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While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. I just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. MORE
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. We heard presentations by two KM thought leaders: Last 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. MORE
Expereince, evidence and knowledge tell us that policy only changes through inspiring action (not just presenting facts). . Evidence is not the same thing as Knowledge – Evidence is usually taken to mean “hard” demonstrable, measurable things. Knowledge (i.e MORE
In the last post I talked about the difficulties we see organizations have in managing knowledge. In my experience, for information to be truly organizational knowledge, at the very minimum four things must be true: It must be written down so it cannot walk out the door. MORE
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Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. MORE
Knowledge sharing adds another layer of social media value to the organization, a feedback loop for your social media efforts, an integrated approach to being social. Knowledge sharing results in stronger organizations that have a broader knowledge base about its online stakeholders and a wide net of useful information to meet organizational goals Debra Askanase. Partner. Socialbrite. MORE
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Community: Local Government Knowledge Network. In May 2010 ICMA and the Alliance launched the Local Government Knowledge Network. Yet, non-members add to the conversation and bring more value to the Knowledge Network. Check them out: Alliance’s Knowledge Network home page. MORE
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
John Udell articulates a reason why screencasting is really cool: In my talk I suggested that this kind of unconscious transmission of tacit knowledge may be a key rationale for the practice of pair programming. Two programmers, working side by side, exchange tacit knowledge by osmosis. MORE
Consider how you can support more robust knowledge sharing. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. What is a knowledge sharing network? Knowledge is a lofty word. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. MORE
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Twitter is Not a Social Network is a really thought provoking riff by Gideon Rosenblatt it also has links to some interesting data analysis of twitter. I agree with the basic trust of the post and it has triggered some clarity about the nature of designing advocacy networks online and offline. I have riffed before on the concept that advocacy networks are not social networks (people that worked on climate change do not want to socialize with each other and may even hate each other.) MORE
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We have a very exciting knowledge share coming in August. Content people! Groundwire Board Member Emily Warn leads writing workshops with her. Two Pens co-founder Cynthia Hartwig and they have graciously offered to. present a social media content workshop free of charge to the Groundwire community. Building a useful social network requires more than. just putting up a Facebook page, opening a Twitter account, or even. designing a great strategy. Every strategy succeeds or fails based on. MORE
These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches. I used their problems to share a few points about how to begin to address those challenges, holding the space for other participants to add their knowledge. MORE
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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. And one major way knowledge is lost is that the documents in which the relevant knowledge can be found are not easily retrievable. So I suspect Phil's approach to knowledge management is going to become more popular in the next few years. MORE
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Knowledge Related Topics Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 30, 2013
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.
SocialFish
JULY 31, 2015
In the age of knowledge an organization’s learning capabilities constitute competitive necessity. Learning,” however, is not synonymous with mastery or passive knowledge. From The Demand Perspective Leading From the Outside.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 20, 2017
Take a quick quiz to test and refresh your knowledge of trends in Charitable Giving. We’re halfway through 2017 but that doesn’t mean we’re done learning from 2016 just yet!
Idealware
AUGUST 3, 2015
There was no need to ensure that anyone else could use Idealware’s growing base of knowledge because I was the entire organization. Knowledge management has become an important part of Idealware’s evolution. Speaking of knowledge, we have an article on that: [link].)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days.
NTEN
JUNE 10, 2011
Consider how you can support more robust knowledge sharing. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. What is a knowledge sharing network? Knowledge is a lofty word. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic.
NetWits
APRIL 3, 2012
Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report.
Wild Apricot Blog
AUGUST 23, 2012
We're conducting an online survey to find out what topics we should address in our Membership Knowledge Hub this Fall. Membership Knowledge HubWe hope you'll participate!
NetWits
APRIL 4, 2012
These insights were gleaned from over 3,500 respondents to a survey sent out by Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge. Social Media 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Report Blackbaud Common Knowledge NTEN Social networking for nonprofits
GroundWire
JULY 8, 2011
We have a very exciting knowledge share coming in August. Content people! Groundwire Board Member Emily Warn leads writing workshops with her. Two Pens co-founder Cynthia Hartwig and they have graciously offered to. present a social media content workshop free of charge to the Groundwire community. Building a useful social network requires more than. just putting up a Facebook page, opening a Twitter account, or even. designing a great strategy. Every strategy succeeds or fails based on.
Wild Apricot Blog
APRIL 20, 2016
Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up! Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization. management membership events evaluation test apricot
NetWits
APRIL 6, 2012
While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. I just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches. I used their problems to share a few points about how to begin to address those challenges, holding the space for other participants to add their knowledge.
