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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. the possible solutions.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I've been searching for that for a half an hour. -- See, your problem is you try to be totally organized, so when something is misfiled, it might as well be gone. And it's a significant story as your organization starts to think about knowledge management. He saved my hide. -- I can't believe it, I told Phil.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

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. In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce.

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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.” That is the much more challenging and important problem. How do we do that?

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? The path to scale requires excellence– but not across the board.

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Member Spotlight: Dave Ryan of CiviCore

Tech Soup

We accomplish this by: developing information solutions for clients and the social sector industry conducting research on the use of information to support the social sector consulting with social sector organizations regarding information problems. read more.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results. The case goes like this: We want to provide knowledge and expertise. Many people in their audience will absorb knowledge better from informative (and shiny!) for an organization.

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