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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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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Why am I excited about this project? Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Laura Quinn, Director of Partnerships and Knowledge. As Idealware’s Director of Partnerships and Knowledge, she works with partners and helps guide content into high quality resources. Read more or register at [link].

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. I call it "humanitarian electronics recycling and refurbishment." " Perhaps I should explain.

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Games for Change Is Seeking A Community Manager

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Games for Change is looking to hire a community manager to manage a variety of online projects, primarily the Knowledge Network. This is a resource directory and social networking space for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, a 4-year funded project going into its 2nd year. For detailed info see here.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Are there opportunities for explicit knowledge-sharing that are rooted in photographs and videos? Are there opportunities for explicit knowledge-sharing that are rooted in photographs and videos? Projects'

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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