Wild Apricot Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
Here's an update of new resources that are now available in our Membership Knowledge Hub. Resources membership
Wild Apricot Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Introducing a new online resource "Hub" for volunteers and staff of small membership organizations. Check out articles and "how-to" guides on membership management, communications, event management and much more. Resources membership Wild Apricot
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
As the conversation moved east around the globe, we witnessed an explosion of storytelling knowledge. Special guest Shradha Sharma, founder of YourStory.com , shared more valuable knowledge. To mine all of the knowledge shared, TechSoup created a Storify for the whole event.
Network-Centric Advocacy
JANUARY 13, 2012
Twitter is Not a Social Network is a really thought provoking riff by Gideon Rosenblatt it also has links to some interesting data analysis of twitter. I agree with the basic trust of the post and it has triggered some clarity about the nature of designing advocacy networks online and offline. I have riffed before on the concept that advocacy networks are not social networks (people that worked on climate change do not want to socialize with each other and may even hate each other.)
NTEN
MAY 17, 2012
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2009
By announcing we're doing open content college textbooks with Flat World Knowledge, a cool for-profit startup. We got great feedback about our announcement a couple of weeks ago about doing open content textbooks for K-12, thanks for funding from the US Department of Education. How were we going to top that one? I mentioned meeting one of their key people at BYU last month in a recent Beneblog post.
NTEN
APRIL 3, 2012
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Wild Apricot Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Here are the key highlights from our recent Membership Knowledge Hub survey - offering direction for resources we'll add to the Hub in the coming year. Membership Knowledge Hub; online surveys
SocialFish
OCTOBER 29, 2012
How meaningful and reliable are these numbers in the knowledge age? AMSA and others in our study illustrate some of the new capabilities that enable success in the knowledge age and a set of different measures for assessing it.
Wild Apricot Blog
APRIL 20, 2016
Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up! Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization. management membership events evaluation test apricot
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 24, 2014
Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification -- Martin H. Fischer. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 17, 2014
Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification -- Martin H. Fischer. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Quotes Management Quotes
Influence
OCTOBER 13, 2011
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. We heard presentations by two KM thought leaders: Last 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.
NTEN
JUNE 13, 2011
blackbaud common knowledge Community facebook online fundraising research Social Media social media fundraising Fundraising[Editor's note: the following is an excerpt from the 2011 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , sponsored by NTEN , CommonKnowledge , and Blackbaud.
Tech Soup Blog
APRIL 17, 2012
NTEN, Common Knowledge, and Blackbaud just released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. blackbaud NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report Common Knowledge
AFP Blog
APRIL 10, 2013
Google Adds Non-Profit Information To Knowledge Graph, Gives Them A Boost With Google Follow Buttons | TechCrunch : Today, Google announced that it’s now filling up its Knowledge Graph with information about nonprofits, which will help people find the organization they’d like to check out and potentially donate to.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
John Udell articulates a reason why screencasting is really cool: In my talk I suggested that this kind of unconscious transmission of tacit knowledge may be a key rationale for the practice of pair programming. Two programmers, working side by side, exchange tacit knowledge by osmosis.
Beaconfire Wire
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
Much has changed since humanity acknowledged the word knowledge and started to classify the various subject matters into categories and taxonomies of learned disciplines. The definition of knowledge is outside the scope of this article because of simple reasons.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2006
In the last post I talked about the difficulties we see organizations have in managing knowledge. In my experience, for information to be truly organizational knowledge, at the very minimum four things must be true: It must be written down so it cannot walk out the door.
SocialFish
JUNE 21, 2011
Community: Local Government Knowledge Network. In May 2010 ICMA and the Alliance launched the Local Government Knowledge Network. Yet, non-members add to the conversation and bring more value to the Knowledge Network. Check them out: Alliance’s Knowledge Network home page.
Network-Centric Advocacy
AUGUST 5, 2009
Great video from World Science Festival link from Associated Knowledge World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Are you a trivia master? Or a security enthusiast? Put your security smarts to the test and take the weekly security quiz brought to you by Symantec !
Frogloop
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Common Knowledge's Rapid Donor Cultivation (RDC) program attempts to wed these two strategies by focusing on both the long-term ROI and the elapsed time to the first gift.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2005
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. And one major way knowledge is lost is that the documents in which the relevant knowledge can be found are not easily retrievable. So I suspect Phil's approach to knowledge management is going to become more popular in the next few years.
Network-Centric Advocacy
JULY 23, 2013
Expereince, evidence and knowledge tell us that policy only changes through inspiring action (not just presenting facts). . Evidence is not the same thing as Knowledge – Evidence is usually taken to mean “hard” demonstrable, measurable things. Knowledge (i.e
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 30, 2016
Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?”
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