Knowledge Management Expertise in Third World Countries.' In our work these days with non-profits and large government agencies alike, changing the culture within is often harder than any technical implementation.

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Build Your Own Social Network : Elgg

Allegiance Group

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