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2011 Nonprofit Day

Amy Sample Ward

This panel will discuss the larger picture of movement building, nonprofit organizations, and what we can learn about recent events that change what we do and how we interact with the world we’re trying to impact. Noah Flower , Director of Knowledge Management, Monitor Institute. Related Links : CompassPoint.

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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. In her keynote, Jane gave us the big picture and framework about what social learning is and why it is important. Why is learning the new important?

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Evernote for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

There is another type of information and memory management that relates to the everyday memories and knowledge management of your staff, volunteers, and other supporters. Could also use it as a repository for event pictures. Events: Great place to chronicle your events, possibly to track attendees or feedback post-event.

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa.

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Not another banjo joke!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Maybe this concept is the source of the frustration - instead of two disjunct information streams, perhaps we need a single collaborative knowledge support effort here. Knowledge Management is often looked at as a an effort lying snugly within the organizations' boundaries.