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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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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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?” You might call what we’re doing Big Knowledge, or Big (Qualitative) Data.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. 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. Why is learning the new important?

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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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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. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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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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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the content of a DEI style guide will depend on the specific needs of your organization. Other organizations may build a style guide into their instance of confluence or Notion which are internal knowledge management systems. What should be included in a DEI style guide?

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