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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Their hook is that with the superfast Google search technology lurking behind your email reader, there is no longer any need to worry about filing your mail in the correct folders. And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. Don't organize, search!

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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.” ” Documentation and learning are the treatment for organizational amnesia.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn's thoughts about limiting the membership to nonprofit tech workers whose e-mail addresses are originating from a.org and whose organization is a 501c3. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada.

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Friday Links: July 14

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Even though mail clients are highly configurable, this has been the standard view of many users. Email: Knowledge Management Speaking of which. I've commented before on the problem of building truly organizational knowledge to minimize the impact of individual staff departures from your non-profit. Gets you thinking!

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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